Just thought I would provide a quick update as a result of a Skype meeting I participated in yesterday with Lou McGill from the overall evaluation team and the project managers from the other OMAC projects. It was a very useful and informative discussion that:

Reassured me that some of what we  are learning is of broader relevance to others e.g. the issue of ISBNs and OERs – it was suggested I share our blog post on this with the wider OER JISCmail list to see if there are others out …

Following initial success at having had our proposal focusing on the ‘mapping OERs to the UKPSF’ accepted at the International Blended Learning Conference, just to let you know that, on behalf of the team, Babs and I have submitted a case study based proposal based on the experience of developing the Distance Learning OER Unit, to the SEDA/HEA conference in July – Open Horizons: Sharing the future. Who knows if we will be successful but watch this space!

Another project milestone for the project has just been reached! After final amends to include a new ISBN and the relevant Creative Commons information, the Rough Guide to Work-based Learning has just been uploaded to Jorum. This is great news as this topic is still very current but as the Rough Guide requiring the fewest text changes and no IPR/Copyright issues to resolve it is quite sobering how much time and effort it has taken to achieve this point. Nevertheless we have done it and the learning along the way will be …

I am not really sure I should be posting this but in the interests of openness, transparency and realistic evaluation I will. Just got through liasing with MSR etc to get the creative commons icon/link to the licence details added to the latest batch of Rough and Quick Guides ready for Jorum and have just discovered that we have used the latest version fo the relevant CC licence – 3.0 - which Jorum doesn’t currently support so we need to go back and alter everything – will take more time and hold up …

The lastest ‘cat among the pigeons’ is the issue of ISBNs. This concerns the Rough Guides to L&T that we plan to release as part of the project as each of these has its own ISBN. Liasing with our L&IS service, Di as Chair of the Rough Guide Editorial Board and admin colleagues who support our ISBN provision/usage, and a quick chat with the JISC Legal rep at the recent interim meeting, the best advice I can find is that a revised version needs its own ISBN and colleagues amending …