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Individual Responses

Adult and Higher Education

  • Show case of best practices in open eg provided by Open University
  • Dealing with accessibility issues. eg slow bandwidth while still being innovative
  • Sustainability
  • Examples that model good practice with all nuances
  • metadata - how to collect, share resources (using metadata standards)
  • better hardware/software support for staff working in educational technologies
  • infrastructure & tech support for alternative systems: eg moodle, drupal, mediawiki
  • support for teachers for getting material online. Lower effort required for academics
  • better support for sandboxing / trialling technologies / softwares
  • Programming staff
  • continuing conversation and collaboration
  • online instand sharing of resources (working on and accessing the same document)
  • Opportunities to share stories with colleagues
  • work on project as a group online
  • overcome geographical distances (especially between blocks)
  • More open source forums / conferences at all educational levels

School Sector

  • Practical Guides
    • How to find OER - search engines
    • How licences support OER in others
  • Government funding requirement that all material produced will fit (creative commons / non-commercial)
  • National Curriculum
  • Professional Development funding embedded with technology
  • supply of hardware/ software
  • gateway/repositary for Q&A and risk management
  • personnel / student work repositary
  • lack of understanding of copyright and alternatives to copyright material
  • Q4. Requirements, Resources, Skillsets
    • More vibrant discussions
    • Need to engage policy decision makers
    • Governments to start taking leadership


Pedagogy - Policy - Processes - Skills - Procurement - Other