www.le.ac.uk Manufacturing Pasts: Opening Britain’s Industrial Past to New Learners and New Technologies www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts Terese Bird Learning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow
May 09, 2015
www.le.ac.uk
Manufacturing Pasts:Opening Britain’s Industrial Past to New Learnersand New Technologies
www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpastsTerese BirdLearning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow
What will we talk about?
• Project rationale• How are we doing it?• Breakthroughs:
– Images– Mobile– Research– Social Media– Fires
• Evaluation
Photo by esrad on Flickr
Why do we need Manufacturing Pasts?
• No historiography of British industrial decline
• What about the people?
• Dead zone: 70s – 90s
• Locked away
• Open materials
Photo by Wesley Fryer on Flickr
Listen to the professor…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVN4OOpKGMQ
How are we doing it?
• East Midlands Oral History Archive -- le.ac.uk/emoha
• Myleicestershire.org.uk
• Special collections – library and records office
• New work
• OERs - Mashups
Examples
www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts
• Prezi
• YouTube
• Flickr
• Audioboo
• Powerpoint ‘apps’
• Ebooks
Breakthroughs: Image-led
Breakthroughs: Mobile
Breakthroughs: ResearchAnalyzing and drawing conclusions from primary sources, including image-based sources, is a key skill for historians and specialists in many fields, and utilising digitised primary sources has been effective in building such skills (Tally & Goldenberg, 2005)
Breakthroughs: Social Media
Breakthroughs: Fires
Evaluation
• “it gives us a place to start; otherwise, you don’t know where to start” [studying a topic]
• “an overview, but with some detail”
• Scholarly connections– Gender issues– Philanthropy of industrial leaders– Loss of community when manufacturing failed
Embedding in learning
• Gobbet papers
• Seminars around some of the materials; group work
• ‘Transformations’ module assessment will be built around
• PGCE Geography assessment will be built around
• PhD and Masters students will be introduced to these as research sources
References
• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicestere. (2010). OTTER: Open, Transferable and Technology-enabled Educational Resources — University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/otter
• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester. (2011). OSTRICH: OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs — University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/ostrich
• Tally, B., & Goldenberg, L. B. (2005). Fostering Historical Thinking With Digitized Primary Sources. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 5191, 1-21. Retrieved from http://students.stritch.edu/dlcaven/Article2/DigitizedPrimarySources.pdf
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