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OER Steering Group Meeting – Meeting-4 Wednesday 13th January 2010, 10:00-12:30 Location : Queen’s 1C Progress Report on Open Exeter 1.0 Introduction The following is a brief report on the progress of the JISC-funded project on Open Educational Resources (OER). The project, called ‘Open Exeter’ runs for one year from 1st May 2009 to 30th April 2010. This is the 4rd progress report. By way of preparation, you may also find it useful to peruse the 1st, 2nd and 3rd progress reports and the subsequent minutes for the first two reports, available from: http://as.exeter.ac.uk/support/educationenhancementprojects/openexeter/workpackages/projectmanagement/. The format of this report will follow that for the previous three reports. 2.0 Preliminary Outputs As noted in the previous Steering Group Report, an interim report had to be submitted to JISC by 10th November. It is not regarded as a ‘public’ document by JISC and so will not appear on either their or our website. However, it can be accessed from http://people.exeter.ac.uk/tjb202/oer/oer_progress_report_open_exeter-4jisc.pdf. Only people with U/Exeter authentication can access this file. Albeit using JISC’s template, much of the information mirrors that which follows. On 15/12/2009, Tom had a conference call with Heather Williamson (JISC Programmer Manager) and Lou McGill (Institutional OER Synthesis Support) to discuss our interim report. No alarms were raised, indeed they are pleased with our progress and particularly with the very ‘open’ (!) way in which we keep the wider community informed of our activities. We are identified at being at the most cautious end of the spectrum regarding attitudes to IPR challenges and they are both relaxed and very interested in our approach, as part of the overall story JISC are keen to accumulate. JISC are very enthusiastic with our modified plan, whereby Sue Rodway-Dyer will undertake an evaluation of our project and they have proposed that Sue works