Comments on: Look out Milton Keynes, here I come! – My OLNet Fellowship on tracking OER Reuse

By: OER wishlist | C-SAP Open Collections project blog

OER wishlist | C-SAP Open Collections project blog — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:27:37 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:40:11 +0000

John, thanks so much for making contact! You folks are way ahead of me on this work, and I hugely appreciate the efforts you have already made (n.b. I have been a CETIS fanboy for a long time .

I did already reach out to Scott Wilson at CETIS about my trip, and folks at the OU had also indicated Phil Baker as a good potential contact. I will follow up with you all by email, but it sounds as though a meet could be mutually beneficial. I did just get confirmation that I will be able to extend my stay by 2 days and so attend the JISC OER Showcase on July 23 in London (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/07/ukoer10.aspx) which I assume will bring some of your folks out. So failing any opportunity to meet before that, hopefully we can at least get a chance to talk then.

By: John Robertson

John Robertson — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:34:32 +0000

Hi Scott,

Cool.

You might be interested to know that in a similar timeframe (now to the end of July) we (CETIS) are working on some case studies of approaches to OER tracking drawing on the recent UKOER programme. We’ve made a start at documenting approaches http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Resource_Tracking_for_UKOER . Hopefully we’ll be able to exchange ideas and compare notes.

cheers,
John

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:20:29 +0000

Congratulations Scott!

And to your research, I’d love to trace your progress because given our community, and the Google Analytics we have running on UMW Blogs, we may be able to think hard about what that means, and how we might begin to understand what is being linked to, re-used, quoted, etc. It would be very helpful for faculty and students alike to show them that what they are doing is being used by others, in fact, it would only invigorate the effort.

By: Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:14:56 +0000

Wohoo, Scott!

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:30:01 +0000

Your insight, experience, and dedication to broadening the scope of opened make you a star candidate to research and explore OER potential for the benefit of us all Scott. Don’t worry about the “the papers” … like the banditos said to Bogart:

“papers? … we don’t need no stink’in papers!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdZKCh6RsU