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OER University
By uczajah, on 10 February 2011
See this THES article for news of the future OER university, to which we may potentially be contributing: http://tinyurl.com/6ysygh3
JorumOpen? Now it’s Jorum only
By Man Yang, on 9 February 2011
Just about to deposit our first release of the resources into JorumOpen. But realised from this week’s Elluminate session that JorumOpen is no longer exist. Instead all Jorum resources are now in one single database.
It might mean simple platform for Jorum. But be aware that when you search for resources , you will be presented with one single list of resources, shared under different licence options – Creative Commons and Jorum EducationUK. The latter, which was also introduced recently by Jorum, allows users to access and use a resource in UK Education for any non-commercial purposes that are conducive to education, teaching, learning, private study and/or research.
It is also interesting to know that new Jorum widgets and API have been developed and will be available for us to use soon. I certainly want to try the widgets on the OER@UCL website, or the project website?
Licensing OERs
By uczajah, on 28 January 2011
Interim Programme Meeting
By uczajah, on 28 January 2011
The Interim Programme Meeting began with information on project documentation (we must submit our Interim Report by 21 February) and useful updates on accessibility and evaluation & synthesis – I will look at the document on “outputs” before writing the interim report. Materials from these sessions will be available soon.
In the afternoon, the OMAC strand projects had their own session. It was interesting to hear updates from the other projects – and good to know we are all feeling the pressure of a one-year project timeline.
In the OMAC session, we discussed the question of “community”, how an OER community in the area of HE learning and teaching can be developed and maintained, whether we have a sense that such a community exists. Interacting with one another’s blogs was one strategy suggested.
It was nice to make contact again with Richard, from Open for Business. We hope to meet up again to talk about common issues. This meeting was also the start of a week’s close collaboration with DELILA. We are paired together for evaluation and we share a critical friend. The train journey to and from Birmingham gave me a chance to talk through a number of issues with DELILA project director, Jane Secker.
Steer from the Steering Group
By uczajah, on 28 January 2011
Very useful feedback on our resources from the steering group and our critical friend, Sandra Griffiths, at this week’s meeting.
We talked about the need to provide guidance materials for different groups of users, for example individual learners, educational developers, course leaders. We had been wondering how to make PowerPoint presentations as useful as possible; for individual learners, presentation as a text document (as in our Values in Higher Education materials) was preferred. Jannie Roed (Thames Valley University) and Anna Douglas (City & Islington College) were both looking for resources on e-learning and may be able to give us feedback on the “Learning, Teaching and Technologies” unit.
We also talked about dissemination, and how to increase the impact of the project. We will follow up Henry Potts’s suggestion of putting pdf documents in UCL ePrints, since this is searched by Google Scholar.
Start tweeting…
By Man Yang, on 27 January 2011
CPD4HE starts tweeting now as we are gearing up for the first release! Follow us on Twitter and be the first to hear news from the CPD4HE project!
Busy at the moment!
By Man Yang, on 26 January 2011
It’s been quiet for a while over the Christmas but we are very busy at the moment preparing for the release of the materials from the two units. June, our IPR and licensing adviser, had a meeting with Holly and Ros in December to give advice on IPR and licensing issues. There were lots of discussions and debates on which creative commons license our project should use.
Ros and I also tried recording voice over slides for the PowerPoint presentation on Assessment and Feedback. We have figured out the optimum settings to achieve good sound quality. Lots of materials have been uploaded to the team area of the project web site and we are in the process of releasing some of these very soon. So watch this space!
content provided units 5 and 7
By UCL Women's Liberation, on 6 December 2010
I’ve just updated the content for ‘Unit 7 Values in HE’, and this time it is in the right place, not an additional page. I don’t have permissions to delete the earlier page so that is still there. Following discussion with the Steering Group last week I thought I should add Perry to the annotated reading list, and a few other things too… it is *not* finished.
I’ve also posted a lot of content for ”Unit 5 research and teaching’ including Ros’s virtual plenary on this topic. I have the jpeg separately, it displays OK in Word but did not survive cutting and pasting into Silva editor. It is also *not* finished. I think I need some Silva training!
Anyway, hope it gives the rest of the team something to go on, and I’ll work on the ‘curriculum’ unit next.
OER, IPR and Licensing Workshop
By Man Yang, on 26 November 2010
Three members of the project team attended the “Before You Start: OER, IPR and Licensing Workshop” which was held at UCL on 24th November.
Led by two members of the OER IPR Support Project Team, the workshop provided an overview of copyright and other IPR issues. It also covered the different types of Creative Commons licences, the obligations to JISC and how we can embed good IPR practice into existing processes.
I found the workshop very helpful. For those who couldn’t attend, here is the link to OER IPR Support where more information and resources can be obtained:
http://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/
HEA workshop for OMAC projects
By uczajah, on 26 November 2010
This workshop on Tuesday 23 was an opportunity to find out about other OER projects in our strand and to hear the latest on the UK Professional Standards Framework (PSF) from the HEA. We also found out that the consultation on the new PSF is due to begin this week.
One good outcome of the meeting was that the HEA agreed to produce a set of tags for the UKPSF standards, core knowlege, activities and values. If we all use these tags it should help potential users identify useful resources.