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September 2009 Blog Posts (8)

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

Added by Nick Sheppard on September 28, 2009 at 7:36 — 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!

Added by Nick Sheppard on September 23, 2009 at 13:00 — 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

Added by Simon Thomson on September 11, 2009 at 10:00 — 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

Added by Nick Sheppard on September 9, 2009 at 11:28 — 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

Added by Simon Thomson on September 8, 2009 at 13:30 — 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… Continue

Added by Simon Thomson on September 7, 2009 at 11:16 — 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/

Added by Simon Thomson on September 3, 2009 at 16:49 — 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)… Continue

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

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