The document summarizes two portals created through the SCORE project to provide open educational resources (OER) for different student groups: 1) ReadytoResearch.ac.uk provides over 150 hours of self-study materials for individuals planning to undertake postgraduate studies in the UK. 2) Digitalscholarship.ac.uk offers around 60 hours of self-study materials for undergraduate students in the UK seeking to enhance their digital scholarship skills. The portals gathered OER from various sources, including the creators' own institutions, open repositories, and non-OER sources. Issues around licensing and media types were considered in the curation process. The resources covered a variety of topics to support

1. SCORE Microsites: Open
Resources for Research
Students and Digital Scholars
B. de los Arcos (OU), R. Goodfellow (OU), T. Bird (Leicester),
J. Carter (Mimas) and R. Windle (Nottingham)
ALT-C September 2012

2. SCORE Microsites Project
• Funded by HEFCE through SCORE to create two
portals to OER:
• 200 hours of self-study • 60 hours of self-study
materials for individuals materials for
planning on coming to the undergraduate students
UK to undertake within the UK seeking to
postgraduate studies. enhance their capacity to
engage in digital
www.readytoresearch.ac.uk
scholarship.
www.digitalscholarship.ac.uk

3. Learning topics:

4. Gathering OER: from where?
• Our own institutions: OpenLearn, JORUM, U-Now,
University of Leicester OER Repository.
• OER repositories: National Digital Learning Resources,
OER Commons, Connexions, Xpert, etc.
• Non-OER repositories: MERLOT, SlideShare, etc.
• Search engines: OCW Search, Google Advanced, etc.
• Colleagues, online libraries, presentations, seminars…

5. Metadata

6. Creating a dialogue?

7. Gathering OER: issues
• CC-licensed or not CC-licensed?
• For students or for teachers?
• What type of media?
• One section or the whole site?

8. SCORE Microsites: Content
• 152 resources = approx. • 72 resources = approx. 38
150 hrs study time in total hrs of study time in total
• 119 CC-licensed (78%) • 51 CC-licensed
• 65% read, 20% interact, • 50% read, 26% watch,
10% watch, 5% listen 21% interact, 3% listen
• 105 UK (69%), 39 USA, 4 • 39 UK (54%), 27 USA, 4
CAN, 2 IE, 1 BEL, 1 AUS IE, 1 CAN, 1 AUS

9. Any questions?
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10. Institute of Educational Technology
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
b.de-los-arcos@open.ac.uk