Project Details:
ORBIT (Open Resource Bank for Interactive Teaching)
The project will promote interactive teaching for primary and secondary schools. ORBIT is aimed at use in formal HE teaching (PGCE), use in training schools and by teacher mentors, as well as continuing professional development for in-service teachers.
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Funding period:October 2011 to October 2012
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Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:40:53
Licensing - using Creative Commons. CC-BY-NC considered, because academics who own IPR and some partners will probably want to restrict commercial use. May consider dual licensing as CC: BY SA, perhaps in response to enquiries about commercial use
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:39:10
Will be considering submitting content anywhere with established user community of teachers and where they have found content (OER Africa, Connexions, ..).
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:38:16
Some involvement from Cambridge Uni Press, Cambridge International Examinations, Global Grid for Learning, Collaborative Education Initiative, Comberton Village School
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:31:09
Licensing - wondering about using license image as part of tracking. / will also consider use of plagiarism software (in reverse, || to Phil's suggestion)
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:25:36
One compelling reason to broadcast and shares resources widely would be if you could get usage statistics back about your resources
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:20:31
Jorum deposit - baseline scenario is submission of ebook to Jorum. Other option at more granular levels are under consideration including possible RSS or api based approached (though technical development capacity within project is limited).
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:18:04
Planning on submitting selection of content to as static versions (PDF and ODT) to Jorum and other sites
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:16:36
Hosting multiple content types and formats (video,) on wiki
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:15:03
Working through how to engage community and support distributed authoring using institutional authentication
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:06:41
A lesson idea will be a Mediawiki page (which may include subpages). Working out details as they're aware that navigation in wikis can be messy
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:05:00
Granularity is rooted in lesson idea - it can link to more granular resources but for Orbit the key level is lesson plan
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 10:03:42
Often you can get lesson plans from publishers but the teacher may not have the pedagogical or subject background to make best use of the lesson plan. ORBIT aims to create triads of Lesson idea, pedagogical notes, and subject context
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 09:59:55
Challenge that there are lots of materials for primary and secondary ed which are free but not open. one aim of the project is to identify free resources which could be made open. Also exploring opening up some of the SMILE collections.
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 09:57:45
Working with OerAfrica
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 09:44:09
Orbit is considering blogging, and wondering about a shared blog/ FB page for the Teacher Education projects.
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 09:42:44
Also working with OMAC strand project on Digital Literacy
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 09:36:32
Interest in working with the Learning Registry (within project capacity)
Posted by Johnr at 2011-12-06 09:32:31
Some involvement from Universities of Exeter, Nottingham, Leicester
Posted by Johnr at 2011-11-30 13:14:26
Objectives:1) "the creation of the ORBIT resource bank" 2) "the creation of an open course book" 3) "address a number of research questions relating to open content".
Posted by Johnr at 2011-11-30 13:11:55
"The ORBIT resource bank itself contains lesson ideas and plans"
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