Jakki Sheridan-Ross's Page

I know its been a while since I blogged here - that's because I'm involved in multiple projects and have focused on getting the work done rather than nattering about it. I enjoyed the OER Institutional Strand get-together at Nottingham Uni on 13th Feb. As someone who joined the project 8 months in, it was particularly useful for me to hear about the different approaches adopted at each site and the similar challenges and frustrations we appear to share.

I'm continuing to wade…

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Ok, I did *quite* well with the regular blogging - its hard to maintain when there's a hundred and one other things on the jobs to do list too!

I started uploading the next batch of resources today, including some external web resources, Sadly the repository wou;dn't let me embed the Youtube ones and displayed an error message shortly before crashing my pc. {In fact, this is a brand new pc that keeps crashing while i'm using intralibrary (and we're talking blue screen of death here with… Continue

OK, forgive me lapsing on blogging on Day 3 - I was doing a mixture of other things. So today has been Day 4 and I have a headache which is possibly one of the reasons I feel like I'm wading through mud and not getting these OER's uploaded anywhere nearly as quickly as I had anticipated. Nevertheless, I am getting there and am formulating a workflow with the existing templates that works for me. Nick has provided instantaneous support when I've been a little stuck and together we're identifying… Continue

Finally got to grips with uploading some of the Open Educational Resources today. The interface is a little confusing and its pretty time consuming to add all of the accurate metadata, descriptions and titles for each file if you're not the originator. I imagine if each author starts to add their own resources it will make the process easier and accurate. I worry that I might give a wrong description to some of the content as I'm only scan reading it to get the gist of what it is.

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well, I've spent the last few weeks (bar the christmas/new year break!) collating the resources from contributors. It hasn't been as straightforward as I anticipated, namely due to people having very different approaches to naming protocols (not a negative comment, just an observation). I'm about to start uploading them to the leedsmet repository and record the estimated hours for each one. I'm very pleased that Nick has managed to add HEA Subject Centres as a taxonomy which should help people… Continue