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SCORE Microsites: Open Resources for Research Students and Digital Scholars
B. de los Arcos (OU), R. Goodfellow (OU), T. Bird (Leicester), J. Carter (Mimas) and R. Windle (Nottingham)
ALT-C September 2012
SCORE Microsites Project
• 200 hours of self-study materials for individuals planning on coming to the UK to undertake postgraduate studies.
www.readytoresearch.ac.uk
• 60 hours of self-study materials for undergraduate students within the UK seeking to enhance their capacity to engage in digital scholarship.
www.digitalscholarship.ac.uk
• Funded by HEFCE through SCORE to create two portals to OER:
Learning topics:
Gathering OER: from where?
• Our own institutions: OpenLearn, JORUM, U-Now, University of Leicester OER Repository.
• OER repositories: National Digital Learning Resources, OER Commons, Connexions, Xpert, etc.
• Non-OER repositories: MERLOT, SlideShare, etc.• Search engines: OCW Search, Google Advanced, etc.• Colleagues, online libraries, presentations, seminars…
Metadata
Creating a dialogue?
Gathering OER: issues
• CC-licensed or not CC-licensed?• For students or for teachers?• What type of media?• One section or the whole site?
SCORE Microsites: Content
• 152 resources = approx. 150 hrs study time in total
• 119 CC-licensed (78%)• 65% read, 20% interact,
10% watch, 5% listen• 105 UK (69%), 39 USA, 4
CAN, 2 IE, 1 BEL, 1 AUS
• 72 resources = approx. 38 hrs of study time in total
• 51 CC-licensed• 50% read, 26% watch,
21% interact, 3% listen• 39 UK (54%), 27 USA, 4
IE, 1 CAN, 1 AUS
Any questions?
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