ALTO Work Log
A place to come back to, in order to write up a timeline of all the stuff we have been up to…more soon
View ArticleALTO UK Focus Group Reports
Will be writing up the Focus group meetings here – some amazing insights and comments. One of my favourites was from a student – “What?you mean someone – joe blogs – can come in off the street and look...
View ArticleA shared service?
The original ALTO UK bid had a section saying that we were going to investigate the feasibility of operating a shared service and that is just what we have been doing – interest is picking up and we...
View ArticleTerms and Conditions
T&C boring but important. Had a really useful discussionw ith Jason from the OER legal support project (JISC Legal) about simplifyng our T&C and making them the basis for a shared servive
View ArticlePublications and Dissemination
Been a lot going on here – so here is a start an paper from ALTO has been published in the proceedings of the Designs on e-learning conference that was held in Helsinki last year. You can find it here...
View ArticleALTO Open CourseBook
This came out of the recent (and continuing) ALTO UK Collaborative Learning Design Workshops. You can find a working demo prototype at this address: http://alto.arts.ac.uk/930/. Interestingly, this...
View ArticleEvaluation Buddy Scheme
I met up with VIv Rolfe of the HALSOER project and we had a good chat and we are going to work together on the evaluation activities and have agreed to use the synthesis and evaluation toolkit to...
View ArticleWorking with Archive to create OERs
WE are working with the Jocelyn Herbert Archive to create some online open textbook more soon….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Herbert UAL Jocelyn Herbert Archive pages This is also proving a...
View ArticleWorking with Publishers
Our publisher friends are proving very positive so far and we think we are on the way to getting 10 – 20 % of selected textbooks converted to CC licences OERs this will really help with our Open...
View ArticleImpact and Benefits of OER
Spooky or what! In the first ALTO project we came up with a list of reason for getting involved with OER creation, sharing and use – see http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/alto/about/ and the section down the...
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