EDULINK - SideCAP Project Progress Report – Dec 08 Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-FatiakiEDULINK - SideCAP Project Progress Report – Dec 08 Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki
EDULINK - SideCAP Project Progress Report – Dec 08 Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki
EDULINK - SideCAP Project Progress Report – Dec 08 Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki
Overview
About the SideCap Project Other institutions Core & Other Activities Mauritius Workshop – Outcomes Way Forward Recommendations Many thanks…
About the SideCap Project
SideCap stands for, Staff Improvement in distance education for Carribean, African and Pacific universities EU funded project – 32 months 5 institutions; OU, UHI, UM, UWI & USP Led by Professor Robin Mason, OU
About the SideCap Project
Overall objective Promote multilateral activities amongst European and ACP partners through practical activities, networking and hands on exercises to improve the quality of teaching and support for students. Specific objective Repurpose existing Open Content teaching material and adapt it to local contexts using appropriate technologies
Defining OER
OER – Open Educational Resources First adopted at UNESCO 20002 Forum of Open Courseware for HE in Developing Countries educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute. Learning Content Tools Implementation resources (Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources)
Compendium - is the hypermedia knowledge mapping software that allows users to manage, share, analyse and track information and ideas, and the connections between them. It provides tools for annotation, linking and visualisation by supporting the creation of dialogue maps to which the user can link possible answers, arguments and literature in the form of electronic files and hyperlinks. Educators and learners will be able to publish Compendium maps to a Knowledge Map Exchange which is intended to complement the open educational resources. Maps can then be searched, analysed and visualised in new ways to help users spot new connections and find new peers. Cohere – 2nd OpenLearn Knowledge mapping tool following Compendium. Automatically runs in your browser & generates maps layouts. Can also upload compendium maps to Cohere. Optimized for the cross-platform fireforx browser. Recommended for use. Do 3 things; add ideas, connect them & browse & filter your own and other’s knowledge
OER Sites
Project Activities
1 - Project website setup & maintenance (UHI) 2 - Preparation of background reports (All) 3 - Kick-off meeting at the OU 4 - Establish ACP Researchers Network 5 - Open Content activity 6 - Open Content in DE workshop in UM 7 – Technology Training 8 – Drafts of Teaching Material 9 – QA Workshop in UWI 10 – Cascading Activity 11 – Final Dissemination Event in USP 12 – Final Evaluation Report
1 – already set up by University of Islands & Highlands (UHI), Scotland using a wiki – wetpaint and a group hub. As we draw closer to the USP hosted event, key people can be added to the group hub for the organisational bit of the event. 2. Already done. Presentations made during the 1st day of Kick-off meeting 3 – done 4 – discussion ongoing. Idea brought to meeting is to open it up to interested individuals in all institutions spreading to other institutions in the ACP region 5 – conducted at OU 6 – to be conducted in UM in December 2008 7 – conducted in UHI, Scotland, May/June 2009 9 – QA workshop in UWI, December 2009 10 – conduct of series of events across the university. Using the documentation & ideas from the project workshops, staff will devise and run activities, both f2f & online in which we will try to impart what we have learned from the project. We will be required to write a report on these cascading activities to be included in the final evaluation report. Money for tr
Other institutions
University of Mauritius (UM) Participants; Prof. Alain Senteni & Mohammad Santally Heavily involved in setting up of technology based applications University of the West Indies (UWI) Participants; Roger Powell & Stewart Marshall Setting up of Open Campus University of Highlands & Islands (UHI) Millenium Institute Co Principal Researcher - Frank Rennie OU Lead Researcher - Prof. Robin Mason
UM – reps from the Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies VCILT UWI – setting up Open Campus. Originally the DEC. to be the 4th campus of UWI. Serves 15 countries. UHI – thriving partnership of 15 colleges & research centres; 13 academic partner collegtes & 2 associated research institutions. Lews Castle College, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Core & Other Activities
Core & Other Activities
UM – reps from the Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies VCILT UWI – setting up Open Campus. Originally the DEC. to be the 4th campus of UWI. Serves 15 countries. UHI – thriving partnership of 15 colleges & research centres; 13 academic partner collegtes & 2 associated research institutions. Lews Castle College, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Mauritius Workshop - Outcomes
Presentation by each partner on material they have written, repurposed published Documentation of each stage of developing the course In-depth discussion on a process framework/lifecycle for OER courseware development. (14 steps from USP – 5 Steps lifecycle from UoM/UHI-OU which were quite similar) Collaboration with African region (WGDEOL)
Way Forward
Complete pilot courses by proposed deadline June 2009 Dissemination of information about project through cascading events Write a chapter towards the book on 'how to repurpose Open Content for distance education in developing countries.' ‘Prototype-run’ at least one from each partner with a few students and peers to evaluate and see responses etc in each partner’s context.
Way Forward
UHI – Technology Training (June 2009) UWI – Quality Assurance (September 2009) USP – Final Dissemination Event (Jan 2010?)
Recommendations
The process towards the signing of the MOU be executed as soon as possible as a lot of man hours and finances have been put into the project thus far The planning for the final dissemination event begin in early 2009 (February) with a committee set up to oversee this process. Our workloads are reviewed to enable us to fulfill the objectives of the project by the deadline. That an invitation be made through the Commonwealth of Learning for Mr Paul West to present on Copyright Issues.
Many thanks…
The EU The USP The Project team leaders; Professor Robin Mason of the Open University, UK and Professor Frank Rennie, University of Highlands and Islands (UHI), Scotland Our Project partners; University of Mauritius and the University of the West Indies.
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