Yesterday the POCKET team, along with colleagues from the University of Derby and the University of Bolton attended a demonstration of Xerte at the University of Nottingham. Julian Tenney, the lead developer on Xerte led us through the demonstration along with his colleagues John Horton and Pat Lockley.
The description of Xerte on the Xerte Project […]
Now that POCKET is starting to work with more external partners, I have been thinking more about the content editing process. Working with content authors at Derby, the various stages of editing have so far been discussed in face-to-face meetings. However this will not always possible and it would benefit the project and also address […]
The University of Westminster has won JISC’s ‘Outstanding ICT initiative of the year’ 2008 for websites which build upon pioneering work using video to mark students’ work. Lecturer Russell Stannard used screen recording software to record himself walking through various Web 2.0 technologies with a voice-over, which were then uploaded to a newly-created website available […]
The Sakai Project
The Sakai CLE is a free and open source Courseware Management System. It features a set of software tools designed to help instructors, researchers and students collaborate online in support of their work–whether it be course instruction, research or general project collaboration.
This could be an interesting platform to test our POCKET materials, as […]
In my research for planning a staff development workshop at the University of Derby on ‘Using and Creating OERs’, I found the following useful links:
Searching and finding OERs
Available from the UNESCO’s OER Community Wiki, this is a useful collection of existing search engines that have been specifically created for finding OERs.
Creative Commons Video Sharing […]
One aim of POCKET is to develop techniques for generating content in a format suited to the VLEs in use in the partner HEIs (BlackBoard and WebCT). It states in the project plan that this will benefit not only users of POCKET materials but also those who use the OU’s OpenLearn content on VLEs other […]
In the POCKET project plan it states that POCKET would use an Open Source Content Management System. As POCKET are using OpenLearn to display the developed material I’m not sure if this is still a relevant requirement, but if it is the OpenSource CMS website might be a useful tool to assess which system to […]
On Monday I attended an OSS Watch workshop on ‘Community Building and Open Source Development’ at the University of Oxford. Although the workshop mainly focused on the development of open source software, I believed the considerations and issues would be very similar to the development of open content, which would relate to POCKET.
Ross Gardler of […]
On 16 October the POCKET team ran a workshop at the University of Derby to showcase the initial outputs of the project and the processes involved. The workshop was called ‘Developing Open Educational Resources: The POCKET Perspective’ and was particularly timely following the recent announcement from HEFCE of an initial £5.7 million of funding being […]
On Tuesday 30 September POCKET Content Author, Louise Buxton and I tested some of the Customer Skills units on a group of 19 students at Buxton. The students were only three weeks into their course and were therefore very new to the university and to each other. For this reason, and because the session only […]