The UNESCO Chair in e-Learning of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has initiated a project devoted to the promotion of Open Educational Resources using an open repository, the institutional Open Access Repository of the University, to collect and centralize key resources about Open Educational Resources.

The project, named MetaOER, involves the use of web 2.0 collaborative tools such as del.icio.us to provide an effective way to locate, tag, and share the original location of existing OER documents available all over the web,  facilitating the process of evaluating and adding them to the open repository. The aim being that they will always be available in the same place to the OER community, teachers, and other interested parties.

The project is lead by Dr. Julià Minguillón, Academic Director of the UNESCO Chair at UOC, and it is the intention of the group to give a free workshop after this year's Open Ed conference, 2-4 November, in Barcelona, Spain, to offer the conference attendees the opportunity to attend an activity related to the contents of the conference.

 

18 August 2010