A new sub-group of the CILIP Information Literacy Group called CoPILOT (Community of Practice for Information Literacy Online Teaching) has been formed. The sub-group’s aim is to support and encourage the development and sharing of information literacy teaching materials as open educational resources, primarily within the UK.   The Group’s initial activities will be to establish an online space for the Community [...]

For those of you interested in sharing your IL learning material, Creative Commons (CC) has launched a new web page aimed at those wanting to share their educational resources: http://creativecommons.org/education There is also a very informative page about using CC to help with your open educational resources (OER): http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_and_Open_Educational_Resources These links will be added to [...]

As Open Educational Resources (OER) increasingly become part of the landscape of learning and teaching resources, Jorum has now opened up for the sharing of resources, created under Creative Commons (CC) licences, through its new collection JorumOpen. JorumOpen – released recently – provides free access to a growing collection of open educational resources, for all [...]