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THIS WIKI PROVIDES AN ARCHIVE OF PROJECT WORK WITH THE HE ACADEMY/JISC UKOER PILOT PROGRAMME BUT IS NOT BEING UPDATED. THE NEW WIKI DOES CONTAIN EVERYTHING THAT IS ON THIS WIKI

Welcome to the OER Synthesis and Evaluation Project Wiki.

This project provides objective, ongoing evaluation and synthesis of the HEFCE funded pilot programme which is being run in collaboration between the Higher Education Academy and JISC through three linked activities:

A generic framework tool provided a strong foundation and common language for collating data from projects. The framework allowed us to structure our interventions with projects, and was also used a means of evaluating the 'openness' of their outcomes. The framework was developed in collaboration with both projects and the support teams.
Strand-specific evaluation activities will address how different communities and cultures are progressing towards openness in their shared practice. These will recruit mixed methods to examine social, technical, pedagogical and legal / organisational issues in each strand, and provide a synthesis account detailing barriers and opportunities for change.
The final synthesis report will include recommendations to the funders and to the stakeholders represented in the three strands of the programme, and a version of the framework tool for use by the sector to audit progress towards more open practices around educational resources.

Project team

Led by Glasgow Caledonian University

Prof. Allison Littlejohn Principle Investigator
Dr Isobel Falconer Individual strand synthesis
Dr Karen Smith individual strand synthesis

with help and support from

Dr Colin Milligan
Claire Carroll

Consultants

Helen Beetham Subject strand synthesis and Evaluation
Lou McGill Institutional strand synthesis and project management

Pilot programme Synthesis and Evaluation report

The following pages supplement the final report

Project method and approaches

Barriers and enablers

Synthesis of Strands

Framework documents

Several different frameworks have been used to support project evaluation and synthesis of key messages and evidence

Generic Framework

This framework identifies issues and questions about OER Release which shaped the pilot programme and that were raised by the projects as they progressed. This framework was offered to the projects to help them identify their evaluation questions and how they might answer them. It also informs the final pilot programme synthesis framework

Strand frameworks

These three strand frameworks were developed from the generic framework and mapped to each of the projects in that strand. These were shared with projects and many projects used them to map their activities and final outcomes and outputs. These stand frameworks fed back into the generic framework and also in the final Pilot programme synthesis framework (Final versions of these to be added when complete)

Pilot programme synthesis framework

This is the final synthesis framework for the pilot programme and includes outcomes. As project outputs emerge which illustrate and evidence the outcomes these will be added as links.

Resources to support projects

The team have produced a range of guidance documents to support projects as well as links to useful sources available elsewhere

Useful documents and reports

Which Evidence to provide

OER evaluation resources

Presentations

Team Blog

Dissemination activities - synthesis and evaluation work

OER Infokit

The team will be feeding outcomes and lessons learnt from the pilot programme into the OER Infokit. The infokit was launched in April 2010 to provide an accessible resource which aims to both inform and explain OERs and the issues surrounding them for managers, academics and those in learning support. Links to pilot programme project outputs are available from the infokit and are also included in our own SynthesisOfStrands pages