For many staff, a significant part of the preparation for teaching is preparing content – whether that’s pre-recorded videos, resource lists compiled primarily from library material, material staff have created themselves or OER content that’s relevant. We’ll try to find some pointers to help ease this process, while ensuring the content is engaging….Continue Reading 4: Teaching Materials and Resources
5: Acquisition
Acquisition is the process by which students get key information – how can we engage students well with this online?…Continue Reading 5: Acquisition
Day 1: Searching – Creative Commons
Over recent years many people and organisations have started to take advantage of Creative Commons, a set of free licences that allow individuals to licence their works for reuse under certain conditions or to put them into the public domain….Continue Reading Day 1: Searching – Creative Commons
Day 2: Searching – Licensed Resources
The focus of today is on introducing tips to searching and reusing high quality resources that are licensed but available for your teaching. One of the challenges that many academics face when preparing online material in the VLE, is the uncertainty of how to source third party material copyright cleared for educational use….Continue Reading Day 2: Searching – Licensed Resources
Day 3: Searching – Beyond images
Over the last two days, we have concentrated primarily on images; both those that are creative commons, and those that are licensed via the University. However, many staff want resources that aren’t images to support their learning resources. If you looked at the State of the Commons report in the first day of this course, then you’ll know that Creative Commons licences are applied to all media types. We will be looking at some of these today….Continue Reading Day 3: Searching – Beyond images
