Building blocks for a national event January 15, 2010
Posted by AngelaTrikic in : Comms , trackbackA significant aspect of the JISC SHARE project is aimed at trying to achieve a change in academic practice towards more organised sharing of educational resources. Early feedback indicates that this is happening on an informal level in many subject areas so this is a good starting point. We’re hoping to build on this by encouraging colleagues to use the Learning Object Repository (LOR) in the VLE as a container that they can both deposit and search for resources.
Moving from informal arrangements to offering a more structured approach to resource sharing has prompted consideration of processes and workflows that may be needed at School and University level. The Policy and Business Process sub-group have recently identified a number of tasks for a LOR co-ordinator role. I have followed up with a discussion with Bal Johal, Deputy Academic Administration Manager for the College of Business, Law and Social Science. Bal has agreed to pilot this role with the Business School to check out the feasibility of academic administrators supporting academics in their use of the LOR.
Another issue that has arisen in considering resource sharing relates to how best to do this more widely where opportunities for collaborations either with other universities or participants external to the University is presented. This immediately raised the University’s Intellectual Property Rights and current Copyright License policy. Again this demonstrates how the project is becoming a positive trigger for prompting the University to review these policies. We have carried out the groundwork investigations around Creative Commons options and have put forward a proposal for consideration.
The project’s work in forging transitions in academic practice that support open educational resource sharing and re-use has led us to put forward a proposal for a national event next march 2011 in response to the IE inf11 programme call, around the following:
- Institutional processes and work flows
- Institutional policy review (IPR/copyright)
- Impact of Web 2.0 and informal sharing
For more details you can access the proposal in the project wiki, SHARE Project Management page. If you have feedback or suggestions that could help make the event even more useful please, all comments are welcome.
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