SideCap Project Some Insights from the Kick-Off Meeting.

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/