OER – Content creation and strategic integration June 18, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackIt’s been a bit of a mad week, I was on leave last week so no blog from me and then meetings and presentations all this week but being true to my by recurrent diary entry I don’t want to let the blogging slip. We are all very excited with respect to the revision of our “Copyright in Educational Resources Policy” and the inclusion of creative commons, which helps to prepare the future path for colleagues at NTU for their creation of OERs. We had our development and implementation wider meeting yesterday and as we are coming to the end of our academic year I thought this was a suitable point for us to discuss how the group should take shape next year. Given that quite a bit of the implementation work is complete I thought we should change the name to LR champions and concentrate on staff engagement. The group thought this was important but equally they thought it was important to keep the group going as there was still implementation work to be done. Instead of there being a group of champions they that the LR should be addressed as part of the elearning agenda within Schools rather than separately and Schools should decide how they want to do this. We are going to discuss this issue at our last meeting of the year in July. The new learning and teaching enhancement strategy does have a priority on taking advantage the educational commons so Schools will need to think about this strategically.
Another discussion which has started to brew this week is the best process for making content open. Colleagues within our “Centre for Academic Standards and Quality Assurance” would like to make some of there academic skill resources available more widely, they have been particularly impressed by the work at Leicester University. Now that we have copyright policy revision we need to unpack issues with respect to content creation, hosting and discoverability. Questions like do we use Wimba Create build the resource in our VLE and make it open through our Learning Repository, and link to it from our web site blog etc? Do we create it Google sites, link to it from our Learning Repository, Uni web site, blog etc. Both approaches have their limitations e.g. Wimba Create enables packaging but requires hosting, Google Sites is already hosted but there is a slight risk there etc. So we need to scope this.
Finally, I had another opportunity to present the project to colleagues within the library as part of a showcase of other library projects. There is a tendency when your involved in a project that includes colleagues outside of your immediate service to not disseminate progress to your immediate colleagues so I welcomed this opportunity.
And a final, final point – one of our Learning Repository workshops that we are running next week is full – hoorah this is a first.
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