The OER Knowledge Cloud: Open Educational Resources: The Challenges Of �usability’ And Copyright Clearance

Open educational resources: The challenges of ‘usability’ and copyright clearance

Published	2012
Journal	Planet Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 51-54

ABSTRACT

AbstractThis article reflects on the experiences of Keele University's participation in repurposing teaching materials for open access as part of the GEES consortium within the Higher Education Academy/ JISC Open Educational Resources (OER) pilot project. The team at Keele contributed over 100 separate OER, principally PowerPoint slide sets, reading lists and activity sheets across a number of climate change and sustainability-related themes. This paper explores some of the challenges that arose in the ‘repurposing’ of existing teaching materials for open access, including the issues of end-user usability and obtaining copyright clearance for image intensive resources. The paper concludes with advice for those interested in making existing or new resources suitable for open access.

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Rights	Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited
DOI	10.11120/plan.2012.00250051
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