Well the cattle have been rounded up, the settlers have lit their home fires, and the preacher and the gadabout are safely departed to bother someone else. Apart from the comedy value of our session on open country (blogged by David Kernohan at http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/oer-the-cowboy-gospel-altc2011), what were the serious messages from the debate at Alt-C? David … Read more
There are a number of papers and symposia at this year’s ALT conference that will be interesting to UK OER projects and followers. Links are to the Crowdvine site which requires a conference log-in. Papers may well be mirrored in other locations at a later date. The Paradox of Openness: the high cost of giving … Read more
A high-octane meeting this week with the folk from the TALL team and their OER Impact Study http://oerblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/. It let me to sketch out the area that I think we are gathering evidence about in the Eval and Synth team, which is a more detailed picture of the two right-hand quadrants in the diagram posted … Read more
This is the current version of our UKOER impact model. We have included a description of this and have identiified emerging issues from phase 2 of the programme in more detail on our wiki https://oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/40291776/UKOER-Impact-Model From the literature we know that OER release is influenced by the nature of the resources and the practices around … Read more
The team recently prepared a presentation for the programme’s Senior Advisory Committee. Allison Littlejohn presented on behalf of the team. We took this opportunity to present our new model which attempts to illustrate our current thinking at this stage of phase 2 of the programme. A copy of the prezi is embedded below… [gigya src=”http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf” … Read more
This presentation was given by Helen as an individual rather than as a member of the synthesis and evaluation team but has had an impact on how the team is thinking… Read more
Reflections from the HE Academy/JISC OER Phase 2 programme interim meeting held on Wednesday19th Jan 2011. Quite long but we would appreciate your thoughts too, whether you were at the meeting or not. Financial constraints mean institutions are less willing to invest in learning and teaching innovation. However, once the political paroxysms are over, the … Read more
We had the first ‘Second Tuesday’ session in Elluminate last week where our team shared with projects the way we would be supporting evaluation activities and mechanisms to synthesise programme outcomes. We had some useful conversations around the questions that projects were hoping to ask and ultimately answer… Projects were shown where to find outputs … Read more
The synthesis and evaluation team developed a wiki to support pilot projects and also used it to collate our synthesis outputs and deliver the lessons learned by the programme. We have recently revised the wiki so pages now have new links. Whilst the old wiki pages are still available these will not be updated. There … Read more
Welcome to the JISC/Academy OER Programme Synthesis and Evaluation Blog. We will be working with OERÂ Projects through Phase 2 of the Programme to support Programme Level evaluation and to ensure that these activities feed into our ongoing synthesis of key themes, messages, outputs and outcomes. We use our wiki to collate our findings and … Read more