This week’s round up November 12, 2009
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackJust wanted to do a bit of a plug for the JISC Legal’s OER Web Cast last week http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=573 lots of useful stuff for our project, and just waiting for it to be made available so that I can disseminate it more widely. We are currently gathering requirements for an approach to Creative Commons so Naomi Korn’s presentations will definitely help with this.
Currently I am organising our LOR workshops for the week after next this is for staff at the University, here are the details
Opportunities for Sharing Your Content with NOW’s Learning Object Repository
“It seems odd to think that, until very recently, the physical limitations of storing information and helping people access it were real problems.”
(Peter Bradwell The Edgeless University 2009 p.28)
There has been much discussion in the educational press regarding Universities making their learning content publicly available via open educational resource initiatives and projects. For some institutions such as the Open University and MIT this has become a reality
This workshop will provide an overview of sharing learning content, together with the opportunities and challenges. You will also be given an introduction to NOW’s Learning Object Repository (LOR). Additionally there will be time to discuss issues relating to sharing learning content with colleagues.
There is nothing like a planned event to set the wheels of productivity in motion.
Work continues on developing Healthchecks for the LOR. We now have an issues page in the Wiki which links up to the training and support our eLearning help desk provides and will give an overview to colleagues at D2L of how we are using the LOR.
We have had lengthy discussions on the implication of developing a retention policy – and in fact whether we need one. Angela Trikic is investigating if there are any legal implications in relation to retaining content, usually linked to QA and this will have an impact on this if there are.
We have also decided to gather requirements in relation to students accessing the LOR and Jon Tepper our Workpackage lead for this will be doing that during the early part of the next year.
Myself and Trevor Pull met with a colleague from our Centre for Academic Standards and Quality and a colleague from our Centre for Professional Learning and Development, to give them a more detailed overview of the relationship between the Learning Rooms within NOW (our VLE) and the LOR. This helped me to think about how we could articulate this in our workshop e.g. Learning Rooms are for structuring learning and the LOR is for sharing learning content.
Next week we will be having our wider meeting, which includes professional service and academic staff. This meeting will concentrate on our Copyright Checklist and whether there needs to be any changes or amendments and then there will be a discussion and why individuals would want to share or why note.
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