1 day event - 26 October 2010 from 10:00 until 16:00

This one day event will showcase work by Subject Centres from the Subject Strand of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Open Educational Resources (OER) Phase One programme (14/08), including:

• Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre (www.health.heacademy.ac.uk)
• Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (www.medev.ac.uk)
• UK Centre for Bioscience (www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk)
• UK Centre for Legal Education (www.ukcle.ac.uk)

The day will bring together colleagues from throughout the UK to discuss the key challenges facing OER in the discipline context, and its long-term sustainability within the Higher Education (HE sector.  The aim of the conference is to provide feedback and encourage discussion on the lessons and strategies developed for discovering, developing, enhancing and converting educational resources into OER.