Web sites of the week October 25, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , add a commentA short list this week but not lacking in quality.
- Repurposing open educational content - OU openlean study unit providing an insight into OER
- CORRE framework for transforming teaching materials into OER - useful diagram for those that want to start creating OER
- Repository file analysis - pie chart from Southampton’s ED SHARE Project providing an overview file types within repsositories
- Openness: From Sharing to Adopting – post from Stephen Downes who says we don’t upload them (OER) and merge them into prefab course modules. Who needs the grief? We link to them and let learners use them directly.
- Managing and Learning in Massively Open Online Courses - slide share presentation from George Siemens
Meeting with Bolviar Notay October 25, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , add a commentI had a really useful meeting with Balviar Notay, the Information Environment Programme Leader last week – who I should also thank for her patience with respect to my slightly chaotic set-up as I was in the process of unpacking after moving office. It really helped to provide an overview of the project and to discuss our outputs. She, also, provided some helpful comments and advice on the national workshop we are planning for 16th March 2011. In addition, I was very impressed by how adept the JISC programme managers are with respect to their understanding of the diverse range of projects they oversee.
Latest metadata view is released October 25, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , add a commentWe released our latest metadata view last week. This is the most simplified view so far and we have also amended the help screens within the learning repository to provide extra assistance to users completing the metadata. For our purposes we finally opted for a an extremely scaled down version of LOM.
Title – on field -mandatory
Description – one field – mandatory
Keyword(s) – one field
Learning resource author
(Author details)
Role – select author from drop-down list - mandatory
Name(s) – one field – mandatory
Learning resource educational type
Learning resource education type – select from drop down list
Copyright description
Copyright details – select from drop down list – mandatory
Next we need to decide whether we just keep with this approach to implement creative commons or whether we use a template.
Web Sites of the Week October 18, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , add a commentWeb Sites of the Week
It’s been a while since I have done this but activity has picked up since end of the summer period.
- Open Educational Resources E-Infrastructure Update - an overview of the progress of the JISC OER programme and issues identified so far
- Research on OER sustainability - a list of articles from iterating towards openness blog
- OpenDisc - high quality open software for windows
- Open Education and Open Services - slide presentation
- Do Open Educational Resources Increase Efficiency - challenging article from Creative Commons
- JORUM Roadmap - overview of current and future activities
- UNESCO Open Educational Resources Site - provides links to useful OER resources
- Curriki’s Online OER Course - written for school teachers but some aspects are of use to practitioners what ever the educational level
- NYU’s Open Education Pilot
- Free Open Ed Business Course - run by OLNET starts 1st November 2010
- Reaching the Heart of the University: Libraries and the Future of OER
On the last leg October 18, 2010
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , add a commentWe have just over 5 months of the project left and I envisage that these will be busy months. The Development and Implementation wider group met last week for the first time in the academic year. We discussed the priorities for the remainder time of the project. I would like this group to be a peer review group providing advice on activities, guidance, support etc. Strategically I would like to work with our learning and teaching coordinators and champions within the Schools to ensure that considerations with respect to the learning repositories are illustrated in their action plans and technology enhancement activities. As I have mentioned in a previous post I want our ”Learning Respositories and Sharing Course” to become a toolkit – which includes guidance and advice relating to sharing learning resources within NTU’s learning repositories as well as providing an overview of the OER landscape. I presented the group with the following overview of project activities that will be taking place in the next few months:
Project Activities
- Monthly webinars – Learning Repository, Creative Commons, Open Educational Resources
- Implement Creative Commons
- Develop Learning Repositories online course (toolkit)
- Incentive Scheme identify small projects to publish to Learning Repositories
- National Workshop
- Integrate activities into Information Systems and Centre Professional Learning and Development
- Identify further repositories to harvest from
School and Services Activities
- Work with Learning Teaching Coordinators (and) elearning friends/champions on strategic actions with respect to learning repository
- Learning Repository to be support by elearning friends/champions
- Evidence of publishing to the learing repository
- One workshop before end of March
- Identifification of a small project that will use the LRs
Role of the Development and Implementation Wider Group
- To disseminate SHARE Newsletter
- Peer review Learning Repository resources
- Provide feedback on the learning repository
- Involved in the evaluation process
