numbat oer (numeracy bank) by toby carter, anglia ruskin university and julian liddle

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Numeracy Bank

Toby Carter

Faculty of Science & Technology Anglia Ruskin University

Julian Priddle

Science Training & Education Partnership

Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE)West Midlands Regional Consultation Event

Wednesday 10th March 2010

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An OER Journey

• Biomeasurement

• NuMBerS– Numerical Methods for Biosciences Students

• SUMS– Students Upgrading Mathematics Skills

• NumBat– Numeracy Bank

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In the beginning ....

• Department of Life Sciences

– Need to teach Statistical Methods

– Led by Maths Staff

– Low rate of success

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So ....

• Department of Life Sciences

– Teaching of Statistical Methods

– Led by Life Sciences Staff

– Very Successful Module

– Context-dependent, tutorial teaching

– Publication of Resources

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Resources

Text BookNow in 2nd Edition

Online digital resources

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Funding and Expansion

• NuMBerS Project(Numerical Methods for Biosciences Students)

• Funded by HEA– Centre for Bioscience

• AIM: Creating context-dependent, online, numerical resources for Biosciences Students

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Finished 2008

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Beyond NuMBerS

University Learning and Teaching Fellowship – Moving NuMBerS into other cognate areas

Interest in all five faculties

Student Support

University Learning and Teaching Centre

Regional Partners

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Consultation:

Highlighted two key issues:

Everyone has the same problems

Need to provide basic numeracy training

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SUMS ProjectStudents Upgrading Mathematics Skills

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SUMS ‘Maths Gap’ Workshop

• 16-18 December 2008

• Main Conclusions – the 'three Cs':– Confidence – need to be comfortable with

maths in an academic environment– Continuity – continued presence of maths in

curriculum, rather than isolated chunks– Context – need for academic or everyday

relevance

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SUMS Finder

• An interactive portal site

• Using Web 2.0 technology

• Users (Students & Tutors) – can create accounts– can upload or create links to materials– can rate materials

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Resource Finder

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JISC/HEA OER Individual Strand

• Projects will involve the release of high quality educational resources, developed by individual staff, to support at least the equivalent 30 credits.

• Resources may need to be modified to aid transferability, and to enable open licenses to be used without conflicting background IPR.

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NuMBerS Resources

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NumBat (Numeracy Bank)

build on previous work to provide online learning materials to support numeracy across a wide range of subject areas in FE and HE.

to repurpose materials from the NuMBerS project.

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JISC/HEA OER Subject Strand

• MSOR

• FETLAR Project– Finding Electronic Teaching Learning and Assessment Resources

• NuMBerS resources (NumBat) being linked into FETLAR

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Site Map

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A Toolkit Page

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Added value

• NuMBerS resources were designed for biosciences and usually have quite specific example materials

• NUMBAT will allow users from other disciplines to add examples and case studies relevant to their subjects

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Register

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Upload Resource

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Upload Resource 2

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OER

• All materials will be publically accessible online through the NUMBAT site

• Materials will also be hyperlinked from JorumOpen: http://open.jorum.ac.uk/

• NuMBerS materials also accessible as part of the FETLAR OER database

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Open for donations!

We are now seeking case studies, datasets etc that can be added to the NUMBAT database and can linked to generic toolkits

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For More Information

• Toby.Carter@anglia.ac.uk

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