Open Conference on Open Education/Practical steps, getting started

Moving straight out from the round table discussion on Open Educational Resources, this session was meant to be an opportunity for people to get hands on. It resulted in more continued discussion however, with some practical questions and answers

Links

 * Live video recording
 * Live notes

Discussion points

 * Sharing experiences of finding and adopting/modifying OERs, or of building OERs - Nick Stone (Health Sciences LTU), Emma Yench (Science, Tech, Eng LTU), Ruth Jelley (Business, Eco, Law LTU).
 * Discussion of issues related to finding OERs - what have people tried? Where do they need guidance?
 * Exploration of what can be done with existing material that you want to make available openly
 * How can libraries help? (Simon and Roderick)
 * Demonstration/experimentation of uploading to library e-repository, and discussion of some pitfalls of institutional repositories (Simon, Roderick, Ruth, Leigh)