The workshop Re-imagining open education, published works and social media took place at etcVenues in Hatton Garden on 16 October 2012. The event was organised by the School of Medical Sciences Education Development, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University and hosted by Megan Quentin-Baxter.
The principal speakers were Peter Robinson, manager of the University of Oxford on iTunes project; Amber Thomas, a programme manager in the Digital Infrastructure team within JISC Innovation; Kate Lindsay, principal investigator for project Run CoCoCo, a national initiative to support the development, running and sustainability of community digitisation projects, or community contributed collections (CoCoCo); David Tempest, Universal Access Team Leader at Elsevier; and Mark Moran, a consultant to the veterinary profession .
David Tempest pointed out that Elsevier has a small number of open access journals, as explained on its Open Access page.
Kate Lindsay’s talk was about the World War 1 Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings (WW1) site. One interesting aspect of this site is that many of the images were ‘crowd-sourced’, i.e. they came from members of the public.
A number of short presentations were also given, most notably about the Great Writers Inspire (GWI) project. This site contains an e-book library where you can access and download plays, novels, poetry collections and essays, such as, for example, The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman: ... by Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. The second edition. 2v. ; 8⁰. London :: printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760.
Both of these University of Oxford-based projects (WW1 and GWI) and engaged what they called “student ambassadors” who fulfilled both a marketing role and a data processing role.
Both projects can be found among the links on the OpenSpires web page, along with a link to The University of Oxford on iTunes U
The OpenSpires page contains links through to podcast series, such as, for example, the fascinatingly entitled “A Romp Through the Philosophy of Mind”
So, put on your romper suits and get romping; but not in the style of Romper Stomper, in which “a group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing” - presumably it was becoming too (asia) pacific.