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Cover Sheet for Proposals
Name of Initiative: HEA/JISC
HEA/JISC Open Educational Resources (OER) Phase
Grant Funding 10/11
Three Programme: Embedding and Sustaining Change.
Strand 4 - OER Themes
Name of Lead Institution:
University of the Arts London (UAL)
Name of Proposed Project:
ALTO UK
Name(s) of Project Partners(s)
(except commercial sector – see
below)
HEA ADM Subject Centre
Herriot Watt University, The School of Textiles and
Design
Jorum Service, MIMAS, University of Manchester
Kirklees College, Creative Industries, Ceramics
University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts, Broadcast Media
This project involves one or
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
more commercial sector partners Laurence King Publishing Ltd.
YES
Bright Lemon Ltd., London
Full Contact Details for Primary Contact:
Name: John Casey
Position: ALTO project Manager
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 020 7514 8056
Fax: 020 7514 8050
Address: 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY
Length of Project: 10 months
Project Start
Date:
3rd October 2011
Total Funding Requested:
Project End
Date:
31 July 2012
£198,189
Funding requested broken down across Financial Years (April-March)
April 11 – March 12
April 12 – March 13
£119,189
£79,000
Total Institutional Contributions:
£169,838
1. Outline Project Description: The aim of this ambitious project is the creation of both
‘Collect’ and ‘Release’ types of OERs in relation to the identified Strand 4 Themes and
Contexts described below. The end user groups for this project will be art and design staff
and students in the project partners, the UK and elsewhere as well as lifelong learners. The
project is built on existing relationships between the partners and is characterised by strong
collaboration between HE institutions, commercial publishers, the FE sector, a JISC digital
literacy project, as well as the wider OER community. ALTO UK will also feature a
collaboration between two OU SCORE fellows in the UAL and Brighton to explore and
contrast institutional contexts in relation to OER engagement. The project features
appropriate and realistic technical innovation to support the project aims and objectives by
providing a social media platform for collaboration in the creation and dissemination of the
OERs for art and design subjects.
2. The ALTO UK project builds on the experience and knowledge gained in the JISC OER
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Phase 1 and 2 programmes and will adopt the successful ADM HEA Centre Phase 2 OER
project methodology and tools, adapted from the HEA Change Academy. Another key
influence on the project will be the experience of the UAL ALTO Phase 2 Release project
that successfully adopted a social media approach to representing practice based
knowledge, significantly lowering the threshold to OER engagement in art and design sector
subjects. In addition, a cornerstone of the project will be the support of an international
expert advisory group who will work with the project partners to identify sustainable future
development opportunities.
3. UAL is uniquely placed to lead this project as the largest arts, design and communications
university in Europe. The two key sectors of UAL leading this bid, the Centre for Learning
and Teaching in Art and Design (CLTAD) and Information Services, have accumulated
extensive expertise and experience in the area of managing learning resources having been
involved in OER Phase 1 and 2 projects. CLTAD is regarded as a leader in developing Art
and Design higher education, and the uses of e-learning in art and design higher education.
Information Services have a demonstrated commitment to collecting, curating and
disseminating digital content as part of the University's contribution to the documentation of
the arts, such as developing open source online resources from the Kubrick archive, which
the UAL holds. All the project staff in the UAL and the partners are in post and ready to start
work in October.
I have looked at the example FOI form at
YES
Appendix A and included an FOI form in this
bid
I have read the Funding Call and associated
Terms and Conditions of Grant at Appendix B
YES
B.
Appropriateness and fit to Programme Objectives and Overall value to the
JISC and academic communities
4. Overview: The focus of the ALTO UK project will be related to these Strand 4 themes and
contexts.
4.1 Theme A: Extend OER through collaborations beyond HE
• Element i. Work with another sector of education/training.
The project will collaborate with Kirklees FE College, to produce OERs in the endangered
subject area of ceramics.
4.2 Theme B: Explore OER publishing models
• Element i. Collaboration with commercial publishers.
The project will work with two major commercial publishers, Bloomsbury and Laurence King, to
explore innovative publishing models in relation to OER creation and sharing. The project will
collaborate with both publishers to negotiate the release of a substantial amount of their
resources under Creative Commons licenses to incorporate into new OERs.
• Element ii. Using a range of openly licensed collections of materials as the basis for new
resources.
The project will have access to a range of openly licensed resources to incorporate into new
OERs that both commercial publishing partners have committed to release under Creative
Commons licenses in art and design subjects, including the endangered areas of ceramics,
textiles and printmaking. The project will also search existing sources of OERs through a range
of OER providers and aggregator services to identify additional resources that can be used as
the basis of new OERs.
4.3 Theme C: Addressing sector challenges
• Element iii. Enabling Sustainable Economic Practice.
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Teaching in the art and design sector has tended to remain a place-based practice but economic
pressures are increasingly making this pedagogical model less financially sustainable,
exacerbating existing problems in the growing list of endangered subjects. The project will
produce relevant and accessible OERs, to introduce those in these kinds of subjects to flexible
and blended learning methods and concepts. These resources will be based on existing openly
available licensed resources such as those made available by JISC1 and other organisations
such as UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning. This project will also use Learning
Design templates for creating OERs in practice-based subjects developed in the UAL ALTO
Phase 2 project.
• Element iv. Preserving the breadth of UK higher education in a time of consolidation.
A growing list of subjects in Art and Design are becoming endangered by both financial
pressures and declining student recruitment. The project will work with ceramics, textiles and
printmaking practitioners in the academic partners and with the publishing partners who will
release some of their content in these areas, to create OERs to preserve subject knowledge and
teaching approaches. Rich media, especially video, will be used to capture processes and
techniques in these endangered subjects and will constitute a knowledge bank for the future.
4.4 Theme D: Enhancing the student experience (working with the UAL DIAL project to
support the creation of OERs)
Element i. Resources to support university applicants.
As noted in the OER Phase 3 call, there is a strong link between OER practices and digital
literacies. The project intends to leverage this synergy by working closely with staff and students
involved in the UAL JISC Digital Literacy DIAL project (Digital Integration into Arts Learning) to
mentor them to create and release OERs. The subject context is an important aspect of digital
literacy in HE and the creation of OERS from the DIAL project that illustrate this will be of use to
those wanting to study Art and Design. This should help students make a successful transition
into studying at this level. This activity will not be a central focus of OER production in the ALTO
UK project but should significantly enhance the effectiveness of the DIAL project.
5. Project Objectives: To support the project aims of creating both ‘Collect’ and ‘Release’ types
of OERs to support the identified Strand 4 Themes and Contexts the project will have the
following objectives.
1. Create and release a significant amount of OERs equivalent to an undergraduate degree
course of study through: (a) Co-creation of resources with academics in FE and HE
partner institutions including in the endangered subjects of ceramics, textiles and
printmaking as well as painting, drawing, fashion and digital media. (b) Negotiation of
release of content from commercial publishing partners and identification of other openly
licensed resources from OER services
2. Through these activities address sector challenges of: (a) sustainability by preserving
knowledge and teaching methods of endangered subjects that may otherwise be lost to
the post-secondary sector. (b) engaging academics in art and design in the exploration of
flexible and blended learning models
3. Enhance deposit and use of OERs in art and design by creating a dynamic collaborative
social media based platform: (a) linked to Jorum. (b) with clear policies of use for the
project partners and potentially the wider HE sector. (c) Integrated into the wider OER
ecosystem
4. Explore, with the UAL DIAL project, how creation and use of OERs can contribute to the
digital literacy of staff and students in art and design
5. Support the transition of students into HE art and design by making stimulating and
visually engaging OERs in these subject areas accessible to potential students
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Such as the JISC eLIDA Camel project and The Good Practice Guides to Designing e-Learning and the
emerging outputs from the JISC Curriculum Design and Delivery Programmes as well as a range of JISC
infokits such as Learning Resources and Activities and OERs
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6. Developing a roadmap for future developments for international use, through
collaboration with an international expert advisory group
6. Innovative Approaches: Engaging with OER creation and sharing presents challenges to the
Art and Design community where there is a strong tradition of studio-based practice and
learning. Traditional didactic resources such as lecture notes and project briefs can be scarce in
these subject areas, with the result that there can be ‘gaps’ when trying to create OERs along
the lines pioneered by OpenCourseware at MIT and OpenLearn at the OU. Fortunately there is
an existing UAL initiative called Process.Arts, which offers some of the answers for capturing
and sharing such situated and practice-based learning. Process.Arts is a social media platform
(http://process.arts.ac.uk) that supports ways of representing and sharing such tacit knowledge.
Video, image and audio documentation has been found to be the preferred media for capturing
and sharing practice based art and design tutorials and resources. For instance, the Introduction
to Sand Casting videos (4 parts): these videos have been received well, attracting positive
comments and over 100,000 views via YouTube - http://process.arts.ac.uk/content/sand-castingintroduction-philip-white-jenny-dunseath. These videos have been short-listed for the annual
Jorum Teaching and Learning Competition.
7. The ALTO UK project will extend the Process.Arts software from the institutional to the
national level to give each partner an institutionally branded open space to share these kinds of
media rich OERs as well as the other OERs produced by the project. The platform is based on
the popular open source web content management system Drupal (http://drupal.org/) and
provides a user-friendly interface, rich media tools and easy integration with the rest of the Web
2.0 infrastructure such as Twitter, Facebook and Google. Process.Arts was the only UK
nomination in the first international 2011 OCW People's Choice Awards contest2.
8. An innovative aspect of the project is the proposal to link the ALTO UK Drupal software
platform to Jorum, the national UK learning resource repository service. The idea is very simple;
the Jorum repository becomes the officially branded ‘library’ part of ALTO UK while the
institutional social media sites and communities associated with the Drupal platform become the
‘workshop’ or ‘studio’ areas where knowledge and resources are co-created and shared3. In turn,
selected resources from the Drupal environment can be further developed for deposit in Jorum
for longer-term storage and sharing, while resources already in Jorum can be ‘surfaced’ in the
Drupal environment. In this way a more informal and granular aspect of resource sharing can be
supported in the Drupal environment. While larger or more formal resources from Jorum can be
brought into the Drupal environment for sharing, discussion, reworking and can even be redeposited into Jorum for the long term. This approach is based on the evidence of its success in
art and design in the UAL ALTO project.
9. These innovative approaches, being based on 100% free and open source software (Dspace
and Drupal), have gained the interest of the international OER community as possibly providing
more sustainable ways for organisations and individuals to engage with the OER agenda. OER
Africa and UNESCO are particularly interested in lowering the threshold to engagement and
dissemination as well the possibility of providing shared regional and national scalable services
at low cost. As such, an international development advisory group has been formed to advise the
project on future lines of development:
Development Advisory Group
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http://educationportal.com/articles/Vote_Online_for_the_2011_OCW_Peoples_Choice_Awards.html
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This approach was presented at the OCWC 2011 conference at MIT and at OER 11 in the UK
and received positive comments. To read a short overview please see
http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/alto/alto-ecosystem/
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National Digital Learning Resources, Ireland. Catherine Bruen, Manager, Bob Strunz
Chief Technical Architect
OER Africa, Catherine Ngugi, Project Director, Neil Butcher, OER Strategist
Open Michigan, Emily Puckett, Open Education Coordinator
Open University of the Netherlands, Wolfgang Greller, Professor for New Media
Technologies and Knowledge Innovation
Open University of Catalonia UNESCO Chair in e-Learning, Emma Kiselyova Executive
Director, Julià Minguillón Academic Director
EDINA, Gareth Waller, Senior Software Engineer, Jorum Dspace
Carnegie College, Scotland Tom McMaster, Head of Centre for Innovation in Learning and
Teaching
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OpenCourseWare Consortium, Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director, Meena Hwang,
Director of Community Outreach
CETIS, John Robertson, Learning Technology Advisor JISC OER Programme
10, Partner Benefits
• UAL – OER sharing to improve student recruitment by providing a ‘shop window’ to look
into practice at the UAL, for students to make more informed choices, which in turn can
translate into better retention rates. OER engagement can improve internal
communication and cooperation amongst the 6 highly autonomous art colleges that
comprise the UAL.
• Kirklees – The opportunity to expand the Kirklees HE ‘brand’. To provide a means to
promote the more specialist courses of study in the arts, especially in subjects like
ceramics and to reach out to potential students as a recruiting tool in ways that the
central college website cannot easily do. To provide a platform for staff to promote their
own work, network with other interested individuals and groups like local development
agencies and art organizations.
• Brighton – To promote the work of the Arts Faculty and Broadcast Media at Brighton by
providing a social media platform for staff and students and to aid student recruitment
and provide an effective open platform for sharing a growing collection of rich media.
Opening up new opportunities between Brighton and UAL to explore open educational
practice across institutions, building on the research of two SCORE fellows working in
respective institutions.
• School of Textiles and Design, Herriot Watt University – To provide a way of
capturing and sharing skills in textile and fashion related studies. To provide an effective
student recruitment tool and promotional platform for a geographically isolated specialist
art college that is part of a larger technology-based university
• ADM HEA Centre – Provides a way for the centre to continue to disseminate the work it
has done in Phases 1 and 2, particularly the methodology and support tools developed in
their Phase 2 project (based on the HEA Change Academy) which ALTO UK will use with
the project partners with consultancy support from the ADM staff. The project also fulfills
a way for the centre to engage its own host institution formally with the benefits of OER
agenda.
11. Sector Benefits: Longer-term the ALTO UK proposal and concept has the potential to
provide a ‘shared services’ approach that is aligned with current policy priorities4 and helps to
meet some pressing unmet needs. These needs in the UK Art and Design HE community are for
an easy mechanism to publish content to the open web. This need has been driven by the desire
for a platform for academic and professional promotion and networking, the online organisation
and public showing of student projects and the projection of the distinctive culture of art and
design studies. Many institutional infrastructures and service departments struggle to meet the
need for an easy online publishing platform resulting in staff often using external web hosting
4
For example see Collaborate to compete: Seizing the opportunity of online learning for UK
higher education
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providers, web design companies, and Web 2.0 services; causing waste, duplication, extra costs
and lost opportunities for the sector. This project proposes to capitalize on this service vacuum
by providing an on-demand easy to use web-publishing platform and social networking tool for
staff and students in this disciplinary area. This same platform will provide opportunities for
users to release their resources as OERs with Creative Commons licenses, significantly lowering
the threshold to engaging with OER creation, sharing, collaboration and reuse – critical for ling
term sustainability5. Linking the service to Jorum also encourages users to think longer-term by
depositing in the national learning resource repository and will expose them to the resources
available in Jorum for possible repurposing and reuse.
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Quality of proposal and robustness of work plan
12. ALTO UK Project Aims: The ALTO UK project aims are to meet the Strand 4 programme
OER themes to develop the growth of OER and benefit the project partners as outlined in section
B above. A longer-term vision of the project partners has the aim of developing a service to
support a sustainable Art and Design OER community in the UK that is engaged in the codesign, development and use of OERs to extend open educational practices6 in these subject
areas in the UK.
13. Timetable
Earliest
Latest End
Start Date
Date
Work Package 1 Set Up
September September
October
October
Activity
Outputs
Project Funding Agreed
Project Consortium
Agreement
Meet with Project partners Meeting
to agree communication
schedule,
plan, meeting schedule
communication
and project plan, including plan and project
evaluation
plan
October
October
Submit Project Plan
Project plan
October
November
Project plan on institution
UAL project
website
website
Work package 2 Project Management Activities
October
July
Evaluation, Budgeting and
Report Writing, Convening
meetings arranging
dissemination etc
Work Package 3 Project Team Formation
October
November
Orientation, development
and access to information
resources to partner
liaison staff
Work Package 4 Negotiate action plan targets with partners
October
November
Hold Focus Group
meetings with partners to
collect information
November
November
Produce Focus Group
Reports
reports
November
November
Develop partner action
Reports
plans
Responsible
JISC
Partners, PM
PM
PM
PM
PM
PM, Partner
Liaison staff
PM, Partner
Liaison staff
PM, Partner
Liaison staff
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The ALTO UK platform also meets the several of the JISC OER Phase 1 aspirations set out in
the ‘Leeds Manifesto’, notably for more usable tools for dissemination
6
We have found the definition of open educational practices from the EU OPAL project
(http://opal.innovationpros.net/publications/guide/) really helpful and would use this in ALTO UK.
6
Work Package 5 Establish Drupal based social media platform
October
January
Redevelop Process.Arts
Software,
software and test
Documentation
and Test
Reports
October
January
Commission Web server
Working web
and install software
site
PM, Software
Developer
PM, Software
Developer, UAL
IS
Work Package 6 Work with partners to collect and release OERs
December
June
Identify and evaluate
Reports
PM, partner
possible resources
Liaison staff
December
June
Carry out alterations and
OERs
PM, project staff
media design work to
create OERs
December
June
Deposit OERs in Drupal
OERs in ALTO
PM, project staff
platform
UK Drupal web
site
Work Package 7 Work with commercial publishers partners to release some of their content
in the form of OERs and explore mutually beneficial ways of working together in the future
December
June
Evaluate resources for
Report
Publishers, PM,
release in relation to the
project staff
project target subject
areas
December
June
Carry out conversion work OERs
PM, project staff
to create OERs
January
June
Explore a range of OER
Reports, web
Publishers, PM,
publishing models with
site prototypes
project staff
publishers via workshops
for evaluation
and small scale trials
Work Package 8 Work with the commercial social media and Drupal expert partner to scope
and develop the design of the ALTO UK platform and to develop marketing strategies
October
October
Orientation meetings and
Report and work Drupal partner,
workshop with partner to
specification
PM, project staff
agree action plan
agreement
November
July
Design upgrades and
Reports and
Drupal partner,
functionality
software
PM, project staff
enhancements
upgrades
May
July
Marketing and
Report
Drupal partner,
development strategy
PM, project staff
Work Package 9 Work with development advisory group
October
December
Consult on sources of
relevant OERs
October
July
Scope future development
and collaboration
opportunities
Report
Report, possible
funding
applications
Advisory Group,
PM, project staff
Advisory Group,
PM, project staff
Work Package 10 Investigate and develop a range of metrics and key performance indicators
for the service for use by individuals, institutions and future potential funders and partners.
October
July
Consult with Drupal expert Report
Drupal partner,
partner
PM, project staff
October
July
Consult with search
Report
SEO experts,
engine optimization (SEO)
PM, project staff
experts
January
July
Carry out trials
Test results
PM, project staff
January
July
Produce synthesis report
Report
PM, project staff
Work Package 11 Work with educational and commercial partners and the advisory group to
explore a range of service configurations and funding models to support long-term
sustainability
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November
July
Discussions and
Workshops
PM, project
staff, partner
staff
March
July
Synthesis report
PM, project staff
Work Package 12 Evaluate the project from a range of perspectives (against project aims and
objectives, impact on partners, cultural change and sustainability for the future)
October
July
Project Management
Reports
PM, project
formative and summative
staff,
evaluations
October
July
External Evaluation to
Reports
External
examine impact, cultural
Evaluator
change and sustainability
ALTO UK Work package Timetable
1 Set Up
2 Project Management
3 Project Team
Formation
4 Targets
5 Drupal Platform
6 Collect and Release OERs
7 Work with Publishers collection / release & business models
8 Work with Drupal Consultant on marketing strategies
9 Work with development advisory group
10 Investigate and develop a range of metrics and key performance indicators
11 Investigate sustainable future plans
12 Evaluation activities
1
2
3
4
5
6
MONTHS
7
8
9
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14. Project Management Arrangements: The project will adopt a formal project management
methodology and utilise the JISC project management guidelines. There will be a Project Board:
to include representatives of the partners, the project director and project manager. The project
manager will be line managed by the Associate Dean: Professional Development. The current
Phase 2 ALTO project manager is in post and available to take on this work immediately if the
bid is successful.
15. Risks
Risk
Project
Management
Probability
2
Severity
4
Score
8
Staffing
retention
2
3
6
Partner
Community
Engagement
2
4
4
Senior
management
2
3
6
Actions
We will use project management
expertise within the institution; provide
clear definition of roles and
responsibilities of project team; monitor
project plan; hold regular meetings of
the Project Board
All staff are in place and ready to start.
Major turnover is unlikely to occur in
the project timeframe and most are on
permanent contracts. The project
workers and manager will keep work
logs to ease any transition and retain
project knowledge
The partner action plans will feature an
internal dissemination plan as
developed by the ADM centre in Phase
2
Senior managers have already
expressed their support for this project.
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engagement
Sustainability
2
4
8
Resourcing
3
3
9
Technical
issues
2
2
4
Legal issues
incl. IPR
2
4
8
Following the ADM OER Phase 2
guidelines representatives of senior
management will be involved in the
focus groups discussion
We do not envisage issues with
sustainability as the project is based on
the idea that project members of each
partner community would support each
other. It will become part of the
mainstream through this process rather
than being an add-on activity that relies
on expert input. Management of the
Drupal platform will be costed and
factored into a long-term sustainability
plan.
We believe we have made a realistic
assessment of needs to determine the
resources required; a regular review of
resources will be undertaken
We will use internal technical expertise.
Technical options to support this
project will be analysed early in the
project and infrastructure issues will be
reviewed regularly
We will consult legal expertise within
the organisation and JISC Legal as
needed. The project partners will sign a
consortium agreement that makes clear
arrangements for the management of
the project and any IPR produced.
OERs produced will be issued under a
Creative Commons licences. Software
produced will be made available under
a Creative Commons licence
16. Deliverables
1. Release and collect a significant amount of appealing OERs to support staff, student and
alumni, in arts and design disciplines, including open learning materials, resource
collections, design tools and guidance materials. These will all be licensed under Creative
Commons Licences
2. Development of Innovative OER publishing models including long-term creative
partnerships with the private sector
3. Creation of an innovative and easy to use social media platform that is linked to the
Jorum service to support staff and students in Art and Design to publish OERs, as well as
supporting communication and collaboration activities related to the creation and sharing
of OERs. All software outputs delivered by the project will be licensed under a suitable
open source licence.
4. Appropriate use of tagging and metadata capture/creation. The ALTO UK platform will
use an emphasis on Web 2.0 functionality, enabling effective collaboration and sharing.
Owners can add descriptive data and metadata, and tag content. The descriptive fields
will be mapped to those used by Jorum to make deposit in the repository easier. The
project will follow the guidance provided by the JISC OER infokit, CETIS and the key
metadata guidance provide by Lorna Campbell of CETIS.
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17. Evaluation and Dissemination: UAL welcomes the opportunity to work with JISC in project
management, dissemination and evaluation activities, in particular drawing on expertise
developed through completion of previous projects. Evaluation will be formative and summative
with formative evaluation points at the end of each work package to ensure objectives have been
met and the project is on target to meet its overall objectives. The final project summative
evaluation will include qualitative data generation with stakeholder groups using the HEA ADM
methodology and tools. The qualitative component will assess staff perceptions of OER use as
an indicator of culture change benchmarked against perceptions gathered in the initial focus
group discussions. UAL has worked extensively on evaluating institutional projects in order to
improve our understanding as a community and our subsequent interventions. With regard to
this project, we would incorporate the perspectives of our partners and relevant professional
associations into the evaluation and will work with the HEA ADM centre to adapt their OER
Phase 2 project Change Academy methods and tools to use in this project.
18. The project findings will be disseminated through a dedicated project website, ADM HEA
events and publications and will be presented at relevant JISC events and national conferences
on technology in education, Learning and Teaching in Art and Design and/or Educational
Change Practice. It is anticipated that the results of the evaluation will also be published in a
peer-reviewed journal. The ALTO UK platform itself will also provide an important form of
dissemination with the wider community in general and the growing global OER community. The
project publisher partners are also considering publicity campaigns using social media such as
Twitter and Facebook to engage users in choosing which resources are to be released under a
Creative Commons licence, this has the potential to be a high profile series of media events.
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Engagement with the community
19. The project will build on the successful sector engagement established in Phases 1 and 2 of
the OER Programme and will engage stakeholders in the process of planning, implementing and
evaluating the project through the involvement of project staff and partner stakeholders in
evaluation focus groups. We will continue to work with the wider sector by utilising the ADM HEA
centre community networks, and through constitution of the project board, incorporating external
members. The project is also going to incorporate an international advisory group of experts to
provide a wider perspective and identify future collaboration opportunities for sustainability.
20. UAL welcomes the opportunity to work with the JISC and the Higher Education Academy in
programme management, dissemination and evaluation activities, in particular drawing on
expertise developed through completion of previous projects and access to a range of different
community networks.
21. Project Stakeholder Mapping
Stakeholder
Interest / Stake
Senior Institutional Managers
Policy, Cost/Benefit and Risk
OER Creators and owners
Control, access and
knowledge
JISC
Funding Body
Public
User
Students
User
Academic Teachers
Creator/User and Access
Information professionals
Management
E - Budget
Directly Incurred
Staff
PM 1 fte grade 5 (UAL)
Drupal & Community Manager 0.4 fte grd 5 (UAL)
Drupal S/ware Developer 0.4 fte grd 5 (UAL)
April 11–
March 12 (6m)
£22,476
£12,583
£14,773
Importance
High
High
April 12– March
13 (4m)
£15,000
£8,500
£10,000
High
Medium
Medium
High
High
TOTAL £
£37476
£21,083
£24,773
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Learning Designer 0.2 fte grd 6 (UAL)
Lecturer 0.4 fte (Kirklees)
Lecturer 0.4 fte grd 5 (Herriot Watt)
Lecturer 0.4 fte grd 5 (Brighton)
AD HEA Centre Consultancy
Bright Lemon Social Media Consultancy
Total Directly Incurred Staff (A)
£9,510
£7,774
£10,840
£10,733
£6,000
£4,000
£98,689
£6,400
£5,300
£7,200
£7,100
£4,000
£2,500
£66,000
£15,910
£13,074
£18,040
£17,833
£10,000
£6,500
£164,689
Non-Staff
April 11–
March 12
£6,000
£8,500
£4,000
£2,000
£2000
£22,000
April 12– March
13
£4,000
£2,000
£2,000
2,000
£1,000
£11,500
TOTAL £
Directly Incurred Total (C)
(A+B=C)
£119,189
£79,000
£198,189
Directly Allocated (Partner Composite)
April 12– March
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£23,700
£9,500
£1,000
£34,200
TOTAL £
Staff
Estates
Other
Directly Allocated Total (D)
April 11–
March 12
£35,612
£14,106
£2,000
£51,718
Indirect Costs (E) (Partner Composite)
£50,420
£33,500
£83,920
Total Project Cost (C+D+E)
Amount Requested from Programme
Institutional Contributions
£220,827
£119,189
£101,838
£147,200
£79,000
£68,000
£368,027
£198,189
£169,838
Percentage Contributions over the life of the
project
Programme
54%
Partners
46%
Total
100%
No. FTEs used to calculate indirect and
estates charges, and staff included
3.2
FTEs
Travel and expenses
Hardware/software
Dissemination
Evaluation
Other
Total Directly Incurred Non-Staff (B)
F
£10,000
£10,500
£6,000
£4,000
£3,000
£33,500
£59,312
£23,606
£3000
£85,918
Which Staff – Directly Incurred
22. Previous Experience of the Project Team
University of the Arts London
• Director: Nancy Turner is Associate Dean: Professional Development at CLTAD with
responsibility for leading initial and continuing professional development in learning,
teaching and learning technology at UAL. Nancy is currently the director of the UAL OER
Phase 2 Institutional Release project ALTO.
• Co-Director: Shân Wareing is Dean of Learning and Teaching Development at the
University of the Arts London, where she has responsibility for developing and
implementing the Learning and Teaching Strategy, the eLearning Strategy, and building a
culture of pedagogic research. She was Co-Chair of the national Staff and Educational
Development Association (SEDA) from 2004-2007 and now leads SEDA’s Fellowship
scheme. Director of the HEA Creative Interventions project and the JISC DIAL project.
• Project Board Chair: Pat Christie, Director of Information Services, is responsible for
library services, IT services and information systems at the University. She is a member
of the ARLIS/UK & Ireland National Co-Ordination Committee and was ARLIS Chair
2009-2011. Pat also recently joined the JISC Digital Content Advisory Group. Pat was an
institutional sponsor for the highly successful JISC-funded Kultur Project to establish an
institutional repository model for the creative arts.
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Project Manager: John Casey, currently ALTO project manager and previously project
manager for Jorum where he was instrumental in guiding Jorum to becoming an open
repository service and in the adoption of Creative Commons Licences. Previous JISC
project management roles include TrustDR (IPR), X4L L2L (learning objects) and Clipper
(Video). John has experience in and has published on IPR and staff development for
flexible and distance learning, he designed one of the first online dementia care courses
in the UK with the Stirling Dementia Services Centre.
• Drupal Manager and Community Outreach Coordinator: Chris Follows, currently
ALTO project coordinator and teaching technician at Wimbledon College of Arts, initiator
of the Process.Arts web site and OU SCORE fellow - rich media to share tacit knowledge
• Learning Designer / Instructional Designer: Hywel Davies, currently ALTO project
coordinator at Central St. Martins College of Art and senior lecturer in fashion
communication, author of learning design templates for design and practice-based arts
subjects
• Drupal Developer: Grzesiek Sedek, currently teaching technician at Wimbledon College
of Art. Longstanding member of the Drupal developer community, has developed
numerous Drupal sites including those with rich media content
University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts, Broadcast Media
• Sarah Atkinson Broadcast Media senior lecturer and OU SCORE fellow, interested in
media professionals and academics collaborating in teaching activities through by sharing
‘raw’ audio and video resources
Herriot Watt University, The School of Textiles and Design
• Theresa Coburn Senior Lecturer, Fashion Communication and currently subject reviewer
for the ALTO project in fashion
HEA ADM Subject Centre
• Debbie Flint, academic developer and Stephen Mallinder, researcher and project
manager, both have managed successful Phase 1 and 2 OER projects. Stephen is
currently a member of the ALTO project board. ALTO UK will be applying the outputs of
the ADM Phase 2 OER project, which are based on the HEA Change Academy
Jorum Service, MIMAS, University of Manchester
• Jackie Carter, Director, is interesting in integrating tools Drupal-based tools like the ALTO
UK platform into the service to provide more user-friendly interfaces and collaboration
areas. Advice on shibboleth authentication.
Kirklees College, Creative Industries, Ceramics
• Mark Clough, Award Leader for FdA Ceramics and BA (Hons) Applied Arts and currently
subject reviewer for the ALTO project in ceramics, is also involved with regional arts
groups and life long learning agencies
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Kathryn Earle, Head of Academic publishing - has a long standing relationship to UAL
Laurence King Publishing Ltd.
• Philip Cooper, Editorial Director – has a long standing relationship to UAL
Bright Lemon Ltd., London (Social Media Consultants)
• Leon Tong, Director, has worked on projects with the UAL team previously. Bright Lemon
has considerable experience in designing and building very large social media sites
including one for the British Council in China to support recruitment to UK HE institutions.
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