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Manufacturing Pasts:Opening Britain’s Industrial Past to New Learnersand New Technologies

www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpastsTerese BirdLearning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow

What will we talk about?

• Project rationale• How are we doing it?• Breakthroughs:

– Images– Mobile– Research– Social Media– Fires

• Evaluation

Photo by esrad on Flickr

Why do we need Manufacturing Pasts?

• No historiography of British industrial decline

• What about the people?

• Dead zone: 70s – 90s

• Locked away

• Open materials

Photo by Wesley Fryer on Flickr

Listen to the professor…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVN4OOpKGMQ

How are we doing it?

• East Midlands Oral History Archive -- le.ac.uk/emoha

• Myleicestershire.org.uk

• Special collections – library and records office

• New work

• OERs - Mashups

Examples

www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts

• Prezi

• YouTube

• Flickr

• Audioboo

• Powerpoint ‘apps’

• Ebooks

Breakthroughs: Image-led

Breakthroughs: Mobile

Breakthroughs: ResearchAnalyzing and drawing conclusions from primary sources, including image-based sources, is a key skill for historians and specialists in many fields, and utilising digitised primary sources has been effective in building such skills (Tally & Goldenberg, 2005)

Breakthroughs: Social Media

Breakthroughs: Fires

Evaluation

• “it gives us a place to start; otherwise, you don’t know where to start” [studying a topic]

• “an overview, but with some detail”

• Scholarly connections– Gender issues– Philanthropy of industrial leaders– Loss of community when manufacturing failed

Embedding in learning

• Gobbet papers

• Seminars around some of the materials; group work

• ‘Transformations’ module assessment will be built around

• PGCE Geography assessment will be built around

• PhD and Masters students will be introduced to these as research sources

The storyso far…

Any questions?

www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts

References

• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicestere. (2010). OTTER: Open, Transferable and Technology-enabled Educational Resources — University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/otter

• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester. (2011). OSTRICH: OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs — University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/ostrich

• Tally, B., & Goldenberg, L. B. (2005). Fostering Historical Thinking With Digitized Primary Sources. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 5191, 1-21. Retrieved from http://students.stritch.edu/dlcaven/Article2/DigitizedPrimarySources.pdf

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