Project Management’s Many Hats: Metadata, training, terminology, policies and processes etc. January 21, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackThere has been considerable activity within the project this week and I have been wearing many hats. Such is the interesting life of a project manager.
I have started to look at the terminology within our system to see if we can make changes using terms that are more meaningful to the staff that will be using the LOR. However, we also have to be mindful that we do not make any changes to the terminology used by the other tools in the VLE as part of the process, as there are commonalities. The approach we tend to take is first try changes on our development and test systems and then implement the changes on the live production system. Another related activity will be looking at the help screens within the system, which we will probably do next.
We had another meeting to discuss our metadata views within the LOR, as we need to make the completion of the records by staff as straightforward as possible but also we need to make sure that we are getting enough metadata for learning objects to be discoverable. We have a very basic metadata view for the School LOR which we are calling “Brief” view. We have almost come to a consensus on this we just need to look at some of the drop down lists and the terms used e.g. in the learning resource type. Next will be our advanced view which we are calling “Full” view, this is mainly for stuff going into our NTULOR which is discoverable by staff across the whole of NTU but might be made public in the future, depending on how well the implementation of Creative Commons goes in the University. We also had another discussion about quality assurance, it has been decided that the main QA elements we will give guidance on, are copyright and accessibility and we will leave the Schools to QA the pedagogic aspects. I will be producing a briefing paper on the LOR, which will provide an overview of what it is and what it does, it will also cover QA.
We have also decided to wrap up our Policies and Business Processes sub group for the moment. As many of the processes will be covered in training, by the briefing paper, or by existing processes within the Schools. We still need to pilot our NTULOR coordinator role which we will be doing in the Business School. And issues such as content retention the University will have to look at in general with regards the retention of online content. With respect to a take down policy we are more than likely going to use the same approach as that use by IRep our institutional repository.
Finally we have been putting together a structure for the LOR workshop which is integrated as part of our EDU training Schedule. We are reusing the slides we used for the workshop at the end of last, year but are making sure participants have some hands-on because we have a test area in the LOR for them now.
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