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EDULINK - SideCap Project Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki

EDULINK - SideCap Project Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki. About the SideCap Project Other institutions Study Skills package Delivery formats Where to from here? Progress so far Many thanks…. Overview. About the SideCap Project.

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EDULINK - SideCap Project Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki

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  1. EDULINK - SideCap Project Louise Vakamocea & Alanieta Lesuma-Fatiaki

  2. About the SideCap Project • Other institutions • Study Skills package • Delivery formats • Where to from here? Progress so far • Many thanks… Overview

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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)

  6. OER Sites

  7. 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 Project Activities

  8. 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 Other institutions

  9. Study Skills Package • Priority areas based on majority student need • Assignment writing • Reading • Note taking ^& Summarising • Referencing • Based on the project time-frame, refocused on intergrating the above skills into one module • OER material – University of Otago

  10. Delivery formats • Online (facilitator led & self-paced) • Links to all courses & Success@USP • Future consideration • DVD • Blended; F2f & Online

  11. Progress so far • Each institution tasked to repurpose one course each; • UWI – Masters level course in ID • UM – Masters level course in Research Methods • USP – Study Skills Package • Repurposing OER Manual • Content outline & list of OER materials used By 1 August 2008 • 1st draft of repurposed material By early/mid November 2008

  12. Many thanks… • EU • Lead Researcher – Professor Robin Mason • CEDT for its vision and support • USP – host for the Final Dissemination Event - 2010

  13. 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/

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