The week’s round-up November 5, 2009
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You will have already seen that I had a very rewarding day in Southampton yesterday. Although it was quite a long train journey I did not have to change.
We have had a welcome addition to our pilot group the CELS project managed by Karen Moss http://www.ntu.ac.uk/cels/ - this project has created some excellent content in a variety formats which will really help us to test out the technical and the organisational aspects of the LOR. We also discussed the issue of accessibility and using metadata to identify any issues relating to this. I am also going to review CELS content and consider the best places for dissemination e.g. IRep, eLearning Community web site, LOR etc.
Myself and Angela Trikic also reviewed our project plan, this was rewarding activity as we seem to be on course for most of our milestones within the plan. Today we also met with Helen Adey who is heading up our Evaluation Workpackage. Helen has produced an excellent detailed plan for this activity which she will put in the Wiki.
We had our Core Development and Implementation meeting today. I provided an overview of the event yesterday. We also discussed our next wider meeting which involves academics and professional service staff. At this meeting we are going to review the Copyright checklist. We will also discuss approaches for implementing creative commons and barriers and incentives for sharing. I also asked members to consider involvement in NTU’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference. Finally it was noted that we need to do further investigation into the use of JACs classification.
I also had a catch-up with colleagues involved in Testing and Training and Support. Our main priority with regards Training at the moment is prepartion for our two internal workshops which are taking place on 24th (Clifton) and 26th (City) November. Anna Armstrong is also going to review our issues list to make sure we are capturing the right information and then we are going to link this to our institutional Wiki so that it can be referred to by out Education and Training Team. Barry Gregory who is managing the Testing work is developing more detailed Healthchecks for our maintenance releases.
Next week I will get on to publicising our workshops with the help of Anna, and will begin to collate the content. I am also meeting colleagues within Professional Services to discuss their use of the LOR.
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