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Final Report

The final report and supporting documents can be found in the Documents area on the main page of this site.

If you prefer a direct link to the report file please click here: Final_Report

You can also visit the JISC website pages for Unicycle where the report is accessible.

Added by Simon Thomson on June 11, 2010 at 13:00 — No Comments

ALPS CETL (ACErep) repository project - stakeholders needed!

Not sure if anyone is still reading this now that Unicycle has completed (!) but just to draw your attention to a new repository project for which we need stakeholders to participate in a workshop in mid-June:



ACErep is exploring using repositories to store and make available learning objects to serve the needs of stakeholders across multiple repository platforms - for more info see:…



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Added by Nick Sheppard on May 24, 2010 at 8:46 — No Comments

OER 10 - Day Three

My excuse for not having a day 2 entry is that it was so busy and full that there really wasn't time to post an entry.


Well here we are on day 3, the final day of the conference. Unlike some conferences this has really signified a revolution of sorts and cemented the fact that OER is here and now it's official!



Last night we had a meal in the Great…

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Added by Simon Thomson on March 24, 2010 at 9:00 — No Comments

OER 10 - Day One

Great feedback from the Unicycle presentation. Most people have commented on the practical implementation of OER at Leeds Met, especially the embedding of OER within a naturally occurring process.


A copy of the presentation is available in the documents area on the homepage or click here:…
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Added by Simon Thomson on March 22, 2010 at 16:13 — No Comments

New Splash Screen for the Repository



In order to help people clearly identify what resources they are searching for we are considering the implementation of a splash screen.


I think this will help visitors clearly select OER resources rather than getting confused about selecting research or oer in a drop down…
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Added by Simon Thomson on March 18, 2010 at 20:46 — No Comments

Making steady progress (well, of sorts ....)

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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Added by Jakki Sheridan-Ross on February 24, 2010 at 16:10 — No Comments

Organising Open Educational Resources (OOER) project - Learning Resource Discovery Survey

Might be of interest:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D3TPRVK

Added by Nick Sheppard on January 28, 2010 at 15:43 — No Comments

OER = OMG. Cultural shift towards creative commons needed.

OMG is a shortened term for Oh My Goodness (shorten last word for atheist version).



Managing the process of collecting the materials is certainly challenging, but what is more frustrating is the reviewing of the materials before submission. Both myself and the Learning Technologist for the project Jakki have been trawling through the materials checking them for image use etc



As and example it is taking approximately 20 mins to sort through and submit a 1 hour presentation.… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on January 22, 2010 at 14:05 — No Comments

A quick look at JorumOpen

Some interesting functionality that we can explore incorporating into Leeds Met Open Search - post on Repository News:

http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/a-quick-look-at-jorumopen/

Added by Nick Sheppard on January 21, 2010 at 11:49 — No Comments

JorumOpen live today

Just to note that JorumOpen has gone live today - http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/

Added by Nick Sheppard on January 19, 2010 at 11:44 — 1 Comment

Day um .........5(?)

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

Added by Jakki Sheridan-Ross on January 18, 2010 at 16:18 — 3 Comments

Fantastic resource! Creative Commons: What every Educator needs to know by Rodd Lucier

https://www.box.net/shared/ltlnd1rqke

Added by Simon Thomson on January 14, 2010 at 16:07 — No Comments

Very Interesting Blog on OER

http://davecormier.com/edblog/2009/11/24/open-educational-resources-the-implications-for-educational-development-seda/

Added by Simon Thomson on January 13, 2010 at 13:54 — No Comments

Day 4... I think I'm going crazy

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

Added by Jakki Sheridan-Ross on January 8, 2010 at 15:35 — 2 Comments

RSS - Not so simple after all - Nick Sheppard original post.

In theory RSS is simple, Really Simple, but the way that the technology is implemented by our underlying repository software (intraLibrary) and issues around how we have needed to integrate that software within our repository infrastructure in order to ensure appropriate Open Access has meant that, in reality, it has been anything but.



To read more go to Nick's blog entry by clicking… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on January 7, 2010 at 13:37 — No Comments

How to add OER resources to the repository/

Until LDAP authentication to intraLibrary is implemented, we plan to provide accounts to designated administrators within each of the six faculties at Leeds Met so they can upload Open Educational Resources for the project.



The video instructions below are designed to help them.



http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/repository/video/



Alternatively a word document can be found here.… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on January 7, 2010 at 13:30 — No Comments

Uploading in progress

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.

The… Continue

Added by Jakki Sheridan-Ross on January 6, 2010 at 16:00 — 2 Comments

SWORD desktop deposit client

Just picking up on a tweet from Simon on 18th December:



"@josswinn desktop repository link great idea. we have thought about a desktop deposit tool. Have you any experience of desktop widgets?"



We do actually have a working tool for quick deposit from the desktop - it is based on SWORD and was developed by Boyd Duffee at Keele University. It is a little bit rough and ready and could use more work but it certainly has potential for OER deposit for UniCycle - it may make… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on January 6, 2010 at 15:28 — No Comments

Update to the institutional repository

Nick Sheppard has updated the institutional repository. His blog entry for this update can be found by clicking here.

Added by Simon Thomson on January 6, 2010 at 11:52 — No Comments

ready to start uploading!

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

Added by Jakki Sheridan-Ross on January 5, 2010 at 16:58 — 2 Comments

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