POCKET Final Thoughts w/e 20/03/09
This will be my final blog post on POCKET before I leave the project to take up a new role at the University of Manchester. It has been a very interesting project to be involved with and hopefully the lessons learned can be taken forward within the partner institutions and within the community as a whole. At the recent CETIS/OpenLearn OER event at the Open University, the POCKET team were invited to present their outputs and experience of working on a project producing Open Content. It was a good opportunity to share knowledge and discuss challenges ahead of the new JISC OER programme.
Outputs from POCKET are available at the following links:
- Open Content on OpenLearn: http://labspace.open.ac.uk/tag/index.php?id=7791
- This content will also be available from JorumOpen
- Interoperability wiki: http://jisc-pocket.pbwiki.com/
- Collaboration area on OpenLearn: http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3452
- Project website (which includes the content development kit and project documents such as the Quality Plan and Needs andTechnical Analysis): www.derby.ac.uk/pocket
With these outputs freely available POCKET hopes to support the OER community even after the project funding has finished at the end of this month. Watch out for upcoming publications on the project, including: an article (currently undergoing the review process) in The IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Special Issue on Open Educational Resources, due to be available in Summer 2009; a paper for ED-MEDIA; and a paper and poster at this year’s ALT-C conference.