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?
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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C-change in GEES is totally committed to using JorumOPEN for the delivery of all its OER materials and has always considered it to be the primary interface for our community to find and download C-change OER materials.
We therefore have high hopes for how JorumOPEN will work for the Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences community, but feel that there are still some areas where we would like to see some improvements in the user interface and workflow, before we can unreservedly recommend it to our community.
After talking with JorumOPEN, they recommended that we post our experiences and thoughts to their forum on Community Bay.
We have done this and the thread can be found here:
http://community.jorum.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=98#p142
We would really appreciate any further thoughts that you had – posted on the thread there or if you prefer do go ahead and leave a comment here.
cheers
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The C-change team are delighted to be finally uploading their OER materials into JorumOPEN.
It has taken a long time for us to get going. First for our partners to re-purpose and copyright-clear the resources and then for us all to agree the ‘backpage’ notes for licenses and attribution. But we are seeing light at the end of the tunnel and are now sitting on a very large pile of OER resources – all to be uploaded shortly into the partner repositories and JorumOPEN.
So, please do drop by to:
and search under our specific keyword of GEESOER
Thanks to Jonathan Wallen at University of Wales for preparing the presentation of Professor Simon Haslett and to Stephen Whitfield for preparing the work of Dr Jamie Pringle at Keele University.