Welcome to the blog site of this collaborative project, which is examining best practice and future directions in the provision of open educational resources (OER) to the Irish higher education sector.
This project has been funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning from November 2014-May 2015. The project aims to examine existing use and re-use of OER and to make evidence-based recommendations for the future provision of these resources to the sector.
More precisely, the project aims to examine how open educational resources can be utilised, developed and shared in order to enhance teaching and learning in Irish higher education. Three research questions have been developed as follows:
1. How are open educational resources currently being used and shared in Irish higher education institutions and what can we learn from such experiences?
2. What do we know from the National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR) experience about how OER might be shared, utilised, maintained and developed?
3. How can the digitisation of teaching and learning resources be ingested, managed and discovered using local repositories?
We will be posting updates about the project and its progress to this site and you are welcome to contact us with feedback or comments.
Learning Resources and Open Access 