Project Details:
OeRBITAL (Open educational Resources for Biologists In Teaching And Learning)
The UK Centre for Bioscience has gained valuable experience through the Open Educational Resources (OER) pilot project (subject strand) to produce OERs for supporting undergraduate teaching,...
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Funding period:August 2010 to August 2011
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Organisations: UK Centre for Bioscience |
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| MediaWiki |
Main tool; possible upgrade issue with versions and required extensions
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| Wordpress |
some community-use of WordPress may feed into project
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| Yahoo Pipes |
information gathering and resource gathering and filtering tool
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| Delicious |
some discipline consultants using project tag oerbital - to gather resource links but sustainability concerns (both tool and use)
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Comments:
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:28:39
Description: link to resource (which will have it's own descriptive information), discipline consultant asked to add guidelines about: educational context, useful for, educational level; notes about use
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:25:20
Tracking: will monitor use of wiki but would need stats from host sites to gauge use of resource via wiki
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:22:50
licensing much less of an issue as not creating resources
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:21:44
the ~10 collections will catalogued into JorumOpen
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:18:51
other web2.0 - discipline consultants encouraged to explore possible tools - project will endeavour to utilise and promote any emerging use or practice
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:13:32
Priority at this stage of project is to develop static collections - learned society communities will primarily engage with this content- plan to build on that.
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:08:20
Will explore Folksemanitc/ OERRecommender and Jorum widget as additional plugin tools for subject pages
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:06:21
Showcasing related resources created through RSS in - targeted searches into box on the page
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:02:14
need to upgrade MediaWiki to version which can cope with required extensions - such as RSS generator
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 11:00:32
Discipline consultants to discover demand / OER needs in user communities. Create collections around those needs
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 10:56:05
Seeking to engage discipline community through discipline consultants with OERs as part of creation of static collection. Discipline consultants engaging Learned Societies with OER concepts and created-collection.
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 10:52:13
Drawing on support from UKOER phase 1: STEM OER wiki, Economics OER wiki, Medev OER outputs, DMU OER project, Evaluation and synthesis wiki, infokit
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-28 10:27:07
Project Plan: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/elearning/OERBITALprojectplanREDACTED.pdf
Posted by johnr at 2011-01-27 15:23:25
Sources: OpenLearn/LearningSpace; JorumOpen; OLNet; Merlot; UNow/Xpert; DiscoverEd; Creative Commons search; OCWSearch; Issuelab‟s OER Research and Edushare.
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Programme-Manager: David Kernohan Maintainer: Terry McAndrew