Getting to Grips – the Sequel
Lucy Renton and Paul Postle, Kingston University
In 2011, the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Kingston University London was involved in the ADM-HEA-led project Practising Open Education. They approached the problem of raising awareness and embedding OER practice in two ways. The first involved looking at how they might involve staff and students in the production of OERs and any infrastructure that might be needed to support this. Th...
Abstract
In 2011, the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Kingston University London was involved in the ADM-HEA-led project Practising Open Education. They approached the problem of raising awareness and embedding OER practice in two ways. The first involved looking at how they might involve staff and students in the production of OERs and any infrastructure that might be needed to support this. The second was seeing if there would be value in getting staff and students to use existing OERs as part of the curriculum. It is this second strand (Getting to Grips) that they talked about in this presentation; how they went about identifying a potential gap they could plug with OERs, assessing various platforms offering OERs and other freely available information, and how they have fared since in trying to embed their findings.
Biographies
Lucy Renton studied Fine Art at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London, in the 1980s. She has worked in HE since 1990 mainly as a studio-based lecturer in Fine Art, with a specialism in Print. In 2006 she switched to a staff development and strategic role as the Faculty Blended Learning Co-ordinator, and has been involved in a variety of digital innovations and projects, most recently Practising Open Education for the ADM-HEA.
Paul Postle studied Graphic Design at Portsmouth in the 1980s. After moving to London he gained over twenty years experience as a successful freelance photographer in the music, book publishing and magazine industry. In 2010 he returned to education, graduating from an MA in Design with Learning and Teaching at Kingston University. Currently, Paul is a visiting lecturer on both Design Studies and Design Joint Honours at Kingston University. In 2011 he was awarded a SCORE (Support Centre for Open Resources in Education) short-term fellowship from the Open University, supporting his research into Open Educational Resources.
As requested by participants at the presentation, here are some links that Lucy Renton mentioned in the session:
Link to the OER page on Lucy's site, which contains links to videos of presentation by Melissa Highton from Oxford Uni, and some links to sites they investigated as part of their Practising Open Education project.
http://blogs.kingston.ac.uk/ku08200/about/
If for any reason Kingston University is blocking your access (which happens periodically), here is a direct link to Melissa’s talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBfxRrKxv4w&feature=youtu.be
To listen to the talks that Paul Postle and Lucy Renton did at that stage in their inquiry: http://youtu.be/YT6DsKI6dtA
Presentation Copyright vs Creative Commons
OER list of sites and their uses
This list was compiled by Paul Postle and needs to be looked at in conjunction with the Kingston project. Lucy and Paul have agreed to share it but say that it might need to be updated or revised if anyone wanted to use it in another context.
pdf version of Getting to Grips presentation
