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

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

3. Researcher Development Framework (RDF)

4. Skills Portal

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

7. Skills Portal & RDF

9. 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

10. User survey: users

11. 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 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

12. 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

13. Google Analytics

14. Mean time spent

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

16. 29 April – 29 May 2012

17. 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

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

19. 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

20. 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

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