C-change in GEES is only one project producing open material on Climate Change.
The OER Commons repository has recently been showcasing some climate-change material about ‘Climate Change and Ice sheets, within their ‘Recommended Resources’.
See them here:
Any thoughts?
The C-change website now has a form allowing you to feed back your thoughts on our OER.
This is available from the menu above – from the ‘Have you used an OER” tab or directly at:
http://c-changeproject.org.uk/?page_id=382
The input that you give us will be fed directly back to the C-change team and will help us plan and implement further developments of OER materials for GEES.
To find our material simply go to:
http://open.jorum.ac.uk/ and search for GEESOER.
or click here
We have now finalised the last versions of our Partner Advice Documents:
Development will continue of these guidelines, however they have now been made far more generic and aimed at all the wider GEES community. The newer versions are still available on the documents page at: http://c-changeproject.org.uk/?page_id=3
The C-change project is also working with the other STEM OER projects on some more generic guidelines for producing OER for the sciences.
JorumOPEN is based on a set of minimal metadata. On the whole this is a good thing….or at least we can see that this idea started with good intentions!
But with so few fields to fill out, we really need to take great care on how we fill them. It would be just too easy to end up with a lot of data squashed into just a few fields and a lack of standards making the data almost unusable.
The best example of this is most probably the ‘author’ field:
For a start, this field is taking three types of possible ‘author’. First the name of the people who created it, but then also the name of the ‘owner’ , which is likely to be different and then finally the name of the insititute or univeristy who employed the author, who may or may not be the ‘owner’ of it.
Then there is the question of how to enter the ‘name’ into one field which has to include both ‘surname’ and ‘first name’. Remembering that it needs to be in such a way that when the data is sorted, it uses the surname rather than the first name.
This all asks for a high level of standardisation and we have started down that route by starting a set of draft guidelines, which can be downloaded from the Documents page at:
http://c-changeproject.org.uk/?page_id=3 and is called: Depositing into JorumOPEN eib 4
As ever, we would appreciate any thoughts or feedback you had into this document
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