SCORE Microsites: Open Resources for Research Students and Digital Scholars

B. de los Arcos (OU), R. Goodfellow (OU), T. Bird (Leicester), J. Carter (Mimas) and R. Windle (Nottingham)

ALT-C September 2012

SCORE Microsites Project

• 200 hours of self-study materials for individuals planning on coming to the UK to undertake postgraduate studies.

www.readytoresearch.ac.uk

• 60 hours of self-study materials for undergraduate students within the UK seeking to enhance their capacity to engage in digital scholarship.

www.digitalscholarship.ac.uk

• Funded by HEFCE through SCORE to create two portals to OER:

Learning topics:

Gathering OER: from where?

• Our own institutions: OpenLearn, JORUM, U-Now, University of Leicester OER Repository.

• OER repositories: National Digital Learning Resources, OER Commons, Connexions, Xpert, etc.

• Non-OER repositories: MERLOT, SlideShare, etc.• Search engines: OCW Search, Google Advanced, etc.• Colleagues, online libraries, presentations, seminars…

Metadata

Creating a dialogue?

Gathering OER: issues

• CC-licensed or not CC-licensed?• For students or for teachers?• What type of media?• One section or the whole site?

SCORE Microsites: Content

• 152 resources = approx. 150 hrs study time in total

• 119 CC-licensed (78%)• 65% read, 20% interact,

10% watch, 5% listen• 105 UK (69%), 39 USA, 4

CAN, 2 IE, 1 BEL, 1 AUS

• 72 resources = approx. 38 hrs of study time in total

• 51 CC-licensed• 50% read, 26% watch,

21% interact, 3% listen• 39 UK (54%), 27 USA, 4

IE, 1 CAN, 1 AUS

Any questions?

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