Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP) Subject Centre, SWAPBox

  • Start date: 2010-09-01
  • End date: 2011-08-31
  • Status: complete

The SWAP OER project brings together open educational resources in social work and social policy. Despite the sector’s general willingness for collaboration and sharing of best practice, at the moment there is no collective online repository that allows users to share, find and reuse learning resources. The repository created as part of this project, SWAPBox, will offer a wide range of social work and social policy resources that will be uploaded by project partners and individual SWAPBox members. These resources will be subject to online peer review.

Aims and Objectives

  • Provide a trusted and sustainable community repository
  • Stimulate a genuine cultural shift across the target community: encourage individuals not currently engaged in technology enhanced teaching and learning, to use OERs on a regular basis.
  • Foster the creation of an online community of  OER novices and experts

Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes

  • Repository with at least 360 credits
  • Growing online community that shares and feeds back on OERs
  • An understanding of how OERs are used and repurposed
  • An understanding of the training needs of different user groups
  • Dissemination of results through conferences and at least two journal articles

Key Focus Areas

Digitial Literacy  Use of web 2.0 to support interactive community

Organisations

Lead Institution:

  • Subject Centre for Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP), University of Southampton

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