numbat oer (numeracy bank) by toby carter, anglia ruskin university and julian liddle
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Presentation at SCORE OER event 10 March 2010, Birmingham, NumBAT OER Project by Toby Carter, Anglia Ruskin University.TRANSCRIPT
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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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