CORE Materials
Status: Completed May 2010.
Background
The rationale for this project is rooted in the partners’ commitment to sharing and promoting open learning resources and curricula content, as a means of enhancing the student learning experience in the subject of Materials.
The UK Centre for Materials Education (UKCME), as the Higher Education Subject Centre for the UK Materials community, has since its inception in 2000 developed strategies and collaborative partnerships for both creating and disseminating teaching and learning resources. We are aware of a great number of local learning resources, many of them in electronic form and many of them created following the stimulus of a small grant from UKCME. Electronic-based and online mechanisms have been a significant component of such resources. This proposal seeks to improve opportunities for learning by students / trainees and for teaching by academics / trainers. The project not only seeks to release openly for use and repurposing existing learning resources, but will also explore processes, issues and policies involved in the practices of releasing such content.
The following table summarises the project’s main 20 Characteristics (C20) of benefit to UK HE:
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My Role
My duties for this project will include:
- Producing high quality workflows
- Explore web 2.0 dissemination possibilities
- Provide assistance with IPR, tagging and sharing of OERs
- Liaison with JorumOpen
- Explore possibilities of RSS/Atom feeds
- Create demonstrators of Personal Learning Enviroments that utilise OERs.
- Investigate batch upload to web 2.0 platforms through APIs.
Publications
- Discovering OERs through RSS and APIs
Presented at Open Educational Resources International Symposium (UKOER10), London, July 2010
- Repositories and the Open Web: Reflections from the Core-Materials and OER Pilot Projects
Presented at CETIS Repositories and the Open Web, April 2010
- OER Workflow Diagram