Hot off the press is a talk we've just recorded on ebooks from head of Oxford University Press. Niko has agreed for it to be CC but our delivery system won't update the licence until later today.
The talk gets going at around 11 mins talking about libraries, metrics and discoverability ...
"Ebooks, Reading and Scholarship in a Digital Age"
Niko Pfund, President of Oxford University Press (USA), discusses the ways in which technology affects reading, scholarship, publishing and even thinking
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ebooks-reading-and-scholarship-digital-age-audio
and this email gives me a nice chance to plug our lovely OER project that surfaces 3,000 ebooks ->
"Great Writers Inspire
http://writersinpire.org/
Great Writers Inspire brings together thousands of literature resources which are made freely available for reuse, remixing and repurposing for the benefit of teaching and learning worldwide. Both new and existing open educational resources (OER) have been curated into collections by Oxford University scholars to inspire a new generation of literature students.
• 185 lectures from podcasts.ox.ac.uk
• 3030 ebooks; of which 2724 from the Oxford Text Archive, 156 from the Oxford Google Books Project, 115 from ebooks@Adelaide
• 115 OERs from external sources
• 41 new audio recordings
• 32 new video recordings
• 87 new scholarly essays.
Surfacing pre-existing materials (e.g. from the Oxford Text Archive and the Oxford Google Books Project) would not have been possible without the Creative Commons licence, allowing Great Writers Inspire to exploit existing archives of texts and other media.
Involving students as producers and users of OER has been a particular success of the project. It provided a simple framework to allow them to communicate and publish, increasing their digital literacy and introducing them to the benefits of open academic practice. By recruiting graduate students the project was assured of academic-level content from contributors who were closer to the target audience.
Worth a moment is the blog - including a recent post by a graduate student - 'Down the Rabbit Hole: Discovering Open Educational Resources"
http://writersinspire.wordpress.com/
In summary, Great Writers Inspire provides a unique resource for literature educators and students to easily download, reuse and share high quality literary materials for free. "
Peter Robinson
Manager LTG Services
Learning Technologies Group,
Oxford University IT Services,
13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN. Tel: 01865 283282 [log in to unmask]
Great Writers - http://writersinpire.org/
1,000s of Openly licenced lectures from Oxford University - http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open
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