Vic Jenkins and Alex Lydiate of the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office, University of Bath, will give a UKOLN seminar on OSTRICH (OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs).
Starting at 14:00 on Thursday 14 April 2011, in the Library Level 4 Meeting Room, this seminar will explain work on Open Educational Resources (OER) projects at the University of Bath and other UK Higher Education Institutions.
Cascading across HEIs is a year-long JISC-funded project led by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester. The project explores the transfer and cascade of the key outcomes of a previous institutional OER pilot project at Leicester (OTTER) to two partner institutions (University of Bath and University of Derby).
The progress of the OSTRICH project so far at the University of Bath will be described by Vic Jenkins (Learning Technologist in the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office). This will include highlights and challenges encountered, discussions around IPR for learning and teaching resources, and the sustainability of processes for managing the release of OERs on an institutional basis.
Alex Lydiate (Educational Software and Systems Developer) will present an overview of the design of the Drupal-based OSTRICH distributed repository and the rationale behind it. This will include an outline of the proposed strategy for representing the OSTRICH OER records on the Web.
If you would like to attend this free seminar, please book using the Eventbrite booking form. Note: You should also use the online booking form if you would like to view a live video stream of this talk.
