working in partnership nigel gibson, 29/06. i’ll cover who was involved what we aimed to do what...

Working in partnership

Nigel Gibson, 29/06

I’ll cover

• Who was involved• What we aimed to do• What we achieved

Partners

• City of Plymouth - Services for Children and Young People

• University College Plymouth St Mark and St John (Marjon)

• The OU in the South West

The wider project

• Plymouth City Council• OU in the SW with Marjon• Formal and informal learning leading to accredited

awards

Our bit

• Create a space for volunteers to “meet”

• Identify useful resources

OpenLearn

• We used ProjectSpace• Created a dedicated place for Plymouth Workforce

Development• http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5087

Working together

• Subject expert with technical support• Mixed resources (Google Groups for security)

What we made

• Collected together OpenLearn units of interest• Used wikis for a couple of elements so that local users

could collaborate

Image by Madpole used under CC2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/madpole/72531473

http://labspace.open.ac.uk/mod/ouwiki/view.php?id=387377

Legacy

• Created some new content• Space is still being used

Any questions?

Image by freefotouk used under CC 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/freefoto/4582564966/