Survey - Last Call extended

I have not done all that I might to publicise the extension to the survey (there are reasons) but it WILL close at the end of August, so if you have not yet tried it, or told friends about it, please do that now.

Here is a link to a PDF showing the questions (think of all the lovely open data this will allow us to share and use and compare ...)

Here is a link to the charities we have nominated to benefit (three of these will get £100 each, nominated by those who complete the survey.

We already have 150 UK respondents so we would love more, but would really really love more from people who are outside the UK to broaden our view.

Please disseminate. Not a lot of time left now.

Chris

Oriole Really Re(Useful) Retreat

The ORIOLE RR Retreat took place from 12-14 June. It was a deliberately (perhaps too) unstructured time for people to bring their ideas to the surface and share, travelling along what I am starting to call the Promise/Practice continuum. Some very interesting work and a notable role play led by Helen Beetham. A sampling of the artefacts has been collected together on a posterous site http://oriolerr.posterous.com/ by Simon Thomson (Leeds Met), much of it captured by the resident artist Karen Cropper (OLNET is only her 'day job'). Here is a pic of where it happened.

Working with Helen and Karen on a Blurb book to capture some of the event, including some elements which will be reuable (of course) and the whole thing as an open resource. Naturally.

Go to ORIOLE retreat Posterous site



Survey link now live to end of July - your entry will count (if you missed it before)

In order to try and allow time to collect more international responses to the survey, the link is now back up and will remain live until 31 July.

So please continue to publicise and, if you are UK-based and missed this the first time around please have a go this time. Its the same survey so don't do it twice please. Once is enough. I really appreciate the time those who did it earlier took on this. Some interesting data is emerging. More on this soon. Meanwhile if your own experience is not part of that data please have a go now.

Thanks

Chris

UK phase of ORIOLE survey coming to an end ...

UK views (mainly) were collected between 5-26 May. The link is now removed. If you are curious about what questions got asked here is a PDF copy (http://bit.ly/irTMpZ). Think of how useful it would be to have answers to some of these ...
We'll have some preliminary info to share with you (UK only) at the end of June and a whole load more from July onwards. The data, where possible, will be released as open data to inform research in this area as widely as possible.
Thank you to the 162 who have answered and special thanks to these guys.  Survey is closed for the next week but if you are UK-based and missed it in May it will be back in June as the International Edition (and you can do that one).

Chris

Starting off the survey ...

The ORIOLE team, and some friends at Glasgow Caledonian and Oxford Universities (thanks Anoush, Colin, Liz and David) have been agonising and arguing about what questions we would like to know answers to. The questions that we would really like to ask n-zillion people, but don't have the resources for. The small gaps in research into reuse and sharing that we would like to fill. The result is a survey directed at people who use learning and teaching resources in practice. If you are one of these please read on ...

The survey is open from 5-26 May 2011 and should take less than 30 minutes of your time. Access via the START SURVEY button on right. We would really appreciate your input and have offered a 'reward' for completion of the survey. You will be able to nominate three charities from several options, or the same charity up to three times. The top three will each receive a £100 donation on behalf of the survey respondants. So you will be helping us and being charitable too.

Anything wrong about this survey is undoubtedly my fault. It has been inspired by some other memorable surveys in the history of reuse. Notably that by the CD-LOR (Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories) project. Data will be shared. For early sight of the results do the survey and indicate that you would like to know more.

JUST A LITTLE WARNING: If you were about to follow the START SURVEY link with trusty iPad or mobile device in hand note that the questions arranged as card sorts show as very large grids on some devices and in some browsers. Apologies and suggestion that you might care to use a more conventional desktop to have a more comfortable experiences.

Thanks

Chris

Launching ... Launching .... she's airborne!

This is very much the beta version of a website for the ORIOLE project. This is a project which, in its first stage, is led by Chris Pegler (Open University) as part of her National Teaching Fellowship project activity. But is a team effort - see people - and we hope will become over time more of a community affair.

During Phase 1 (to end of July 2011) there will be an online survey around reuse and open resources. Results will be shared, so please take part and check back here for further dissemination. There will also be activity at the up-coming Association of National Teaching Fellows symposium at University of Leicester (9-10 May) and a retreat at Woburn (12-13 June).

So, lots of activity in this phase and some interesting learning to share. Watch this space ...