As part of the ocTEL course we are running weekly webinars, starting on 30th April. Webinars are open to all and are free to attend. ocTEL participants will automatically receive joining instructions, so there is no need to register again. We will make the recordings of the sessions available via the ocTEL website. If you haven't yet registered for the course then you can still do so via the ocTEL registration form.

This week's webinar

You can access this week's session via this link (please note the session will not be live until one hour before the start time).

This week's webinar is about learning materials, Open Educational Resources, and the open movement in general, and aims to offer a range of opinions and perspectives on the following key questions:

• What do we mean by 'engaging and effective learning materials'?
• How do we find them and how do we evaluate them?
• If we cannot find 'ready-made' materials to suit our purpose, then how do we best create/assemble/stitch together materials to plug the gap(s)?
• What are the pros and cons of using OERs and what do we need to know about them to use them effectively (e.g. licensing and copyright issues)?

About the presenter

Cable Green is Director of Global Learning at Creative Commons. Cable works with the global open education community to leverage open licensing, open educational resources, and open policies to significantly improve access to quality education and research resources so everyone in the world can attain the education they desire. Cable has 15 years of academic technology, online learning and open education experience in higher education and recently led a project to build and share a general education curriculum under the CC BY license. Cable holds a PhD in educational psychology from Ohio State University and tweets @cgreen