1. POERUP
Gráinne Conole,
University of Leicester
EFQUEL Innovation Forum
Granada, Spain
5th – 7th September2012

2. Partners
• Sero (coordinator)
• University of Leicester
• Open University of the Netherlands
• Althabasca University
• University of Lorraine
• SCIENTER
• EDEN

3. Context and rationale
• Over ten years of the OER movement
• Hundreds of OER repositories worldwide
• Evaluation shows lack of uptake by teachers
and learners
• Shift from development to community
building and articulation of OER practice

4. Focus
• Stimulating the uptake of OER through policy
• Building on previous initiatives (such as OPAL
and Olnet)
• Through country reports and case studies
• Evaluate successful OER communities

5. Outputs
• Inventory of more than 100 OER initiatives
• 11 country reports and 13 mini-reports
• 7 in-depth case studies
• 3 EU-wide policy papers
• 7 options brief packs for EU nations/regions

6. Progress
• Country reports
– Draft country reports available
– http://poerup.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page
• Case studies
– Identified
– Methodology chosen (Social Network Analysis)
– Instruments being development (Survey plus semi-
structured interviews)

7. Country reports: key themes
• Diversity of educational contexts and maturity
of internet provision and use of e-learning
• Differences in policy support and funding for
OER initiatives
• Diversity from basic OER awareness to OER
maturity and embedding
• Few national OER initiatives

8. Emergent themes
• Shift from development to OER practices
• Broader notion of open practices – open
learning, teaching and research
• Use of social and participatory media to foster
OER communities

9. UK Country Report
• Significant funding from JISC/HEA – three
phase OER programme with around 100 OER
initiatives
• Individual fellowships through SCORE and
Olnet funding
• Institutionally supported initiatives
• Related work: iTunesU and MOOCs
Ming Nie

10. UK Country Report
• Funding mainly from government – top-down
• Funding mainly on production/producers, little
on end-users or impact on learning
• Mainly HE/FE, little school-based
• Most institutions don’t have an OER strategy
• Lots on cascading and transferring of experience
• Most institutions have an OER repository

11. Further information
http://www.poerup.info/