Tag: OER
Xpert at 275,000 and climbing………….
March 29th, 2012 at 11:03
I’ve been working on my presentation for the OER 12 conference today where I’ll be talking about the PARiS project and whilst checking out some stats to include I noticed that Xpert is now indexing more than 275,000 resources. This is another milestone for the service and at the rate resources are being added Xpert [...]
Attribute Images – new JISC funded rapid innovation project
1 March 26th, 2012 at 07:03
I am really pleased to be able to report that the Learning Technology team have recently won some JISC funding to extend the Xpert Attribution service. The funding is part of the UKOER rapid innovation programme that runs until October 2012. The project we have funding for is called ‘Attribute Images’ and it will extend [...]
PARiS is mobile……..
March 23rd, 2012 at 03:03
Mobile Xerte is a new addition to the award-winning Xerte Project’s suite of tools for Android and iOS devices. Mobile Xerte is built around the concept of playlists, or collections of open resources that can be subscribed to using the application. Playlists can also be created using Mobile Xerte, and shared with other users, allowing [...]
Designing modules with openess in mind
1 March 15th, 2012 at 11:03
Supporting the sustainability theme within the PARiS project is a team of content creators from a variety of subject areas. These include Geography, Engineering, Business, Archaeology and the Careers service. Each content creator is recording their experiences of the design process and the benefits and barriers of finding and using third party OER within the [...]
Open Education Week Update
February 27th, 2012 at 09:02
The date and time of the webinar we are running as part of Open Education week has now been set. It will be on Wednesday 7th March at 3pm GMT. The title is: Open Nottingham – tools that help you find, create and re-use Open Educational Resources (OER). The webinar will provide an overview of [...]
Open Education Week
February 10th, 2012 at 12:02
5th – 10th March is going to be the first annual Open Education Week. The aim if the week is to raise awareness of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the benefits that open sharing and open academic practice can generate for a variety of stakeholders. The event is being coordinated by the Open CourseWare Consortium [...]
Open Nottingham recognised in national award
1 September 9th, 2011 at 07:09
I’m very pleased to announce that the Open Nottingham team won the joint second prize for Learning Technologist team of the year award 2011 at the recent ALT Conference in Leeds. The Association for Learning Technology’s Learning Technologist of the Year Award celebrates and rewards excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field. [...]
OER Phase 3
July 22nd, 2011 at 01:07
Interesting news from JISC today with some early details of the upcoming OER Phase 3. The call is due in July with projects starting in October–so busy summer for anyone planning to bid. Further details of which projects are likely to be funded below: Postgraduate Certificate development, delivered through an Academy change programme methodology. An additional [...]
Leaps and bounds
June 22nd, 2011 at 12:06
Xpert is an OER aggregator, harvesting openly available learning resources from over 5,000 RSS feeds from around the globe. As such, Xpert provides a rich source of OER, empowers third party use through a set of APIs, as well as providing a barometer for the ‘state of health’ in OER production around the world. For [...]
Xpert Students
1 June 1st, 2011 at 11:06
The Open Nottingham team has recently conducted a number of focus groups to better understand how and why students use web based educational resources. This follows on from the case study we conducted earlier this year into student use of OER, with the specific aim of helping to answer a number of questions that came to light [...]