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This page pulls together information about the OPITE project including background information about the "Digital Futures in Teacher Education" project
About the OPITE project
The OPITE project is part of the work of the UK Open Educational Resources programme run by the Higher Education Academy. The aim of this strand is to work with UK Higher Education institutions to devise strategies and policies to promote their work at institution level, through their Open Educational Resources (OER), to an international audience. One of the key objectives is to benchmark good practices in OER transferability across borders and explore practitioners’ experiences of using open educational resources internationally. See also Project Blog.
Background to OPITE - about the Digital Futures in Teacher Education project
OPITE builds on the "Digital Futures in Teacher Education" (DeFT) project undertaken at Sheffield Hallam University (October 2011- October 2012), whose aim was to develop guidance on digital literacy practice and the use of Open Educational Resources in teaching and learning.
The two key outputs of the project were:
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The Open textbook - an Open Resource on Digital Literacy for Educators, Teachers and Schools which explores the challenges of involving learners with digital literacies; incorporating the two core elements: digital literacies in the context of professional development and digital literacies for creative learners
The OT comprises 100,000 words arranged in 6 chapters and contains 2 'alternative' tables of contents: 1) Key Questions and 2) Digital Literacy for Teachers
It also has a unique Thinking Space function that allows users to 'like', 'tag', 'annotate' and 'export' content to a personalised open textbook (under development).
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Digital Bloom - in the DeFT project Digital Bloom became a focus to explore the intersections of digital literacy and creativity and to reflect on the relationship between creativity and learners’ digital literacy practice, both inside and outside formal education institutions. The central metaphor for these activities was ‘Digital Bloom’: an abstract concept represented by a field of flowers, where each flower reflects an individual understanding of digital literacy and the field symbolises the social layer. See the Case Study. In this public meadow the project team and partners reflected on digital literacy.
The Digital Bloom application has been used by several schools in 'private' meadows:
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Background to OPITE - About the UKOER programme
OPITE is part of the UK Open Educational Resources initiative (20109-2012), which is led jointly by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the Higher Education Academy on behalf of HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England). Building on two previous phases (UKOER1, UKOER2) work is now underway in 2011-12 to support the continued application of OER and related activity and processes to issues and challenges across the English HE (including HE in FE) sector and related areas.
Key dates and milestones
Start: 1 November 2012
Project workshop: 12-14 December 2012, Krakow, Poland
Draft final report: 21 December 2012
Case study: 25 January 2013
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