Two-day workshop on online resources
| Venue: | University of Manchester |
| Date: | 15 - 16 December 2004 |
This workshop is primarily designed for members of the RMP Programme who are developing online resources, and other ESRC resource centres. Others who are interested in attending may also book.
There is no charge for attending this workshop and delegates will be provided
with overnight accommodation (dinner, bed and breakfast) at the Manchester
Business School, also free of charge.
The workshop will have two strands – one for those involved in developing
the substantive materials and one for those involved with the technical
issues. We recognise that these overlap and the workshop will be organised
to allow – and promote - interchange.
Programme
| Wednesday 15 December |
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| 12.15 - 1.15 | Buffet lunch |
1.30 - 3.45
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Session 1 - Designing online materials for sharing (1) Aligning resource, assessment and activity strategies in course development Jim Petch, Teaching Learning and Assessment Office, University of Manchester (2) Metadata to facilitate searching and IPR issues in sharing Steve Rogers, JORUM, JISC (3)
The Role of IPR in content development and sustaining a community
of practice Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Networked E-Learning A Beginners Guide for Content Developers |
| 3.45 | Tea |
4.00 - 5.30 |
Parallel Streams Session 2a - Quality assurance and evaluation QA and evaluation for online resources: making sure they meet the needs of the end user Gráinne Conole, NCRM, University of Southampton Tristram Hooley and Rob Shaw, University of Leicester Session 2b - Technical strand: learning and teaching Contributors include Steve Rogers, JORUM, University of Edinburgh and Laura Bond, NCeSS, University of Manchester A learning object scenario (slides) Tips on planning materials for placement into a digital repository (slides)
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| 5.30 - 6.00 | Informal feedback followed by drinks |
| 7.00 | Dinner at the Manchester Business School (booking essential) |
| Thursday 16 December |
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| 9.30 - 11.00 | Parallel Streams Session 3a - Ethics and confidentiality This session will focus on ways of addressing and overcoming the barriers to sharing information. All data collection exercises address ethical and legal issues, for example informed consent and copyright ownership, but these are often amplified when data are made available on-line as a shared resource – whether for research or teaching. Can individuals be identified? What are the consequences for them? What agreements were given at the time of data collection? Online Ethnographic Research: Method, Ethics and Practice Bruce Mason and Matthew Williams, Cardiff University This session will outline the main ethical dilemmas of carrying out ethnographic research online. The first section will delineate the more general ethical issues, while the second will focus upon the distribution of ethnographic research within the online environment. Maintaining confidentiality for qualitative interviews Louise Corti, Qualidata Disclosure problems in providing design information for surveys Gillian Raab, Napier University Session 3b - Technical strand: Methods of sharing information Contributors include
Cormac Connelly, ESRC and Sam Smith, CCSR, University of Manchester This session will cover sharing of information across services. The first section will briefly cover what the ESRC Information Centre will do, and how it works with ESRC-related services. The second section covers methods currently used by several projects to distribute information on events and activities both within and externally to the projects. Over half the session will be spent in discussion of topics mentioned. Reusing Data (presentation) Reusing Data (slides) Sam Smith, University of Manchester Methods for sharing online resources Cormac Connolly, ESRC |
| 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.30 - 1.00 | Session 4 - Joining-up online resources There are major ESRC and JISC-led initiatives to bring together and make readily accessible information and resources. This session will provide participants with an update on latest developments. It will also ensure that developers of online resources find out how their materials will be ‘joined-up’ and made accessible to the academic and wider community. Astrid Wissenburg and Cormac Connolly, ESRC Resource Discovery for Researchers in e-Social Science (ReDRESS) Rob Crouchley, University of Lancaster |
| 1.00 | Buffet lunch |
| 1.30 | Session 5 - Long-term maintenance of online resources What happens to online resources after they have been developed? How do they get maintained? Who pays for this? This session will consider a range of possible solutions. (1) JORUM as a longer-term solution for learning resources Michael Dodds, MIMAS (2) The Data Archive: what long term maintenance it can offer Louise Corti, The Data Archive (3) Curation
and preservation of online resources: the DCC and options for Robin Rice, Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh Discussion |
| 2.30 - 3.30 | Session 6 - Using the GRID to support data-sharing Towards
Remote Collaboration Over Video Data: Jon Hindmarsh and
Katie Best, King's College London |
| 3.30 | End |
(18/01/2005)
