{"id":100,"date":"2012-04-20T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/?p=100"},"modified":"2012-04-20T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:12:41","slug":"engaging-with-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/2012\/04\/20\/engaging-with-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging with users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are looking forward now to involving some of this year&#8217;s undergraduates (who have studied the Thatcher&#8217;s Britain course on which our OER will be based) in selecting some of the University of Sussex&#8217;s ephemera collection to digitise alongside the Mass Observation writings and British Library oral histories.\u00a0 Getting them involved gives us a chance to evaluate the approach we&#8217;ve taken so far, including the themes we are using, and also to get some feedback on what works well\/not so well for current students of the course &#8211;\u00a0 particularly in relation to the sources.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also a great opportunity for them to get some hands-on experience of working with archival materials, including an appreciation of IPR issues (we&#8217;ll be using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web2rights.com\/OERIPRSupport\/risk-management-calculator\/\">this<\/a> JISC tool to help us).\u00a0 It gives them understanding of grant-funded project work and also offers an insight into the creation of courses and OERs in particular.\u00a0 From my point of view it&#8217;s also a chance to share my enthusiasm for getting stuck in to actual archive material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are looking forward now to involving some of this year&#8217;s undergraduates (who have studied the Thatcher&#8217;s Britain course on which our OER will be based) in selecting some of the University of Sussex&#8217;s ephemera collection to digitise alongside the Mass Observation writings and British Library oral histories.\u00a0 Getting them involved gives us a chance \u2026&nbsp;<a class=\"meta_navigate_right\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/2012\/04\/20\/engaging-with-users\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/observingthe80s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}