Open Educational Resources

June 2009 Blog Posts (11)

Official Launch of OER programme.

I suppose that I can now be considered a pioneer? After all I have been working on this OER project now for almost 2 months and the official release has only just happened!

In all seriousness, this "official" launch marks an important milestone in the pursuit of OER implementation across the education sector.

The statement also emphasises the importance of the current projects being implemented across a range if institutions. The challenge for me remains the cross faculty… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on June 26, 2009 at 13:33 — No Comments

Polls

I have been looking at setting up some polls to gather data in a way which is not as daunting as a questionnaire but has relevance and impact to the project.

I am using a free service at http://polldaddy.com/

Creating the poll is easy, but trying to embed the poll into the ning site is proving more difficult - anyone any ideas?

The html/java code used needs placing on ning somehow and I just can't see where to do it!

Added by Simon Thomson on June 25, 2009 at 10:11 — 1 Comment

Quality Control & Ownership

One question I posed in some of the conversations with colleagues was whether it really matters if there are duplicate materials (i.e. on institutional repositories as well as Jorum Open). Surely the purpose of the project is making materials open and available?

The "master" version does not necessarily matter once it is in the public domain as we are encouraging people to change it, add to it and then offer it out into the community again. If an institution wishes to maintain a… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on June 18, 2009 at 10:37 — No Comments

Liaison with other projects in the institutional strand

As a repository development officer working on the Unicycle project I am interested in how we can most effectively integrate with JorumOpen and liaise with other projects in the institutional strand around technical infrastructure, standardised metadata and version control (to name but a few). We are using the intraLibrary repository platform and our project will aim to disseminate OERs via both our own and the national service; such liaison could be of potential benefit to JorumOpen and the… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on June 15, 2009 at 11:13 — No Comments

Open Educational Resources Programme start-up meeting: What I learned

(Originally posted at http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/open-educational-resources-programme-start-up-meeting-what-i-learned/)

I very much enjoyed the OER programme start-up meeting on Tuesday, in spite of the 05:30 alarm and having to hoof it across Manchester on account of ‘improvements’ to the Metrolink. I recognised several colleagues… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on June 15, 2009 at 11:05 — No Comments

JorumOpen at the OER Startup Meeting

A requirement of the Unicycle project is to deposit the materials into Jorum Open. (As well as our own institutional repository).

Currently in BETA mode the Jorum Open Deposit tool was demonstrated with a fairly simple interface, an upload area for the file(s) and areas for description, title, meta data and author.

This approach has clearly been approved by JISC and so might be appropriate method for taking forward our own OER repository.

The preference from… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on June 9, 2009 at 11:26 — No Comments

OER Startup meeting.

JISC is holding it's OER startup meeting today in London - 5.30am start from my house!

There are 7 institutional strand projects (of which we are one).

It is clear that JISC are supporting these projects in a number of ways including:

1 - IPR assistance - advice and guidance from JISC Legal

2 - Data protection

3 - Project Management

4 - Communities of practice (learning from other projects)

At Leeds Met one of the areas we will be… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on June 9, 2009 at 10:31 — No Comments

Open Educational Resources Programme start-up meeting

Twitter hash-tag: #oerstartup

(See http://cloudworks.ac.uk/node/1725 for real-time aggregation)

Added by Nick Sheppard on June 9, 2009 at 10:00 — No Comments

OERs shining light, new textbook model, or harbinger of a new imperialism

A provocative (and long!) post, whatever you think of the term "curvy knowledge":

http://davecormier.com/edblog/2009/02/22/oers-shining-light-new-tex...

Originally Posted by Nick Sheppard in the forums on 3rd June 2009

Added by Simon Thomson on June 4, 2009 at 15:43 — No Comments

Unicycle ning site for the iPhone

For those of you with an iPhone (or other mobile device with similar resolution) you can access a mobile version of the site, and post content by going to the following url:

http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/m/

Enjoy.…

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Added by Simon Thomson on June 4, 2009 at 15:00 — No Comments

New JORUM OER deposit tool

"The Jorum team have been busy creating and testing the new Jorum OER Deposit Tool, for the safe storage of Open Educational Resources.

‘Early bird’ depositors will be able to upload learning and teaching resources for safe keeping prior to the launch of the JorumOpen service. Once launched, all resources received will automatically be available for open access under Creative Commons licences.

Full details, demonstrations and guides on how to deposit materials will be… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on June 1, 2009 at 8:05 — 1 Comment

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