OER 10 – end of day 2 March 23, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackJust ‘a bit of free time to post some comments on the OER10 event that I am attending at Cambride Uni’s Clare College http://www.ucel.ac.uk/oer10/index.html. Angela Trikic and myself have just done our presentation on “Towards OER: designing repository architecture and processes to support educational resource sharing” the other presentation within our session “Resource description and discovery and metadata for Open Educational Resources” so understandably the session was concluded with a lively discussion on metadata which was dominated by issues relating to, schemes, how much and why do we need it, aptly chaired by Peter Burnhill. The conference has been extremely well organised and we have done lots of networking and some potential follow-ups for future sharing of best practice and for our conference next year. As the conference is about sharing open educational resources, quite a few of the presentations have been about reusable learning objects and strategies for evaluating their use. I will provide a more detailed blog on conference presentations, after the conference but I would like to mention some of the highlights for me:
- some useful tips on formalising staff engagement from the Unicycle Project http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/ (Thomson S)
- interesting observations on rights clearance from the CORRE project http://projectotter.wordpress.com/tag/corre/ (Nikoi S)
- a detailed approach on evaluating a cancer biology learning package http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/ (Hejmadi M)
- overview of different open models relating to software from OSS watchhttp://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ (Wilson R)
- considerations of the typologies relating to oer from (Alevizou P)
- considerations for pedagogic approaches to delivering socials sciences learning objects (Gurszczynska A)
- thoughts with respect to academic practice and OER (Browne T)
- educational resources & national educational initiatives (Welch K)
- different collectives and the use of oer from formal to informal with respect to learning (Littlejohn A) http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3175
- involving academics in the creation of reusable learning objects (Barnes D)
- business cases for making content open (Duncan C)
- repurposing RLO to help critical thinking skills (Greaves L)
- desiging learning objects taking into account cultural sensitivities (Qi M)
- processes relating to http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
- evaluating oer resources taking into account institutional, pedagogic, technical, copyright aspects (Beetham and Littlejohn)
- decisions making with respect metadata schemas (Robertson J)
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