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Cascading Social Science Open Educational Resources

This project seeks to cascade support for embedding Open Educational Resources within the social sciences curriculum, focusing on the relationship between the use of OERs and student engagement.

	100% complete Project Completed Funding period:August 2010 to August 2011 Source:		Organisations: Bangor University Blackburn College Cardiff University Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology, Politics Teesside University
	Tags: e-Learning programme Learning & Teaching Practice Learning Resources OER OER Open educational resources programme phase 2 UKOER UKOER

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Builds on	Comments
Opening up Resources for Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences
Built on by	Comments
Digital Futures in Teacher Education
See also	Comments
Practising Open Education	conceptual parallels
OSTRICH: OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs	differences in method but sharing practice
OERCaFE: OER Cascade to FE	shared contextual issues (Blackburn partner is HE in FE)

Standards

Standard	Comments
RSS
Atom
Dublin_Core

Technologies

Wordpress
PBWorks	Blackburn using this
SPSS
Blackboard	y Porth repository based on
Delicious	using to share resources between partners
VoiceThread	looking at possible role in creating OERs for staff development
Slideshare
Audioboo	looking at possible role for capturing process around creating OERs as OERs themselves
MindMeister	looking at possible role in creating OERs for staff development
Prezi

Comments:

Posted by johnr at 2011-08-23 13:48:24

OER resources released by partners: text, .doc, pdf, spss, video, wiki, ppt, prezi, audio

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:38:44

Tracking and analytics: utilising built-in functionality of chosen tools and/or considering what can be implemented;

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:34:34

Creative Commons: BY NC SA Eng&Wales ; licenses embedded when possible (MS Office plugin in), utilise web2.0 licence association, licence selection in Jorum

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:31:11

Partners will also deposit resources into Jorum; considering deposit of resources elsewhere as well - possibly Merlot/ others

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:30:34

cascade partners explore issues through reflexive tasks eg -http://www.slideshare.net/CSAPSubjectCentre/cascadetask2forpartnersexploringoe-rs

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:27:28

Using accessibility resources from TechDis

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:24:18

Welsh partner OERs: OpenLearn SPSS resource being translated into Welsh and put into Y Porth http://www.porth.ac.uk/en/ original: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3791

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:22:43

intentional creating of OERs about the process of creating OERs - making explicit tacit knowledge about creating resources

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:15:59

alongside other issues project is also considering accessibility issues

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:15:21

Teeside partner disaggregating large distance learning resource into shorter sessions, using tools and approaches from phase one project http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/oer/toolkit/mapping.html

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 11:05:22

Y Porth has 3 layers of openness/ security: open collection / edu collection/ course specific collection

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 10:53:08

There is a project wiki which will be opened at the end of the project

Posted by johnr at 2011-04-21 10:46:44

Project Plan: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/oer2/C-SAPOER2projectplanFINAL29Oct.pdf