Open Educational Resources

May 2009 Blog Posts (4)

Bootstrapping a Culture of Sharing to Facilitate Open Educational Resources

A paper derived from the experiences of the EdShare - http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/ - and LanguageBox - http://languagebox.eprints.org/ - projects at Sothampton University that may be of interest:

Originally posted by Nick Sheppard in the forums on 21st may 2009

Added by Simon Thomson on May 21, 2009 at 15:30 — No Comments

Wheels in Motion

Steadily I have been receiving the information I requested from Faculties and teams from within the institution. The first stage of the project is to gather information as what relevant materials are available across the institution. Although they may not be in a format that is suitable for the repository (this is a future stage of the project) it is an opportunity to undertake an informal "stock take" of the content staff may be able to offer.

Although the project is in the very… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on May 21, 2009 at 12:06 — No Comments

OER Programme Myths

Lorna debunks some of the myths that have (already) grown up around the OER programme:

http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/05/20/oer-programme-myths/

Originally Posted by Nick Sheppard on 20 May 2009 at 2:14pm in forums section.

Original reply comment by Simon Thomson:

"This is a great link - some… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on May 20, 2009 at 15:30 — No Comments

OER materials - guidelines for their accounting.

As part of the initial process of identifying materials and resources currently available across the institution a document was produced to assist staff in how they might assess the value of the materials developed.

The project aims to make available 360 credits worth of content (in line with JISC recommendations). In order to ensure equal implementation and identification across the institution the Unicycle project has used the guidelines from the Bologna Agreement which equates 10… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on May 20, 2009 at 15:00 — No Comments

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