Open Education Research at De Montfort University

The School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort, led by Dr Vivien Rolfe, have released teaching resources as part of two national OER projects run by the JISC and the HEA. Virtual Analytical Laboratory (VAL) contains laboratory skills resources and SCOOTER are more specialist materials on the subject of sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia. VAL was launch in October 2008 and has received over 10,000 visits from around the world (Google Analytics). SCOOTER was launched in November 2010 and is already building up an impressive following via the website and social networks.

SCOOTER Teaching Resources Website http://www.sicklecellanaemia.org

The research outputs from VAL and SCOOTER are listed below:

Dissemination

2010 OER Dissemination Event
University College London, 31st March
Demonstration of VAL by VAL team M Ioannou, S Oldroyd and D Gray.

 

2010 Open Educational Resources
Clare College Cambridge, 22-24 March
-presentation on staff attitudes towards open content by Dr V Rolfe.
Available at SlideShare

 

The 3rd Science Learning and Teaching Conference
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh 16-17 June 2009
- presentation by Dr V Rolfe.
Available at SlideShare

"Development and Implementation of VAL" - case study by Dr V Rolfe.
Hea Bioscience Case Study
[Available at: http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/ftp/casestudies/VRolfe.pdf]

 

"Virtual Analytical Laboratory" - short article by Dr V Rolfe.
Biosicence Bulletin 26
[Available at: http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/ftp/newsletters/bulletin26.pdf