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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Open Educational Resources (OERs), a term coined in a UNESCO workshop in 2002, are part of a worldwide movement to promote and support sustainable educational development. Raise your profile by allowing your resources to be improved by other users and attributed back to you. How we can help!

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

This considered the ‘demand for research from business’ alongside the ‘dual support’ system of university funding, with infrastructure funded from the block grant and funding for research projects dependent on grants and the Research Councils. Funding for them may be uncertain.

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Want a job at Cambridge?

SRHE

Fixed-term contracts have long been the norm for research-only contracts, which are usually dependent on short-term funding from a external grant. A Report on this requirement was published on 15 May 2024, recommending that academic-related officers should no longer be subject to the EJRA and the age of retirement should be raised to 69.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

That expectation was wrong in 2002, and it’s even worse now, as this grim report shows. They often lack access to offices, professional development, research funds, and opportunities to collaborate with peers or vote in faculty meetings. They are hired on a per-class, per-semester basis.

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