Into the wild – Technology for open educational resources

Amber has worked in ICT in education for 14 years, working on JISC Information Strategies Initiative, Becta's National Grid for Learning, Becta's Ferl service, JISC-funded West Midlands Share Project at the University of Worcester, then JISC and now in a service management role within Warwick University. Amber manages the academic technologies team at the University of Warwick, which includes responsibility for elearning tools advice, the VLE/LMS, coursework management, support for digital humanities, and collaborating on research data management and academic epublishing. Until late 2012 she worked at JISC www.jisc.ac.uk, where she focussed on digital infrastructure for learning materials, she had oversight of Jorum, the national repository www.jorum.ac.uk and and she was the programme manager leading the OER Rapid Innovation projects designed to meet key use cases around open educational content. Lorna has worked in education technology and interoperability standards for fifteen years, and for the last ten years has been an Assistant Director of the Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS). During this time she has been responsible for coordinating and delivering technical support for a wide range of JISC development programmes including the Exchange for Learning Programme, the Digital Repositories and Preservation Programme, the UK OER Programmes and the OER Rapid Innovation Programme. She has also represented the UK Higher and Further Education sector on a number of national and international standards bodies including the British Standards Institute, IMS Global, and CEN / ISSS Learning Technologies viii Workshop. Her areas of expertise include learning resource description and management and digital infrastructure for open educational resources. Phil has worked supporting the use of learning technology at Universities for eighteen years, and worked with CETIS in some facility for the last ten. At CETIS he has been responsible for delivering support to JISC funded projects in areas such as metadata, resource description, resource management and open educational resources. He has represented UK Higher and Further Education in a number of technical specification and standardization initiatives, most recently through the technical working group of the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. He is a Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, where his main areas of work concern resource description and management, open educational resources (OERs) and the evaluation of computer based resources for engineering and physical science education. Martin has worked in educational technology for twelve years and has worked with the Centre for Educational …