Following the HEFCE / JISC / Academy OER Programme Community Briefing day at the end of January I blogged about the programme’s technical and metadata requirements. The successful OER projects haven’t even been announced yet and we’re already receiving enquiries asking for clarification on the resource description requirements briefly outlined.
In line with [...]
Following the experimental nature of the HEFCE / Academy / JISC Open Educational Resources call JISC are adopting a somewhat experimental approach to technical infrastructure for this programme. Although the ultimate aim of the OER Programme is to change process and practice at the institutional level the catalyst for making this happen is opening [...]
Ron Cookes recent report to John Denham MP On-line Innovation in Higher Education is an interesting and thought provoking current “must read”.
The report identifies priorities for action to ensure that
UK Higher education remains worldclass and ¦ at the cutting edge of the global ICT economy
and also calls for a clear long-term vision to achieve [...]
Lorcan Dempsey and Chris Rusbridge both note with delight that Edinburgh Universitys new strategic plan states:
The mission of our University is the creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge. [Governance and Strategic Planning: Strategic Planning - Strategic Plan 08-12] (my emphasis)
Im not clear if œknowledge in this case encompasses teaching and learning materials. If [...]
This was one vision articulated by participants during an interesting and productive meeting earlier in July that aimed to review the JISC Repositories Roadmap produced by Rachel Heery and Andy Powell in 2006. Following an introduction by Rachel Bruce and a discussion of alternative definitions of “repository” led by Rachel Heery the meeting [...]
While commenting on the forthcoming JISC briefing paper œManagement of e-learning resources: why repositories can help, authored by Andrew Rothery of University of Worcester, we got drawn into a slightly tangential discussion about issues relating to different types of resources, primarily scholarly works and teaching and learning materials, which may be accommodated by institutional repositories. [...]
A few random quotes from the JISC Learning Activities and Resources Conference, January 2008
Allison Littlejohn, Glasgow Caledonian University
Knowledge sharing is akin to learning¦.actions of users¦.knowledge sharing is an essential art of academic lives¦.information sharing rather than knowledge sharing¦.learning approaches¦.learners as consumers¦.learners as contributors¦.beyond the limitations of networks¦.collective learning¦.charting¦.wisdom of the crowd¦.set goals and chart learning [...]
Ramdon quotes form the plenary sessions of the JISC CETIS Conference 2007….
Oleg Liber, JISC CETIS
Institutions dont realise how much theyre going to be challenged¦transformative nature of technology¦the content is out there¦one node in the global learning environment¦we always need new content¦need to invest in the process of content creation¦useful, valuable, true¦do we need universities at [...]
- A summary of position papers for the Semantic Technologies for Teaching and Learning Session of the JISC CETIS Conference 2007.
Earlier in August when Phil and I decided to plan a session on Semantic Technologies for Teaching and Learning for this years JISC CETIS Conference we had no real idea how much interest there [...]
Heriot Watt University, 31st October 2007
Repositories and the learning experience
- Mark Stiles
Reuse and repurposing…you will share your content…enforce or encourage…moving an institutional quantity of content from one vle to another…vle use has become less innovative and more mundane…the new orthodoxy…bolt on repositories…a big fat frog…web 2-ey things…immense problems in terms of policy…duh…policy issue that [...]
