Hi Les,
To answer the (easy) initial part of your question.
The Computer Science materials have come from the 'Open Educational Repository in Support of Computer Science' UKOER project being run by the Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre in partnership with London Met, Sheffield Hallam, Teesside, Portsmouth, and the University of the West of England.
The project page is http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/oer/index.php, one interesting note about the project's approach (not currently mentioned on their site) is that all their resources have been reviewed by two committee, one reviewing quality and the other reviewing reusability.
CETIS have been looking at the tracking question throughout the project and are about to start some work looking at this, there's an initial stub for our work here http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Resource_Tracking_for_UKOER .
The good news for everyone is there are still quite a few projects who are only beginning to deposit resources in JorumOpen and the number of resources and subjects covered is going to be worth watching in the next three months.
Kind regards,
john
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-----Original Message-----
From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
Sent: 21 February 2010 11:29
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Subject: Re: a month of JorumOpen
On 19 Feb 2010, at 18:45, P Burnhill wrote:
> what a nice man :)
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> On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Leslie Carr wrote:
>> Congratulations to JorumOpen who have been in business for a whole month! In that time they have amassed 1274 educational resources under various headings, including (I'm pleased to say) an impressive amount of Computer Science.
I was serious about the Computer Science. I have been previously disappointed with JORUM's provision because a good deal of the material that was filed under "CS" was of the "Learn How to Type" genre. I was hopeful for the possibilities that JorumOpen offered, but sceptical that much would change. Now there is a good quantity of undergraduate level computer science - after just one month - and I am genuinely delighted.
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Les
PS Of course, now comes the serious analytical task of working out what has been contributed by whom, and which stakeholders have been impacted by the new service, and how (or if) the OER agenda has been genuinely advanced.
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