I gave a talk (my two project colleagues chickened out again) at an internal eLearning practitioner event at the University of Birmingham on the 23rd June. The talk was a general overview of the project and then focussed on the barriers that we came up against during the project. We had a good crowd and many of those asking questions afterwards shared the same problems that we had including:
- finding appropriate online content
- questions of copyright
- the standards that we use (or don't use) for content and metadata
The issue of standards is one that really struck a chord with many in the audience as academics, it seems, are very concerned with the quality of the learning material that they may be expected to release to the outside world. I will be very interested to see how our Social Sciences department deals with quality assurance of their material before releasing as part of their OER project.
Please follow the link below to see the slides from the talk.
http://www.slideshare.net/NancyGraham/rejig-talk-at-birmingham
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