During December I had the very pleasant task of curating a collection of Oxford OER. To sit behind each door of the OUCS OpenAdvent calendar I chose items from our several collections of unique content hosted at OUCS. Content which spoke about giving, family,community, ethics and religion.
Drawing on the Oxford OpenSpires podcasts, The Great War Archive, Woruldhord and the Oxford University Text Archive, the task was easy because we have so many beautiful and valuable gifts to share.
The exercise was particularly appropriate because it is those same commitments to giving, sharing and community which have enabled each of these collection to be created in the first place. All of the content is released by Oxford University colleagues under creative commons licences which encourage use and re-use in educational settings.
You can see the full collection in the Open Advent blog.
The calendar was promoted via twitter campaign and during December we drew thousands of hits to our webpages and gained many more followers for our social media. I hope we also spread a little joy.