{"id":196,"date":"2009-05-26T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T15:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2009\/05\/26\/openspires\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:50:28","slug":"openspires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2009\/05\/26\/openspires\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSpires"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALL is part of a team, led by Oxford University Computing Services<\/a>, that has recently been awarded funding from the JISC\/HE Academy Open Educational Resources Programme<\/a> for the Open Spires project.
\nThe project has two purposes: to increase the amount of learning content (especially audio and video) released from Oxford and to enable the University to investigate the implications of making some of this material available as ‘Open Content’ under a Creative Commons<\/a> or other suitable license. This means that quality educational content will be available for reuse and redistribution by third parties globally, provided that it is used in a non-commercial way and is attributed to its creator.
\nThis funding will enable the University to build upon the Oxford iTunes U<\/a> service launched in October 2008, which has widespread participation from Oxford academics. Oxford podcasts currently include recordings of guest lectures, interviews with researchers and conference presentations. The project will have a global impact, as the free-to-download resources are in many cases from speakers, researchers and visiting lecturers with high international profiles.
\nThe project hopes to benefit the University by:<\/p>\n