*£250,000 funding opportunity
The Higher Education Council for England have committed an initial £5.7 million of funding
for pilot projects to explore the sharing and re-use of learning materials in higher
education.
The goal of the programme is to make learning resources created by those working in
higher education freely available to educators and learners in the sector. These ‘Open
Educational Resources’ are defined as “teaching, learning and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property licence
that permits their free use or re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include
full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software,
and any other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”
(Definition used by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation).
The “subject-based” strand of the funding enables the Subject Centre to work with art /
design / media departments, professional bodies and other relevant organisations to put
forward a consortium bid for project funding of up to £250,000.
Successful bids will work to develop processes to facilitate the release of learning
resources and make these available for use by the subject community. The projects will
begin in April 2009 and run for 12 months.
We would value your views and suggestions for how we might initiate a proposal for a
project that responds to the particular needs of art / design / media higher education. In
particular, we would value your thoughts on the following:
* How could this initiative benefit art / design / media higher education?
* Are there specific themes or aspects of art / design / media higher education that
should be addressed?
* Would you be interested in being involved in the project?
Please send your thoughts to [log in to unmask] by Tuesday 3 February 2009.
* Please note that funding is also available for individual and institutional projects. For
further information about all three strands see:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/detail/OER
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