Just to let you all know I am in Berlin at Online Educa, and will respond to emails and blog comments pretty much within the hour. But for you to phone me would probably cost as much as your project would receive in funding if successful! So unless it is really urgent, just mail or blog comment.
One common query at the moment is the 10 page limit… this does *not* include the cover-sheet, FOI declaration, letters of support or staff CVs.
We’re not just looking in this call for the reuse of RLOs in the narrowest sense - rather you could be reusing anything from a single image or a page of text, right up to an entire online activity or assessment. We do appreciate the current difficulties with interoperability of packaged learning objects across VLEs and repositories, and there are various projects involving JISC, CETIS and others working to address these issues.
We know that this will be a difficult project to sell to senior staff (that is part of the reason we are running it!), how projects manage to work through institutional systems will be very interesting to us.
35% reuse is, deliberately, “up to” 35%, if you have content developed for another course you could use some of it within this allowance. And naturally we hope to see content developed or repurposed within these projects used as widely as possible.
Does content specially commissioned by the lead institution count as “external content”? No. We don’t need to fund projects to tell us that institutions can commission and use content designed for them. External content is content that has not been specifically designed for you to use.
Our institution or area doesn’t have “departments”, are we ineligible? No. As long as you can identify your module (or comparable “chunk” of learning) to a subject area that you teach, that is fine.
What kind of resources do you want to see projects using? Anything from single images right up to an entire activity. Be creative!
Our validation cycle is longer than you allow for - can we still bid? Yes… note in the circular that there is a substantial gap between when the funding ends and when the final report is due. We have done this precisely because we know that things take time. But bear in mind you would still be funded for the same time, and you should really consider telling us about this in your outline workplan in the bid document.
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