SideCap Project Some Insights from the Kick-Off Meeting
Overview About the SideCap Project Other institutions OpenLearn OU Where to from here? 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 –Provide ‘learn by doing’ opportunities for academic and other staffing in order to improve the quality of teaching, support & technology implementation for DE at established universities in all 3 ACP areas Specific objective –Repurpose existing Open Content teaching material and adapt it to local contexts using appropriate technologies
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
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 –Participant: Frank Rennie OU –Prof. Robin Mason
About Open Learn
Distance learning materials freely available online First HEI in the UK to offer freely available open educational resources at this scale. First in world was MIT with OCW. 2 complementary spaces: –The LearningSpace –The LabSpace
About Open Learn Learning tools: –Knowledge Mapping; Compendium & Cohere –MSG –Flashmeeting –Videoblogs;FlashVLog –Learning Clubs
OU Combined study calendar Open Mark Reflective Assessment Rubric Blog Module Wiki HTML Editor Web Conferencing tool LAMS Support offered from OU and UWI
Where to from here? Each institution tasked to repurpose one course each; –UWI – Masters level course in ID –UM – Masters level course in Research Methods –USP – Undergrad course in Study Skills Repurposing OER Manual Content outline & list of OER materials used By 1 August st draft of repurposed material By early/mid November 2008
Many thanks… Helen, Jenny, Eileen & Val Evonne & Maki – travel arrangements DFLSC staff and the rest of CEDT Louise
Web links SideCap Project site: SideCap Group hub: SideCap Project blog: OpenLearn site: –Cohere: OU site: UM: –UM, VCILT: UWI: –UWI, Open Campus: UHI: –UHI, Lewis Castle College: