File:POERUP D6.4 Workshops with national OER initiatives.pdf

Executive Summary

The original workplan stipulated three national workshops on OER initiatives, in three of four partner countries: UK, Hungary, Italy and Netherlands.

Following the withdrawal of SCIENTER from the partnership, it was agreed to remove Italy from the list of study countries and with the lack of government interest in OER in Hungary, it was further decide to concentrate the national workshops in the UK and Netherlands.

In the event, three workshops were held in the Netherlands and two in the UK (England), together with separate webinars in Wales and meetings with key stakeholders in Scotland.

The two UK-wide workshops took place at the OER13 and OER14 conferences (March 2013 and April 2014) and the three Netherlands workshops were organized through SURFacademy1 in Enschede and Den Bosch (October 2013) and Heerlen (May 2014). A journal article was produced following the first two Netherlands workshops and the English translation of this is given in full.

The report contains material in Dutch as well as English.