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Using the Cloud for OER Publishing

Our feasibility study for using cloud services for large-scale OER Publishing in the Arts has just been released under a Creative Commons Licence – see this link in the ALTO Filestore – makes interesting reading! It’s part of a study … Continue reading

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Impact and Benefits of OER

Spooky or what! In the first ALTO project we came up with a list of reason for getting involved with OER creation, sharing and use – see http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/alto/about/ and the section down the page about ‘Why’ and the potential benefits to … Continue reading

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OER as a Digital Literacy Diagnostic Tool

From the experience of our workshops it looks like OER engagement is good for rapidly diagnosing  digital literacy learning requirements (especially from group work) at individual and departmental levels. Combined with the ALTO fieldworker concept this has the possibility of delivering … Continue reading

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Working with Publishers

Our publisher friends are proving very positive so far and we think we are on the way to getting 10 – 20 % of selected textbooks converted to CC licences OERs this will really help with our Open CourseBook plans. … Continue reading

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Working with Archive to create OERs

WE are working with the Jocelyn Herbert Archive to create some online open textbook more soon….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Herbert UAL Jocelyn Herbert Archive pages This is also proving a useful testing ground to develop an architecture for a future shared service see this … Continue reading

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