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Using URL redirects to track usage

In the Elluminate session last week, Phil Barker talked about using URL redirects to track usage - simple yet effective and very easy to implement. As well as tracking the usage of individual resources - simply by putting the URL of a resource through a (free!) service like http://bit.ly/ this technique could also be used to monitor use through specific dissemination channels. http://bit.ly/ is typically used to shorten… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on November 24, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Guardian Online OER Article

This article discusses the implementation of OER in the UK as well as looking at the US models which are struggling in the current economic climate. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/10/web-technology-degree-future-online Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on November 10, 2009 at 9:45am — No Comments

OER Reflection at Leeds Met

AS part of the ongoing developments in raising awareness of OER I have written a reflection for the Assessment Learning and Teaching reflections page: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/the_news/alt_reflections/1F9D98B779D84BA3930017E4E833E33B_26Oct-1Nov09.htm Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on October 29, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Clip Art and OER

I have a burning question - what are the licensing arrangements for Microsoft clip art and OER use. From what I have read of the license it appears that clips art is not permitted to be "distributed" and in a sense I assume that sharing an open educational resource would constitute "distribution"? I also then considered that clip art was available as part of the office install so in fact most people would already have access to the clip art materials and to access the word/powerpoint file with… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on October 23, 2009 at 12:03pm — No Comments

OER Synthesis and Evaluation Project support.

OER Synthesis and Evaluation Project Wiki working with the pilot OER projects to offer advice and support on aspects of evaluation. http://www.caledonianacademy.net/spaces/oer/ Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on October 20, 2009 at 1:28pm — No Comments

Open Learn - Support for OER

Open University has setup a national support centre for uk OER http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5129 Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on October 20, 2009 at 1:19pm — No Comments

10 Reasons to use OER Materials

Short audio podcast on why to use OER materials. Click Here to hear it. Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on October 5, 2009 at 9:09pm — No Comments

Article on Open Educational Resources in Times Higher Education

This is worth a read - "Get it out in the open" - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408300&c=2 Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on September 28, 2009 at 7:36am — No Comments

Support material for Unicycle administrators

These are a word document going through the upload process and a Captivate video I've also posted these in a 'Support materials" area on Repository news. Feedback welcome! Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on September 23, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

ALT-C: OERs Matter Symposium - Round Up by Heather Williamson

Heather Williamson (JISC) kindly prepared a personal overview of the OER symposium session at ALT-C. Follow the URL below for access. http://elearning.jiscinvolve.org/2009/09/09/alt-c-oers-matter-session Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on September 11, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

OERs Matters at ALT- C

This is an interesting post from a discussion at the Association for Learning Technology Conference in Manchester: http://www.elearning.ac.uk/features/oermatters Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on September 9, 2009 at 11:28am — No Comments

New Documents Added

Have placed 4 new documents in the documents section on the homepage: 1 - Original Unicycle presentation 2 - RLO and Unicycle integration presentation 3 - A2 Poster outlining Unicycle - https://www.box.net/shared/hlsg2zbl6u 4 - A2 Wordcloud for Unicycle project - https://www.box.net/shared/tbt8jsfgc4 Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on September 8, 2009 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

RLO Workshop

A big thank you to Dawn, Heather and Tom from the RLO CETL - http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk/joomla/index.php who facilitated a great 2 day workshop on developing a re-usable learning object. 7 teams from across Leeds Met, representing every Faculty, spent 2 days developing an RLO that would support students. Day One: Began with an overview of RLO's, examples of them and considerations for designing usability. Then it was strai… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on September 7, 2009 at 11:16am — No Comments

Unicycle Introduction Presentation

Have been using a presentation tool called prezi.com. The introduction to Unicycle was developed in it - check it out here: http://prezi.com/uhzgy-frgruh/ Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on September 3, 2009 at 4:49pm — No Comments

Moving Forward

Having been on leave I am grateful for Nick's continued work on adding OER materials to the repository and also for the blog updates - Thank You. I am also delighted to be able to report that as part of Leeds Met commitment to OER and the Unicycle project that I have been able to arrange with the Pro Vice Chancellor for Assessment, Learning and Teaching (ALT) to include OER as part of the ALT priorities for 2009/10. "use should be made of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) approaches and Open… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on September 1, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

ccLearn DiscoverEd

"The DiscoverEd project is a scalable search of educational resources with a special emphasis on Open Educational Resources (OER). As such, it utilizes a web-wide index, promoting results which have been identified as OER. ccLearn is serving as an aggregation point for other organizations which have identified or produced OER." See http://wiki.creativecommons.org/DiscoverEd for more info. I'm not sure yet what we need to… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 27, 2009 at 7:49am — 1 Comment

Would you like UKOER with that?

Originally posted at http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/would-you-like-ukoer-with-that/ Yesterday I had a chat with the learning technologist from Innovation North (faculty) about all things repository and, more specifically, UniCycle - he also brought along a faculty colleague who is exploring the best way of disseminating laboratory training videos to students via the VLE. intraLibrary ca… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 21, 2009 at 7:46am — 1 Comment

RSS feed for UniCycle Open Educational Resources

In lieu of development to the Open Search interface - http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/index.php (currently research only) - to include UniCycle_OER, the easiest way to get stuff out of intraLibrary is via RSS - you should be able to add the link below to an appropriate RSS feed reader:… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 14, 2009 at 12:44pm — 6 Comments

Link or file in JorumOpen?

At the OER startup meeting back in June there was some discussion around including a link to a resource in JorumOpen rather than the file itself – this obviously makes sense, for example, if the resource is already out there on the web and adding the relevant URL to Jorum will certainly aid appropriate discovery in the context of #ukoer. I’m not certain, however, if this can apply directly to the Unicycle project which requires us to make resources available via JorumOpen as well as the Leeds Me… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 12, 2009 at 10:03am — 2 Comments

UNESCO releases new publication on Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the UNESCO OER Community. Access the online edition – or buy the book! Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding the reach of education and improving its quality. Traditional solutions will not suffice, especially in the context of today's knowledge intensive societies. Open Educational Resources offer one solution for extendin… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 11, 2009 at 8:54am — No Comments

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