The EDOR Project has been a collaborative project between the GEES Subject Centre, the University of Plymouth Learning and Teaching Directorate and University of Plymouth Colleges. It follows on from the success of the JISC/HEA-funded Open Educational Resources (OER) Project run by the GEES Subject Centre in 2009–10 on C-change in GEES: Open licensing of climate change and sustainability resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental SciencesCitation1.
As part of the JISC/HEA Phase 2 Open Materials for Accredited Courses (OMAC)Citation2 strand, the EDOR project’s aim was to establish a collection of innovative staff and educational development OER for sharing and reuse across the HE and HE in FE community. The OERs range from the discipline-specific (taken from GEES Subject Centre workshops), through to generic staff development (for example, how to teach plagiarism to students) and materials for those delivering to (or working as) HE in FE staff. The full list of EDOR resources made available through Jorum is as follows:
Good practice in running HE in FE-managing a programme
Professional Identities and Practice Styles
Reflective Writing Workshop
Linking research and teaching in Higher Education
Data Collection for Pedagogic Research
Academic Dissemination
Plagiarism Interactive Tutorials
Blended Learning
Assessment — smarter by design
Exploring the motivation and skills of entrepreneurs
An introduction to OER for the Geography, Earth and Environmental (GEES) disciplines
How to promote employability in Geography and cognate degrees
Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions
Networking Presentation with Verbal Business Card Icebreaker
An Intrapreneur’s Story
Selling ideas, an enterprising activity for many modules
Two lectures to introduce the concepts of Intrapreneurship
You are on your own: Ice Breaker Contents
Embedding Business Start-up in the University Curriculum
Student Progression and Transfer (SPAT) Materials
The OMAC strand projects have investigated the repurposing and development of OER that support continuing professional development, either through HEA-accredited programmes, such as the PG-CAP for early career lecturers, or through the professional recognition route of gaining HEA Fellowship on the basis of the individual’s experience in learning and teaching. The HEA’s Professional Recognition Scheme was originally developed to raise the status of teaching in HE, and provides individuals with the opportunity to gain recognition at three different levels: associate, fellow or senior fellow. In particular, the Scheme is referenced to the UK Professional Standards FrameworkCitation3 (PSF) and, as such, the EDOR project has been investigating the links between CPD material and the PSF and how these links might be translated and incorporated into information about the EDOR resources.
Further information on the EDOR Project can be found at http://edor.org.uk/, including the final project report.
EDOR materials can be searched for on JorumCitation4 using the following tags: #UKOER, #OMAC, #UKPSF and #EDOR.