I'd second this. I've been lucky enough to work with Amber throughout the
3 years of UKOER (maternity and paternity leave notwithstanding). What you
don't see from a public perspective is the high number of interesting
ideas, possibilities, and plans that she comes up with on a daily basis. I
have a mailbox filter which sorts and separates emails that come from
Amber - over the last three years she has sent me 3046 emails. As it is
what she would have wanted ("the people's programme manager"), I've done
some analytics on these:
Number of emails: 3046 (that's an average of 2.7 emails every single day
for three years!)
Number that mention "OER": 1578
Number that mention "metadata": 44
Number that mention "repository" or "repositories": 55
Number that mention "sorry": 257 (about a 50/50 split between me
apologising to her and her apologising to me)
Number that mention "shoes": 4 (most of these referred to these shoes:
http://web.stagram.com/p/171688193315345028_40213107 )
Number that use a common sexual swear-word: 9 (in her defence, in most of
these cases, the word used was mine and she replied in more measured tones(
Emails that have been reused or repurposed: 1020
What are we to make of these numbers - numbers that future policy
historians will surely agree are key to any understanding of the UKOER
programme? Obviously I don't want to pollute them by adding any
qualitative data, and I've not got the art skills to make an infographic.
So we'll say that Amber did lots of things, and many of them involved
emailing me about various things. She mailed me far more than other
people, so therefore she was the best at working with email on ukoer.
As she starts her new role at Coventry's other university, I wonder if
these numbers will go some way to measuring the unique contribution she
has made to UKOER?
No, of course they bloody won't.
Good luck Amber and god speed - we will not see your like again!!
David x
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:42:04 -0000, Peter Robinson
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> Dear All,
>
> I'd just like to take a moment to thank a key member of the UKOER
> community - Amber at JISC - who has helped and supported us all over the
> last 4 years through the various UKOER initiatives. She has helped me
> enormously in my journey in through releasing Open Educational Resources
> at Oxford. I believe Amber is moving on to Warwick in the next few days
> to continue her learning technology work.
>
> From what I've seen over the last few years she has been a fantastically
> positive, pragmatic, insightful manager who has helped co-ordinate and
> steer many different groups of stakeholders through the choppy waters of
> UKOER work and the wider digital repository world.
>
> When we all met up at London recently it was striking how *many* people
> have helped contribute to the open landscape here in the UK and some of
> these people's great work is a little under the radar - UKOER superstars
> like Pat, Lou, Lorna, Phil, David, Suzanne, John R, Tony H, Martin etc
> etc
>
> BTW I thought I'd post a random selection of recent feedback quotes we
> receive to show why this UKOER work is so vital and why we should
> rejoice that we are lucky enough to have had such a nice group of
> JISC/HEFCE people and such forward thinking funding bodies here in the
> UK.
>
> Best Wishes
> Pete
>
> "Thank you for this. I loved it and it has given me many complex ideas
> that I am going to try to incorporate in my gcse teaching. " - 22 Nov
> 2012
>
> "I enjoyed this lecture very much and found it extremely inspiring and
> exciting, thanks for this amazing opportunity."
>
> "Very exciting lecture and made me want to try harder with Blake. But no
> illustrations."
>
> ":I am using this with my Honors British Literature class in a Chicago
> high school as we read Heaney's translation of Beowulf. This is a great
> introduction to a lesson on uses of narration and "shaping" of the text.
> "- 18 Oct 2012
>
> "Listened to this scholarly talk by .. who has rightly diagnosed the
> roots of corruption and its costs. Oxford must continue with such
> knowledge sharing activities. … Ph D Scholar and civil servant, Pakistan
> 15 October, 2012"
>
> "First of all, these free on-line courses are the greatest thing since
> chocolate. Thank you so much and please do keep them coming, especially
> in the Old English department. I seriously wish I could have studied at
> Oxford. Kind regards, S (Spain)"
>
> "Terrific. Wish I could hear the next 3 lectures. Thanks. My mum just
> admitted she had considered sending me to Oxford, but was worried it was
> too far away. What a missed opportunity. At least I can go through these
> podcasts though. And I didn't turn out all that badly after all. "
>
> "I am about to graduate in medicine from India. I, lately started to
> feel a lot more attracted to philosophy than I have ever felt before.
> Because I am a beginner most of stuff I came across was a bit too much
> for me but then I came across your lectures on oxford website. I love
> them! just wanted you to know It interested me to such an extent that I
> do feel like taking up philosophy of religion more seriously and I
> surely would like to read in depth about the subject." - India
>
> "i am B.A. English literature student in Iran..i have been studying
> English for 8 years and English literature about 3 Years as you may
> know...here in this country we have got lots of defects and difficulties
> in this specific field of study, ….. to be honest up to now i did not
> have any clue about this constructive viewpoint on literary works, but
> thanks to you i feel a little moved and motivated." - Iran
>
> I found your lectures very interesting and enjoyable. I have them on
> my IPhone and return to them again and again. You have such a relaxed
> and entertaining style of teaching, while at the same time quite
> respectful of your audience. -Professor Emeritus, US College
>
> "These websites are lovely to wallow around in, and they cover so much
> that might be useful. Just had a nice lecture on - Kyd's 'Spanish
> Tragedy.' Such fun, and I can stop the voice and take notes. This is
> wonderful. Thank you, thank you. And how kind of these professors to
> make the pod-casts. I wish there was a way to let them know how much it
> means to me. Great writers do indeed inspire, and great teachers too." -
> US
>
> " :A clear vision of hope for many struggling to make sense of their
> world - fascinating to listen to....thank this is a great support to my
> coursework."
>
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Robinson
> Manager LTG Services and Oxford on iTunesU
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