Event Goody bag : slides and recordings.

AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDINGS

You can access the recordings of the plenary speakers and of the morning presentations by clicking on the following :

http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1668&s=31

Both audio or video recordings are available.

You can access the introduction by Amber Thomas and the plenary session by David White and Melissa Highton directly here : http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1668&s=31&schedule=2082

The other plenary session, by Helen Beetham, is available here : http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1668&s=31&schedule=2085

And the morning presentations are available here : http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1668&s=31&schedule=2084

Sandrine Aguerre
16:56 on 27 April 2011

PRESENTATIONS SLIDES.

Some people couldn't attend but wished to take part on the event anyway. Please follow the link to see Debra Morris's presentation about Edshare and its impact : http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/6871/

Introduction : you can see the slides from Amber Thomas introduction at this address: http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/549/

The text from Antonio Martinez Arboleda presentation about Humbox is available in the next "extra content" paragraph of this cloud, and the others plenary and morning presentations are embedded below.

Sandrine Aguerre
17:01 on 27 April 2011

Antonio Martínez-Arboleda 

Humbox: a different concept of openness in OERs UK?

My own activity in the Humbox and its impact in L&T

Areas:

•      Spanish Politics, including political decentralisation and history

•      Spanish poetry, Portuguese Literature and poetry translation

•      Motivation in Language Learning

•      Autonomous Learning

Types of resources:

Learning activities for students and colleagues:

•      Simulations (mainly in politics, but also in literature and history)

•      Interviews (on politics, on poetry, on autonomous learning and on language learning motivation)

•      Spanish Language Autonomous learning sheets

Scholarship activities:

•      Presentations (written and in video)

•      Interviews

Formats:

•      Word documents and pdf.

•      Video files

•      Powerpoint presentations

What sharing should we encourage in a repository?

Most of the above activities do have educational value for someone out there, as much as they can have for their current users or potentially more, especially if key supporting information on how they have been used is provided. Conventional materials, if they are successful, are also shareable.

Besides, we can also share more simple learning objects.

In any case, it is up to each user to make the most of the uploaded learning objects, no matter their level of “granularity”. 

Openness in the Humbox

Openness = Practitioner inclusiveness

Bigger community of sharing = + user interaction 

Consequences of the direction taken when creating the Humbox:

• More emphasis on developing a teachers-led repository
• Less emphasis on institutional presence
• More emphasis on releasing existing resources at the initial stages
• Variable granularities –Learning Objects –“Little OERs” (Hoyle’s classification from Weller)

A repository that welcomes everyone and welcomes current practice. 

The project does not isolate practice. 

Impact in L&T

By exposing more resources to the public and by engaging with more colleagues in many different ways (look, upload or reuse) we increase the chances of positive “cross pollination”.

Quality of resources:

We must rely on user education, user interaction and user review and peer-review.

Let the “invisible hand of the community” operate.

The Humbox Today

ü 1300+ resources deposited (representing 2800+ files)

ü Wide range of media represented

ü 450+ registered users

ü 130,000+ site visitors since Feb 2010 from 147 countries

ü Peer review process initiated and ongoing

ü Active community: publishing, making contact with each other

Sandrine Aguerre
17:03 on 27 April 2011