Assisting in the search for OER evidence

The need to locate and evaluate evidence around OER has been a consistent theme at this week's Open Ed 2011 conference in Utah. It was identified at the top of the top 3 noted by Josh Jarrett in his keynote this morning. Let me now plug the Evidence Hub which is in the early stages of playing its role, but is already gathering useful information on OER claims and identifying a wide range of evidence in support of potential solutions to the OER challenges.



Some useful links ...

• YouTube video of how it works (complete beginner's guide) - also above
• A step by step guide to getting in, adding your project, learning about the challenges, claims and most important, how to contribute evidence
• In the run up to Open Ed 2011 ten main challenges facing OER, identified from the information already identified