The document summarizes a partnership between the City of Plymouth, University College Plymouth St Mark and St John, and the Open University in the South West to create online educational resources. They aimed to create a shared online space for volunteers and workforce development. They used ProjectSpace to build a dedicated website and collected OpenLearn units and wikis to allow local users to collaborate. The resources created are still being used today.

1. Working in partnership
Nigel Gibson, 29/06

2. I’ll cover
• Who was involved
• What we aimed to do
• What we achieved

3. Partners
• City of Plymouth - Services for Children and Young
People
• University College Plymouth St Mark and St John
(Marjon)
• The OU in the South West

4. The wider project
• Plymouth City Council
• OU in the SW with Marjon
• Formal and informal learning leading to accredited
awards

5. Our bit
• Create a space for
volunteers to “meet”
• Identify useful
resources

6. OpenLearn
• We used ProjectSpace
• Created a dedicated place for Plymouth Workforce
Development
• http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5087

7. Working together
• Subject expert with technical support
• Mixed resources (Google Groups for security)

8. What we made
• Collected together OpenLearn units of interest
• Used wikis for a couple of elements so that local users
could collaborate
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9. http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/ouwiki/view.php?id=387377

10. Legacy
• Created some new content
• Space is still being used

11. Any questions?
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