Project Details:
InStePP
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Funding period:July 2011 to July 2013
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Organisations: Oxford Brookes University |
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| Confluence |
Institutionally hosted wiki, using for project blog, building on experince of using in previous projects, working environment for team - notes, planning etc, support & comms tool for schemes
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| Moodle |
Instutional VLE ( just migrating to moodle), will be focus of one of the schemes of work
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| Mahara |
Institution have recently introduced Mahara, not quite sure how it will be used but would like to explore porfolio functionality, e.g competencies, but this is still to be scoped.
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| RADAR |
Institutional repostitory, based on Equalla, integrating with Moodle at the moment, looking to use it as central repository for teaching materials and then have materials link into moodle. Have collection of staff DL resources in repository already
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| Blackboard |
migrating from BB to Moodle at the moment
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| Wimba Create |
Used to create resources
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| Camtasia |
Using for creating screencasts
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| Articulate |
Used by some faculties for creating content
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| RSS |
various feeds will be available from RADAR
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| Ektron |
New Institutional content management system
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| Google Apps |
have institutional domain, use calendaring, docs, sites, groups, mail etc
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| Google forms |
Used for a intital stakeholders survey
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Comments:
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:35:52
Currently the project isn't making use of social networking sites, however the do expect to do so over the coming months. They will probably use twitter, and maybe facebook but no firm decisions have been made as yet.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:34:31
Oxford Brookes has strong links with the MOLLY (mobile web) project and has implemented a prototype of their system. They are keen to explore further the potential of mobile applications, and the institution has just launched a student app competition.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:32:42
The project will encourage student content creation, and see their undergraduate research conference as one of the main routes in doing so. They will encourage students to share and manage resources created for the conference in RADAR.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:31:15
The institution are developing restful web services and are looking at integration of the VLE, CMS and repository. The team have been in contact with MMU re their experiences.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:30:14
As well as supported core "graduate attributes" and competencies, the project hopes to define and develop discipline specific literacies. This could involve some specific technologies i.e CAD.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:28:36
Project are still deciding on final internal partnerships, so evaluation plan not fully in place yet, however they do envisage using a range of methods and technologies e.g.case studies, reflective journals.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:27:08
Project plans to look a various competency frameworks including those from ALT, ELSIG, and SCOUNL to cross map competencies and graduate attributes.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:25:18
Project will build on existing work with the Careers Service and the Institute of Leadership and Management, particularly around building further recognised rewards for student contributions to curriculum development.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 13:23:45
Project working across the institution to further develop its student enhancement strategy. All programmes are required to have a transparent statement regarding graduate atttributes - digital and information literacy is a core graduate attribute.
Posted by sheilamacneill at 2012-01-18 10:38:37
Project looking to extended existing internal partnerships and build new ones particularly around developing and embedding digital literacy into the curriculum, with particular emphasis on developing recognition and reward.
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