OER-Open possibilities for learning. A national initiative financed by the Internet Infrastructure Foundation .SE | Ossiannilsson | ScieCom Info

2012), builds on the findings and experiences from the project OER - resources for learning (Creelman et al.,2011), conducted during 2010-2011 and funded by the Royal Library (KB). This earlier project attracted great interest and served to establish an extensive network both nationally and internationally. The project showed that a joint action between Swedish universities is both viable and efficient in opening up ways to generate interest in the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) for learning by means of sharing time, skills and resources across institutions. 

Open webinars with a large number of participants as a collaborative effort of several universities and other organizations are a new phenomenon in Swedish higher education. Through interactive participation and the web conferencing infrastructure provided by SUNET, the Swedish national research and educational network, new interfaces were created between the participants and the Swedish OER movement and development has thus been able to take off."