APM Welcome, APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Open Resources for Research Students and Digital Scholars
1. SCORE Microsites: Open
Resources for Research
Students and Digital Scholars
B. de los Arcos (OU), R. Goodfellow (OU), T. Bird (Leicester),
J. Carter (Mimas) and R. Windle (Nottingham)
ALT-C September 2012
2. SCORE Microsites Project
• Funded by HEFCE through SCORE to create two
portals to OER:
• 200 hours of self-study • 60 hours of self-study
materials for individuals materials for
planning on coming to the undergraduate students
UK to undertake within the UK seeking to
postgraduate studies. enhance their capacity to
engage in digital
www.readytoresearch.ac.uk
scholarship.
www.digitalscholarship.ac.uk
4. Gathering OER: from where?
• Our own institutions: OpenLearn, JORUM, U-Now,
University of Leicester OER Repository.
• OER repositories: National Digital Learning Resources,
OER Commons, Connexions, Xpert, etc.
• Non-OER repositories: MERLOT, SlideShare, etc.
• Search engines: OCW Search, Google Advanced, etc.
• Colleagues, online libraries, presentations, seminars…