bidding for the Open Educational Resources (OER) programme is now open.

In partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), we will be running a pilot programme to support the release of existing educational resources. The goal of the programme is to make a wide range of learning resources freely available and easily discoverable so that they may be routinely re-used by both educators and learners. There will be three separate project strands to the pilot programme:

- Institutional: resources released across an entire institution (Total funding of £1.50 million available, up to £250,000 per project)

- Individual: resources released by individual academic staff (Total funding of £200,000 available, up to £20,000 per project)

- Subject: resources released by departments, faculties and schools within a variety of institutions, supported by Academy Subject Centres and Professional Bodies or subject associations (Total funding of £3 million available, up to £250,000 per project)

A community briefing event will be held on 26 January 2009 at Aston University in Birmingham, which will enable potential bidders to find out more about the funding opportunities associated with this call.

The deadline for proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon on 4 March 2009.

Please note: OER is a HEFCE funded initiative and, as such, only HEFCE funded institutions are eligible to lead OER projects, non-HEFCE funded institutions will be able to participate in a project as a member of a consortium.

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For queries in relation to any of the three strands please use the following email addresses:

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