SHARE November Newsletter December 2, 2010
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Welcome to this month’s Newsletter. Not one to miss a chance to disseminate SHARE’s activities far and wide – it is a slightly abbreviated version of the one circulated amongst colleagues here at NTU.
At the beginning of the month I had a visit from Balviar Notay, the JISC Programme Manager for our project. This presented an opportunity to provide a more in-depth overview of the project’s outputs. Balviar was particularly interested in staff engagement with the learning repositories and the processes we had adopted to enable easy publishing and retrieval. Balviar commented that the project would be a useful case study for the wider higher education community.
With respect to the learning repository, we released another update of the metadata template that colleagues should complete when publishing. This is the simplest so far so we hope colleagues will be happy with it. We welcome any feedback on this or any features of the learning repositories.
The project, also, is pleased to announce after a couple of expectant months the national learning repository, JorumOpen, can now be searched via the learning repository tool, more on this below.
Bright Idea of the Month
The learning repository link now gives you access to the JorumOpen learning repository. The word Jorum is of Biblical origin and means a collecting (or drinking) bowl and JorumOpen provides a bowlful of learning and teaching resources deposited by UK, HE and FE Institutions. Everything in JorumOpen is free to reuse and repurpose and can be searched directly from within NOW. Are you thinking about adding fresh content to your learning room? Perhaps someone has already created an online resource for the topic you are teaching. Why not have a look in the JorumOpen repository to see what’s available?
Web Sites of the Month – a selection from SHARE Project web site
This month’s links includes dossiers, debates and developments:
- Taking OER Beyond the Community – With this initiative, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) are aiming to expand understanding of OER by educational decision makers and quality assurance experts in order to promote their wider use
- OER 101: Theory and Practice – Two presentations from David Wiley: The first presents a strengthened and clarified definition of OER. The second recognizes that in “practice” people play extremely fast and loose with the term “open”
- Roadmap for an Open Educational Highway – This project seeks to develop an interface for publishing Open Education Resources (OER) to a range of repositories
Monthly Stats
Here are this month’s stats:
- Number of learning resources published across all NTU’s Learning Repositories (including Schools and NTU LRs) – 3974
- Number of learning resources published in the NTU-wide Learning Repository – 1781
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