Category Archives: Updates

STELLAR May update

Posted on May 17, 2013 by admin

We’re now well into our Post-enhancement and evaluation stage as the project starts to draw to a close and this post will provide an update on the work over the last few weeks. The STELLAR proof-of-concept tool The project has … Continue reading →

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Our first view of the prototype…

Posted on March 18, 2013 by sb25723

Last Friday was a big day for the STELLAR team – we had the first demonstration of the proof of concept tool being developed to demonstrate the enhancements we are making to the digitised non-current OU learning materials. It was … Continue reading →

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Moving forward

Posted on January 30, 2013 by sb25723

Despite the recent ice and snow, work continues on STELLAR to develop the proof of concept application which will demonstrate the transformation of our selected legacy module learning materials… Our Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is now working on mapping the … Continue reading →

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STELLAR September update

Posted on September 26, 2012 by sb25723

We have now embarked on the next phase of the project; the enhancement of legacy learning materials. Informed by the feedback from the pre-enhancement survey we have selected three discontinued OU modules as our targets: S100 Science Foundation course D251 … Continue reading →

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New STELLAR Project Manager

Posted on August 29, 2012 by sb25723

By way of introduction, I’m Sarah Brown and I’ve recently joined the STELLAR team as the new Project Manager. Since then I have been busy getting up to speed with what has been achieved so far. A great starting point has been the feedback … Continue reading →

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Stellar pre-enhancement survey update

Posted on July 30, 2012 by admin

We’ve now published the results of the Stellar survey as a page on this blog – Summary of survey results.  This page includes details of the number of survey respondents and their breakdown as well as the responses to each question, … Continue reading →

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Stellar June update

Posted on June 22, 2012 by admin

Survey The Stellar pre-enhancement survey has now closed.   The project has had a great response to the survey with 561 responses from OU staff – academics, associate lecturers and other staff.  Thanks to everyone who took the time to complete … Continue reading →

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Stakeholder Survey

Posted on March 15, 2012 by tw4563

The first stage of the project is underway.  Tom Welch has joined the team for Work Package 2 and is developing a survey of academics and key stakeholders, focusing on the value that is placed on old Open University course materials.  Tom is working … Continue reading →

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