In the last week, in preparation to bidding for the current eContent Capital programme, many institutions have made contact with Programme Managers to discuss their project ideas. Part of these conversations have focused around issues of learning resources creation, as projects in Strand A are asked to digitise special collections and then create Open Educational […]
Month: June 2011
(This blog post coincides with the publication of the recommendations of the JISC Film and Sound Think Tank – pdf report) JISC has invested signficant amounts in two fine archives of of moving images. NewsFilm Online contains over 3,000 hours of film featuring events such as the Crystal Palace fire, an early interview with Nelson […]
The recording of the online briefing session held on 21st June for the JISC funding call 6/11 eContent Capital programme can now be accessed through Elluminate Live! at http://bit.ly/mS0AXi . The power point slides can be downloaded here (see bottom of the page). The briefing highlighted key issues to be considered in proposals as well […]
JISC is holding an online town meeting for those interested in the applying for funding in the latest eContent call The town meeting is on Tuesday 21st June and starts at 11am. The town meeting is being run via some software called Elluminate / Blackboard Connect. This is free and particpaints should follow this link […]
The eight projects from the international Digging into Data programme presented their project findings at a conference in Washington DC in June 2011. Much was discussed; here are the pertinent topics from a JISC point of view. Visualisation of data was a crucial medium. If you have results from over 190,000 trials (as the Data […]
Media coverage is always a good way of raising the profile of (digital) collections. If your university’s collection includes “treasures, oddities and curiosities”, the Times Higher Education would like to know about it for a new series they’re running entitled “Odds and Quads“. Last week, the magazine reveiwed the Knitting Collection based at the University […]
New funding for eContent is available from JISC in the following areas: Strand A: Digitisation for Open Educational Resources (OER) Release of digitised educational content for use and re-use on an open access basis through digitisation of special collections and subsequent creation of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for embedding in teaching and learning. Funding available: […]
Presentation given at Digging into Data conference in Washington DC, June 2011 Download the presentation via Slideshare
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Some quotes on digital resources
a) After using the British Library Archival Sound Recordings website, an FE teacher commented: “The realism of it [interviews with photographers included on the site] inspired students and encouraged them to source other material beyond Google searches. It also placed the photographs in context, which you don’t get from Google.” b) A teacher who incorporated […]