Unicycle

What is Unicycle?

A project to setup up an institutional
Open Educational Resource (OER) repository
at Leeds Met
Unicycle
What?
Why?
Why not? - At Leeds Met we should
be proud of our work. Staff produce some
excellent materials every day - why shouldn't
we share them?
How?
Identify materials staff already have.
Check quality & copyright.
Package them appropriately.
Host them on Leeds Met's respository.
Make them available through JORUM.
What Next?
Identify some pilot modules.
get them to offer materials
of module for OER use.
get them to use OER materials
for teaching on the module
create a mini cycle
STAGE ONE
http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com
Where are we at?
1200 Hours of material identified.
Network meeting planned.
Requests for pilot modules to be circulated.
Material placed on respoitory.
To make access repository available.
Project Outputs
reports on process and proceadures
reflection on progress and issues arising
influencing policy
engagement of staff use in oer
awareness raising of oer
awareness of open licenses and copyright
completed repository with 3600 hours of content
How can I help?
Glad you asked!
begin to use materials from the repository when made public
offer materials you create to the respository
think about copyright - where did that image come from?
use creative commons http://www.creativecommons.org to search for images, video & sounds

visit our project website - http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com
http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com