Open Access to Research: A Broad Take On Understanding policy, preparing for the future

Looking at the Wider Picture of Open Access and other Open Agendas affecting Universities

Open Access: How the Case Has Been Made

How the argument for Open Access hasd been made to government and the research industry over the last ten years.

Introduction to Knowledge Representation

Focussing on Open Data and the need for cleaning data

Open Access

A current movement for organising and disseminating the world’s research through Web technology

Panopto lecture capture: How to control access to your recordings

This short 3-minute video show how you can make a recording available to anyone on the internet and how to restrict access again. It also shows how to disable and re-enable student access to a specific recording.

Controlling Access to Panopto Recordings

This 6-minute video shows tutors how they can control access to recordings made using panopto. They can disable access completely, restrict access to specific individuals or make a recording available to anyone in the world.

An Open Letter to Educators. Dan Brown's Rant about Universities

An (ex) student says what he thinks about the education systems and universities.

Teacher Training Videos

Free online training resources on using web 2.0 tools for busy lecturers. - 'Outstanding ICT initiative of the year' winner of the JISC award is commended for 'commitment to open access to online content' A wealth of openly available multimedia content won the JISC/Times Higher Award. Created by University of Westminster lecturer Russell Stannard's websites build upon pioneering work using video to mark students' work. Using screen recording software, Stannard recorded himself walking through various Web 2.0 technologies with a voice-over, which were then uploaded to a website - www.teachertrainingvideos.com. The site quickly proved popular and rapidly built into a bank of over 30 videos.