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Fascinating additions to Open Educational Resources: WW1 poetry and virtual trenches, Shakespeare Quartos, Trailblazing

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Three collections of high quality material of general interest and for researchers and  students of history, poetry, literature, science, have recently been made freely available online and are worth exploring.  

The First World War poetry digital archive and virtual trenches are the result of a JISC project. The resources include works by Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and Vera Brittain and others, along with contextual primary source materials http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/enrichingdigi/ww1poetry

The virtual trenches are an exciting new venture in the 3D virtual world Second Life to simulate areas of the Western Front 1914-18. Explore the virtual Western Front in Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Frideswide/219/199/646/

Shakespeare Quartos archive http://www.quartos.org  holds the complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet. This JISC project will eventually reunite all seventy-five pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays into a single online collection http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/jiscneh/shakespeare

Royal Society’s Trailblazing project is an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/ It showcases sixty fascinating and inspiring articles selected from their archives dating from 1665 to 2010. Scientific articles and commentary can be downloaded. Two examples are Edmund Halley’s article on the total eclipse of the sun in April 1715, and in 1788 Edward Jenner (of smallpox vaccination fame) wrote a paper on his observations of cuckoo chicks ejecting baby birds from the nest.

500 and counting – great response to the students e-Learning survey

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Just one week since the launch of the student survey and we’ve received over 500 responses. What a great start. Thanks to all of you who have already completed a survey. Keep them coming.

The survey aims to find out about your experience, expectations and use of technology in your learning and gives you the opportunity to share your good ideas, as well as your grumbles, with us. This year the survey will also feed into the VLE review, so this is your chance to have your say.

To put yourself in line for a £50 Amazon voucher complete the survey http://surveys.edgehill.ac.uk/student2009/

Small grants for researchers

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Looking for a small grant to help fund research into learners’ experiences and uses of technology? The ELESIG Small Grants scheme closes on 1 December 2009.

ELESIG is the Evaluation of Learners’ Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group.  It consists of an international community of researchers and practitioners from higher and further education who are involved in investigations of learners’ experiences and uses of technology in learning.  The small grants scheme has been supported by the UK Higher Education Academy.

ELESIG is offering small grants to community members to engage in activities in line with its aim to:

  • develop a shared repertoire of resources which will be of benefit to the community and the sector and which build on shared knowledge and practice about learner experience research.

Proposals are invited from individuals or groups, which lead to the production of outputs which will help ELESIG meet its aims.

 The link is through the ELESIG website http://elesig.ning.com