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Brent, Isabelle; Gibbs, Graham R.; Gruszczynska, Anna Katarzyna – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2012
The field of Social Research Methods is shared not only by the social sciences, but by many other disciplines. There is therefore enormous scope for the creation and re-use of open educational resources (OERs) in this area. However, our work with social scientists on a number of recent projects suggests that barriers exist to OER creation and use…
Descriptors: Expertise, Communities of Practice, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Brasher, Andrew; McAndrew, Patrick – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2009
This paper describes how digital talking books (DTBs) with embedded functionality for learners can be generated from content structured according to the OU OpenLearn schema. It includes examples showing how a software transformation developed from open source components can be used to remix OpenLearn content, and discusses issues concerning the…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Educational Resources, Costs, Web Sites
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Shum, Simon Buckingham; Okada, Alexandra – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008
Knowledge Cartography is the discipline of visually mapping the conceptual structure of ideas, such as the connections between issues, concepts, answers, arguments and evidence. The cognitive process of externalising one's understanding clarifies one's own grasp of the situation, as well as communicating it to others as a network that invites…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Web Sites, Cartography, Electronic Publishing