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Sarah Currier's Projects
Mimas Learning & Teaching Stories
I've been working since June 2009 on a project with Mimas at the University of Manchester. Mimas runs a number of data services for UK higher and further education, which are mainly used in research. Jackie Carter at Mimas is keen to develop the use of these services in learning and teaching at undergraduate and taught post-grad level. So, she's brought me on board to go around the country speaking with lecturers who use certain services in this way.
I've been gathering a great deal of interview and other data around the following services:
The outcome of this will be some stories on the newly re-launched Mimas website about how some elcturers are using these services in their teaching, with multimedia, ideas for lessons and assignments, and so on.
Some of the insitutions and people who have contributed:
I'll also be reporting back to Mimas about how the folk interviewed would like to see these services taken forward, the better to embed them in learning and teaching.
SHEEN Sharing
SHEEN Sharing was originally funded from January - September 2009, and has now been extended to the end of February 2010.
It is an exploration of how a distributed community of higher education professionals might share resources and practice using Web 2.0 tools and technologies.
The community in question is part of the Scottish Higher Education Employability Network; specifically, the Employability Co-ordinators employed at each Scottish university, or Employability Coordinators' Network (ECN). Funded by the Scottish Funding Council, and managed by the Higher Education Academy, this project is based at the University of Strathclyde's Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement, with Strathclyde's Employability Co-ordinator Cherie Woolmer at the helm.
This project has been exploratory, developmental and iterative. Project news can be kept up with via the SHEEN Sharing blog and Twitter feed: @sheensharing. We'll soon be making the results of our interim evaluation available.
In the meantime, check out our virtual repository, which we are developing using Netvibes, with feeds from a number of sources. The ECN are contributing directly by using the fabulous Web-based bookmarking, archiving, annotating and sharing tool Diigo. The project's public documents and presentations are stored on Scribd here.
SQA Metadata Application Profile - Development Guidelines & Review
Early in 2009 I did a small but interesting (to me) bit of work on behalf of JISC CETIS for the Scottish Qualifications Authority in February 2009. I didn't write an actual application profile for assessment item metadata, but rather provided SQA with guidelines and advice and other bits and bobs.
The outcomes of this work are not public, but Mhairi McAlpine at the SQA may be willing to give interested organisations a look. Lorna Campbell at JISC CETIS also plans to write up the metadata guidelines as a generic support document at some point: watch this space.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Education Application Profile
I'm Co-Moderator of the DCMI Education Community alongside Diane Hillmann. We're working on an application profile for describing educational resources and educational aspects/contexts for resources. This work is currently voluntary, and hence is going more slowly than we would like. Some funding would help. Join the Community by signing up to our email list, and see what we're doing by visitng our wiki.
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