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home > Projects > Current projects > OER TN OER TN: the Open Educational Resources Teachers' Network The Open Educational Resources Teachers' Network (OER TN) is a new initiative led by European Schoolnet (EUN) and supported with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. It consists of a short scoping and feasibility study (January 2008 – September 2009) building on work already done by EUN on federating learning resource repositories both in Europe and internationally. It includes work with a focus group of teachers and two international workshops.The work will seek to: • consolidate existing information on quality criteria; • achieve consensus on internationally usable quality criteria and apply these to OER in stakeholder repositories; • provide recommendations for how stakeholders can develop new mechanisms or a framework within which quality assessments and validations of OER resources can be undertaken by an international network or community of teachers. The feasibility study will also result in a final report that examines the role that existing funding agencies could play in launching such a global teacher network and suggest how an initial test bed or pilot can be taken to scale and sustained long-term. The following organisations have currently agreed to participate in or contribute to the project: CoSN, education.au, the Global Learning Portal, ISKME/OER Commons, Mindset and RELPE. In December 2008, EUN will also launch a Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) for schools. The challenge is to extend this ground breaking work by examining quality criteria for OER in order to promote more effective exchange of learning resources between repositories.
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