Overview of 1st Workshop November 27, 2009
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackWe held our first workshop in the University yesterday. It was attended by a small but select group, we had representation from 3 academic schools, the library, my own team Educational Development Unit and also somone from Turkey who was on a visit to the library. As I implied in a previous post there is nothing like a deadline to get things moving. I will try and put together an audio for the slides that we have produced and make them more widely available, probably using Slideshare. Now that we have our “Learning Object Repositories and Sharing Content” course set-up in our VLE we can start to populate this with the content we have developed for the workshop. As well as the slides, we have our publishing and retrieving guide, which includes a guide to our minimum requirements for metadata (thank you to Anna Armstrong who is overseeing Training and Support for putting all this together) and an overview of permissions (thanks to Trevor Pull and Barry Gregory for this). The workshop has also facilitated a greater knowledge of the LOR not only for the attendees but also for ourselves within the project.
The format of the workshop was as follows:
Part 1:
- An introduction to the SHARE Project as well as an introduction to some of the terminology used e.g. learning object, learning object repository
- Clarification on the need for metadata in relation to retrieving objects togther with a conceptual illustration of how staff can publish and retrieve from the LOR followed by a demonstration of the LOR
Part 2:
- Staff were asked to complete a very small survey in Poll Daddy on why they would or would not share content and in what context
- This was followed by a group activity to discuss benefits and barriers. It was interesting to find that in both groups the most popular benefit related to efficiency and not reinventing the wheel and the commonest barriers were copyright and staff anxiety
- The workshop was concluded with an overview of OER, Creative Commons and some of the OER sites
The workshop generated some interesting observations about the LOR, one person suggested that it might be useful to put in the metadata the context in which the LOR could be used. There was a comment on the way we had marketed the workshop and the LOR, for example staff were not aware that students could not access the LOR. Another thing that cropped up was the fact that we don’t have test area for the LOR, we thought this would not be an issue because individuals should only publishing content which they deem fit for publishing and sharing, not testing. However, it does mean that we could not have any hands-on in the session which we always have in the training session that we run on other e-tools.
My next task is to make the comments from the activity available within our course. With regards project activities we need to, start planning events for the New Year, overview our metadata templates and do some more exploratory work on classification and autopopulating.
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