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SideCap ProjectSome Insights from the Kick-Off Meeting
Overview
About the SideCap Project
Other institutions
OpenLearn
Moodle @ 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
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
Moodle @ 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 2008
• 1st 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: http://sidecap.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
• SideCap Group hub: https://sidecap.grouphub.com/login
• SideCap Project blog:
http://www.sidecap-project.blogspot.com/
• OpenLearn site: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php
– Cohere: http://cohere.open.ac.uk
• OU site: http://www.open.ac.uk/
• UM: http://www.uom.ac.mu/index.asp
– UM, VCILT: http://vcampus.uom.ac.mu/vcilt/index.php
• UWI: http://www.uwi.edu/
– UWI, Open Campus: http://www.uwi.edu/vicechancellery/uwioutreach/default.aspx
• UHI: http://www.uhi.ac.uk/
– UHI, Lewis Castle College: http://www.lews.uhi.ac.uk/