Title: OSTRICH (OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation Cascading across HEIs)

Speakers: Vic Jenkins and Alex Lydiate, LTEO, University of Bath

Abstract:

OSTRICH is a year-long JISC-funded project led by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester. The project explores the transfer and cascade of the key outcomes of a previous institutional OER pilot project at Leicester (OTTER) to two partner institutions (University of Bath and University of Derby).

The progress of the OSTRICH project so far at the University of Bath will be described by Vic Jenkins (Learning Technologist in the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office). This will include highlights and challenges encountered, discussions around IPR for learning and teaching resources, and the sustainability of processes for managing the release of OERs on an institutional basis.

Alex Lydiate (Educational Software and Systems Developer) will present an overview of the design of the Drupal-based OSTRICH distributed repository and the rationale behind it. This will include an outline of the proposed strategy for representing the OSTRICH OER records on the Web.

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