Reward & Recognition

[Simon Thomson]

In order to encourage staff to "want" to offer materials as OER what type of reward and recognition system could be implimented? In theory we could consider OER material as a publication, how might we be able to formalise this more?

[Lou McGill]

Hi Simon

just wanted to remind you of the Good Intemtions Business cases document which identifies the 'benefits' (which is how we interpreted the concept of business case) to a range of stakeholders - inlcuding individuals. It identifies some of the benefits that come from sharing in a range of ways (including open sharing).

http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/265/

Agree also that some formal recognition and reward is also very very helpful.

Lou

[Simon Thomson]

I would like the sector to recognise the "publication" of OER material in a similar way that it is with a written paper publication. Would be interesting to see whether the UK OER projects could formulate a system which we could all buy in to.

[Nick Sheppard]

Just came across this site at Loughborough University which may contain some useful resources - Rights and rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories (It's a JISC funded project):

http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk/index.php?section=21