Category: Open Nottingham
Find OER via OER LIbrarian on Twitter
May 1st, 2013 at 10:05
There’s a useful service via Twitter to help you look for OER resources to suit your needs. Ask a question of the OER Librarian (part of OER Commons) by tweeting the @OERLibrarian account. Ask the OER Librarian a question by tweeting details about the particular type of resource and/or subject matter you are looking for [...]
Open Education Week Xpert
March 11th, 2013 at 11:03
This week is Open Education Week. Open Education Week’s goal is to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now. It is also to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in education, whether that’s to develop skills and knowledge for work, supporting formal studies, [...]
Elearning community Wed 6th February – Open Learning and MOOCs
January 25th, 2013 at 09:01
The February e-Learning Community lunchtime seminar will be about Open Learning and MOOCs. Open learning and MOOC are the buzzwords of the year. Find out more this February! Steve Stapleton will talk about the PARiS Project and some of the resources, particularly on sustainability, that have been produced and have won awards. This will interest [...]
Green Gown Awards
November 8th, 2012 at 10:11
Earlier this week, the team were recognised at the annual Green Gown Awards 2012 in the Learning and Skills category. Working with academic staff in Education (Sarah Speight), Geography (Simon Gosling), Arts and Humanities (Naomi Sykes), Business (Simon Wright) and Engineering (Aran Eales, Mike Clifford), the University was highly commended for our activities in creating open educational [...]
OER13 is coming to Nottingham
October 23rd, 2012 at 08:10
The international open learning conference OER13 is coming to Nottingham March 26-27 2013. “Are we ready to build on the last ten years of investment in open educational resources and move to the creation of a virtuous circle of open educational practice?” Following on from previous high profile conferences in Cambridge and Manchester and last year’s highly successful [...]
PARiS Sustainability Theme – Evaluation Reports
October 18th, 2012 at 10:10
The evaluation reports for the Sustainability strand of the PARiS project are now available. There are three reports: 1: Focus group feedback from the academic authors 2: Focus group feedback from students registered on the Nottingham Advantage Award and other areas of the university 3: Results from an on-line student survey (66 respondents)
Ear Foundation – Evaluation Report
October 16th, 2012 at 12:10
The evaluation report for the Ear Foundation strand of the PARiS project is now available. Report: The Ear Foundation and The University of Nottingham working together: Open Educational Resources around Cochlear Implantation for deafness. The author of the report is Lyndsey Allen, Education Programme Co-ordinator for the Ear Foundation.
Phew! What we did last summer
October 8th, 2012 at 04:10
This time of year is always a busy one. New students, new modules, new systems, new services… it’s all new, upgraded and in full use. It barely gives anyone in the University time to think and digest what has happened. As such, perhaps if only in blog form, for the summer just gone, between Olympic [...]
Open iBooks, OER on the iPad
October 1st, 2012 at 04:10
The PARiS project is drawing to a close and all but one of the ten credit ‘sustainability’ modules that have been produced as part of the project are now live on the U-Now site, with the last remaining module scheduled for publication this week. A couple of months ago we identified an opportunity to enhance [...]
Xerte Project Annual General Meeting
September 7th, 2012 at 10:09
The Xerte Project is holding its second annual general meeting at the University of Nottingham on October 10th and 11th. This community event is free to attend. The first day is aimed at those using the software in their institutions, or those supporting end users. You might have heard of the JISC funded Xenith Project: [...]