Skills Portal: a study skills and information literacy portal created with Open Educational Resources
| Published | 2013 |
| Series | Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age Chapter 13, Pages 205 - 222 |
| Publisher | Chandos Digital Information Review, Elsevier |
| Editors | Evans, Wendy and Baker, David P. |
ABSTRACT
Skills Portal is an online collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) for undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students to use in self- directed learning. This chapter considers the process of identifying, evaluating and adopting resources for inclusion and discusses the reusing and sharing of learning materials.The main challenge for Skills Portal is getting students to find and use the materials. The main library website was being rebuilt at the same time, giving an opportunity for liaison librarians, learning developers and researcher developers to link to the resources from their information and teaching pages. Skills Portal was demonstrated at every opportunity and, gradually, individuals began to recommend Skills Portal-specific tutorials to their students and ask for items to be included.
Skills Portal continues to grow and develop as new items are added. Google Analytics indicates that use continues to increase both in terms of the number of page requests and the time spent on a particular resource, and that 30 per cent of users revisit the site.
| Keywords | Creative Commons · digital repositories · Jorum · OER · reusable learning objects · RLO · skills portal |
| ISBN | 9781843347231 |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | Copyright © 2013 The editors and contributors. All rights reserved. |
| DOI | 10.1016/B978-1-84334-723-1.50013-9 |
| URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781843347231500139 |
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