A bit of fun this morning!
http://blog.ducttapeuni.org/quaacs-not-moocs/
Mick and Hilary from the Duct Tape Uni team are in Bristol at the moment
at the JISC SOSI <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/student-innovation> summer
school doing a bit of work on the communications around the project and
we have come up with an interesting way of explaining it in a nutshell.
Instead of creating *MOOCs* (think slow moving cows), Duck Tape
University will help projects to create *QUAACs* -
*QUAACs* are *Q*uick*U*ser-led*A*ccessible*A*cademic*C*ommunities*.*
Are you a Quack-a-demic?
*QUAACs* are small, domain specific, community created mini-repositories
which can act as a user-friendly front-end to larger repositories like
Jorum, FLOSS Manuals <http://flossmanuals.org/> and other OER
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources> from diverse
sources.
*QUAACs* are fun, accessible ways of experimenting with the advantages
of networked learning and the power of using Open Educational Resources
within an environment of quality control and reflective practice.
*QUAACs* use a co-design process to work with a fledgling community of
use (e.g. a University department, a subject-specific project or an
existing learning community) to create a resource sharing tool that is
large enough to be flexible but small enough to find what you need by
browsing or searching.
*QUAACs* embody the way of the web (think feet). They find it easy to
fly between sites and they use lightweight flexible metadata solutions
like LRMI <http://www.lrmi.net/> to help them to be found by other
Quaac-heads.
So if you want to take part in creating the world's first QUAAC in
Manchester- see this post
<http://blog.ducttapeuni.org/2014/07/08/duct-tape-university-summer-school-community-arts-north-west/>
