Facilitating Discoverability of Educational Resources in Schools in Scotland

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This project is about investigating the needs and challenges of primary and secondary school teachers in Scotland involved in finding, using, and sharing educational resources online. The first exploratory stage involves interviews with primary and secondary school teachers, teacher trainees, and other school staff to define the processes involved and how these processes are situated in teachers’ work context. The second stage will be a review of existing tools that facilitate these tasks. Thirdly, iterative design and prototype evaluation studies will be carried out to experiment with potential improvements to online resource discoverability. This project is largely building on the previous work .

Practical approaches to freeing university material stockpiles

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Open Educational Resources bring lots of benefits, but how can we implement them in practice? There is no 1 tool that ticks all the boxes for everyone, but we have produced several documents to help HE staff make decisions about what to use in their context.

I presented findings from our recent project “Set Them Free! Open Publishing of INF1B Course Materials” at the Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference. In the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics case, we have begun development of an open courseware site using Drupal, which is now available at .

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Facilitating Discoverability of Educational Resources in Schools in Scotland

Practical approaches to freeing university material stockpiles