Engineering a Low-Carbon future: a dynamic collection of Open Educational Resources
This one year project, in partnership with the JISC, will form both a static and a linked, self-sustaining dynamic collection of Open Educational Resources relating to Low-Carbon Engineering practices. Sources will be selected by experts to ensure a fresh, dynamic source of current and new materials as they become available.
Some key aims of the project are;
- To produce a 'best-of-breed' OER collection of resources pre-selected by experts to ensure relevance.
- To combine this with a fresh, dynamic source of current and new materials as they become available to ensure the collection remains up-to-date and connected to the broader community of practice.
- To surface guidance materials which will cover re-skilling the existing workforce, low carbon transition for business and education, ethics and embedding sustainability into the curriculum.
The Engineering a Low Carbon Future OER (EALCFO) project is taking a proof of concept idea (originally presented at OER10) of a search facility that is able to pull together appropriate OER from a number of sources in a working services with a specific subject focus.
Subjects covered includes;
- energy efficiency,
- renewable energy technology,
- sustainable development,
- waste minimisation and recycling,
- human issues and social responsibility,
- product lifecycle,
- total cost of ownership.
