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Simon Thomson's Blog – June 2009 Archive (7)

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

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

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

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