On Wednesday 23 April I attended a Repository Services Day, held at the University of Nottingham by the Repositories Support Project. The event aimed to showcase key repository and search services available to the UK repository and research community.
Chris Pressler (Director of Research and Learning Resources at the University of Nottingham and Co-Director of SHERPA) […]
On Friday 18 April Sarah Malone (POCKET Project Manager) and I met with Tina Wilson at the Open University in Milton Keynes. This was my first meeting with the Open University since starting in my role on POCKET, so I was very keen to speak with them about many aspects of the project, including […]
I had a telephone meeting with one of the POCKET content authors, Louise Buxton on Friday 18 April, to see how she was progressing with her module material and to confirm our meeting for Tuesday. Louise has been looking at some examples I emailed to her of Open Content, mostly from the OpenLearn site, plus […]
We now have an RSS feed on the POCKET website! This is useful as it means anyone who subscribes to this feed will automatically be updated on project news. Bernice Kew, Web Designer at the University of Derby, has shown me how to add news to this feed using the university content management system. As […]
Another academic involved in authoring content for POCKET is Louise Buxton from The University of Derby. Sarah Malone and I met with Louise last Friday (11 April) at the Buxton campus. Louise is Programme Leader from the Foundation Degree in Hairdressing and Salon Management and she is developing content for POCKET from the Customer Skills […]
Another project partner who I have visited so far is The University of Bolton. Sarah Malone (Project Manager) and I went up to Bolton last Thursday (10 April). We met with Roy Attwood (who is on the project board), Dave Beddard (content author), Wilbert Kraan (Assistant Director of CETIS), Li Yuan (CETIS Research Officer), Deborah […]
Mike Jeffries is the main contact at The University of Exeter and I had a video meeting with him using FlashMeeting on 2 April. He is away now until 21 April, but it was very useful for me to have a chat with him and find out more about Exeter’s progress in the project so […]
I am very much looking forward to working with the other partners involved in POCKET, which so far includes The University of Exeter, The University of Bolton and The Open University. We expect new partners to join the project in the second phase, after the June workshop held at The University of Derby.
I recently joined the University of Derby as Learning Technologist, working on the JISC funded POCKET project (Project on Open Content for Knowledge Exposition and Teaching). The project is exciting as it builds on the valuable work that the Open University has already done in transforming existing learning materials into Open Content and aims to […]