by Lou McGill | Jun 6, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
Approaches to Quality Assurance and Enhancement Releasing OERs exposes individuals and institutions in a new way and may feel threatening. Concerns about quality were significant for the pilot projects, particularly the institutional ones, and often emerged as a...
by Lou McGill | Jun 6, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
subject Strand synthesis – Helen Beetham Summary In general, projects expressed frustration that they neither had access to, nor were funded to research, what stakeholders actually want from open educational materials. This was particularly true of learners as...
by Lou McGill | Jun 6, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
Subject Strand synthesis – Helen Beetham Summary As discussed, evidence of demand and use is lacking and is seen as a major gap in understanding. There is a reasonable amount of evidence that academics like disaggregated resources so that they can pick up on separate...
by Lou McGill | Jun 6, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
Subject Strand synthesis – Helen Beetham Summary Academic quality checks were largely provided by existing institutional processes – typically ‘all materials had passed through institutional and professional quality measures’ (OERP) before being offered...
by Lou McGill | Jun 6, 2018 | Synthesis and evaluation project, UKOER pilot phase
Individual Strand synthesis – Isobel Falconer and Karen Smith Summary Many of the individual strand projects have been engaging directly with learners, either for testing prior to wider release, to build communities, or as producers of OERs.Learners have been drawn...
