by Lou McGill | May 21, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
author: Lou McGill BERLiN Project (University of Nottingham) Recommendations for research communities Research focus on potential cost efficiencies available through the re-use of open resources within institutions would provide hard data to either support or reject...
by Lou McGill | May 21, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
author: Lou McGill How far should the programme feed in to a marketing and communication plan for UKOER community stakeholders All Institutional Strand Projects are concerned with encouraging use and take up of material and have gone to considerable lengths to...
by Lou McGill | May 21, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
author: Lou McGill One project carried out surveys with learners, but most felt that more work was needed to understand learner needs and use patterns, although it was considered ‘out of scope’ for this pilot programme. Several projects established links...
by Lou McGill | May 21, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
author: Lou McGill Although not a key focus of the pilot programme all projects concerned themselves to some extent with aspects of use, re-use and re-purposing. In particular attention was paid to enhancing discoverability through syndicated feeds, web 2.0 publicity...
by Lou McGill | May 21, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
author: Lou McGill Quality issues have been significant for this strand as all Institutions saw OER release as showcase or ‘reputation enhancment’ mechanisms. Clearly there was an expectation that materials released would be of a very high quality. This...