edulink - sidecap project presentation to faculty deans – 28 april 09
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EDULINK - SideCAP Project Presentation to Faculty Deans – 28 April 09 Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki. About the SideCap Project Other institutions Core & Other Activities Way Forward Faculty Involvement Discussion Web links. Overview. About the SideCap Project. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
EDULINK - SideCAP Project
Presentation to Faculty Deans – 28 April 09
Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki
Overview
About the SideCap Project
Other institutions
Core & Other Activities
Way Forward
Faculty Involvement
Discussion
Web links
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– Promote multilateral activities amongst European and
ACP partners through practical activities, networking and hands on exercises to improve the quality of teaching and support for students.
• Specific objective– Repurpose existing Open Content teaching material
and adapt it to local contexts using appropriate technologies
Defining OER
• OER – Open Educational Resources• First adopted at UNESCO 20002 Forum of Open
Courseware for HE in Developing Countries• educational materials and resources offered freely
and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.– Learning Content– Tools– Implementation resources
(Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources)
OER Sites
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 – Co Principal Researcher - Frank Rennie
• OU– Lead Researcher - Prof. Robin Mason
Core & Other Activities
Way Forward
• Complete pilot courses by proposed deadline June 2009
• Dissemination of information about project through cascading events
• Write a chapter towards the book on 'how to repurpose Open Content for distance education in developing countries.'
• ‘Prototype-run’ at least one from each partner with a few students and peers to evaluate and see responses etc in each partner’s context.
Way Forward
• UHI – Technology Training (22-26 June 2009)• UWI – Quality Assurance (November 2009) • USP – Final Dissemination Event (8-12 Feb
2010)
Faculty involvement
• Cascading events• Pilot run of study skills package• Identify DFL champions from each faculty to
make presentations• ACP Researchers Network• OER course development @ USP
Discussion
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/
• OIL site: http://oil.otago.ac.nz/oil/module1.html