OER Subject Strand Conference(Biosciences, Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine)

Royal Institute of British Architects

London 26th October 2010

Dr Vivien Rolfe

The outcomes of our JISC/HEA Phase 1 OER project and objectives for our

JISC/HEA Phase 2 OER project.

(OER = Open Educational Resources)

• Virtual Analytical Laboratory (VAL) was part of Bioscience Subject Centre “Interactive Laboratory and Fieldwork Manual for the Biosciences”.

• JISC/HEA OER Phase 1.

• Aim: Turn VAL into an open resource.

• Content focused.

• Copyright cleared, accessible, interoperable.

• Web promotion an after thought.

Approach

• 9 lab topics (e.g. micro, histol, serial dilutions).

• Animation (swf), audio (MP3), PDF, video (FLV, MP4).

• Over 200 web pages of OER.

• Subscribe by RSS, iTunes.

Outputs

• Resources uploaded to JorumOpen.

• API Strips (328 Views)• Gram Stain (172)• Staff OER Questionnaire (167)

• Views could be me. Views doesn’t mean use. No measure of reuse. Hard to track repurposing.

Impact? JorumOpen

Impact? Google Analytics

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Visits

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No. Mobile Users

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REUSE

(20%)

• Low response n=25 from trash collectors to life guards. 50% of respondents were in education.

Impact? Survey Monkey

Moving Forwards

• JISC Phase 2. “Sickle Cell Open”.

• Focus on search engine optimisation and web promotion.

• Focus on tracking andmonitoring strategies.

URL: http://www.sicklecellanaemia.org

DMU URL: http://www.scooter.dmu.ac.uk

Facebook: SCOOTER

Blogger: http://scooter-dmu.blogspot.com/

Further details:

SCOOTER: vrolfe@dmu.ac.uk

Search Engine Optimisation: griffin.simon@gmail.com

Contact us if you have any questions!