These are the slides from my "end-of-fellowship" presentation I gave at the OU on 31 May 2012. They contain the broad brush strokes of very initial findings from my TOUCANS research into UK HEI views on the OERu concept. More detailed findings to follow over the coming month.

1. UK HEIs and the OERu
End-of-SCORE fellowship
presentation at the OU, 31 May 2012
Gabi Witthaus

2. Introduction
Testing the OER
university Concept:
a National Study
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/7188563020/

3. Research methodology
• Interviews with OERu network partner
members (14)
• Interviews with UK HEI thought leaders (9)
• Survey among UK HEIs (42 respondents)
• Weightings allocated by “expert group” to
generate “compatibility” benchmarking tool
• Sample institutional compatibility scores
calculated

4. The survey
Bournemouth University University of Bath,
Coventry University University of Cambridge
De Montfort University University of Huddersfield,
Institute of Education University of Hull,
King's College London University of Leeds,
Leeds Met University (2) University of Leicester (5)
Loughborough University University of Manchester
Middlesex University University of Nottingham (2)
Newcastle University University of Oxford
Open University (4) University of Southampton
Southampton Solent University of Surrey
University Plus eight others

5. The respondents (N=42)

6. Is your institution in the OERu network?

7. The interviews
• Leicester: Christine Fyfe (PVC), Dave Hall
(Registrar), Prof. Grainne Conole (Director, BDRA)
• OU: Andrew Law (Dir, Open Media)
• Salford: Prof. Martin Hall (VC)
• Edinburgh: Prof. Jeff Haywood (CIO)
• Nottingham: Prof. Wyn Morgan (Dir, Teaching &
Learning)
• JISC: Amber Thomas
• JISC (personal capacity): David Kernohan

8. Response theme (1)

9. Response theme (2)

12. With many thanks to…
Andy Lane, Vivien Rolf, Terese Bird, Grainne
Conole, Christine Fyfe, Fred Garnett, Graham
Gibbs, Dave Hall, Martin Hall, Jeff Haywood,
David Kernohan, Andrew Law, Wayne
Mackintosh, Patrick McAndrew, Angela
Murphy, Ming Nie, Amber Thomas and
Stephen Walker for all the help and support in
carrying out this research.

13. www.toucansproject.wordpress.com