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OER15 offers an opportunity to tackle major issues for OER/P directly by the practitioners working in the domain. This workshop will address the problems in creating and embedding Open resources and Practices on behalf of various disciplines within Higher Education and agree targets for the short to long term. We are in a significantly constrained funding environment and are likely to be so for a considerable time yet, and yet the effective exchange of Open Educational Resources and Open Practice still fails to be recognised by the Higher Education system for its full potential. Why is this? Are the barriers that exist ones of our own making and we still carrying them forward with us in our various roles? What can be done from the perspective of these roles, (including students) within Higher Education to establish the continuous development of OER that are needed and valued by the disciplines themselves. We already have all the technologies available to do this so it is becoming more likely that it is the development, adoption and adaption activities that are where the remaining challenges lie. This workshop will refine these issues to agree the agenda forward by practitioners. It will also draw upon the findings and issues raised by collection of 57 projects from the Higher Education Academy’s Digital Literacy in the Disciplines programme (2013-14) and the related Digital Literacy components of the HEA’s Changing the Learning Landscape workshops, in addition to the wider recent OER programme. Delegates will be required to work from both a discipline and their role perspective to agree a model change programme that challenges the modern traditions of digital development to design a better solution rather than let one evolve wastefully. It has often been said that significant change follows a grief-like process which is why it so difficult to go through it. The HEA has had significant experience with working with Higher Education Providers’ change programmes and a selection of these tools will be utilised within the workshop. By giving practitioners time with range of change resources they may be better equipped to take a lead to give OER/P space to develop differently within their own institution.ReferencesDigital Literacy in the Disciplines project wiki (2004) – http://dlind.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page Higher Education Academy Change programmes – https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/consultancy-services/change
