“Skills Portal” A collection of OERs for Researcher Development Vivien Sieber

Why Skills Portal Surrey June 2010 RDP website due October 2010 Supplement workshop programme No budget or staff time allocated! Quick fix!

Researcher Development Framework (RDF)

Skills Portal

SCORE project RDF classify and reuse OERs? Map SP OERs to RDF Fill gaps What makes someone use an OER? On-line survey

Skills Portal & RDF

User survey Smart-survey Low response rate 38 Responses: Frequently incomplete 30 from Surrey FAHS 10 FBEL 11 FEPS 6 FHMS 5 Range of levels of study: school, undergraduate, diploma, MA, PhD, post-doc

User survey: users

Recommended (academic, librarian) Recommended by a colleague or friend Reason for visit Link 10 Used before 8 Recommended (academic, librarian) Recommended by a colleague or friend 2 Heard about it from a student communications e-mail 1 Do you know SP was made with OER? Yes 3 No 22 Null 14 Have you heard of Creative Commons? Yes 2 No 26 Null 11

Which resources did you find most useful and why? Researcher training because it mostly contains what I need. Harvard referencing manual, referencing is never properly explained in lectures but is explained well here. I am a mature student and find the resources related to academic writing and research invaluable

Google Analytics

Mean time spent

UK distribution requests December 2010 February 2011 May 2011 May 2012 UK 32% total visits

29 April – 29 May 2012

Widening Participation School and VI form college Information/digital literacy, study skills Skills Portal resources screened by teachers Links from school VLE Resources evaluated by undergraduates

Student using OERs Time Management Evaluate: Language Style Interactive (activity based) Predominantly text based Relevance (to age group) – appropriate to 14-16 year olds; UG level? Source – good source or don’t know (eg Jorum, BBC website, Guardian etc). Recommend Y/N

Time Management “As the OER has been created by someone from another university, I would consider it a trustworthy and useful source. It is likely to have been created either by a student, who has experienced time management issues first hand, or by a lecturer, who is likely to have experienced students struggling with time management.” Find task: Only 1 OER, 2 copyright

Student 2   Language- informative, with lots of pronouns (eg. You) to encourage the student to interact with it Style- written guide Predominantly text based Relevance (to age group) – aimed at undergraduate, but should be suitable for use by GCSE students Source – University of Leicester Recommend- Yes http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/oer/oers/ssds/revision-skills

Outcomes Use expanding – navigation Recommendation (tutor, colleague, librarian) Unexpected range of users School – postdoc researcher Ongoing management