NUMBAT OER (Numeracy Bank) by Toby Carter, Anglia Ruskin University and Julian Liddle

www.anglia.ac.uk/sums

Numeracy Bank

Toby Carter

Faculty of Science & Technology Anglia Ruskin University

Julian Priddle

Science Training & Education Partnership

Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE)West Midlands Regional Consultation Event

Wednesday 10th March 2010


An OER Journey

• Biomeasurement

• NuMBerS– Numerical Methods for Biosciences Students

• SUMS– Students Upgrading Mathematics Skills

• NumBat– Numeracy Bank


In the beginning ....

• Department of Life Sciences

– Need to teach Statistical Methods

– Led by Maths Staff

– Low rate of success


So ....

• Department of Life Sciences

– Teaching of Statistical Methods

– Led by Life Sciences Staff

– Very Successful Module

– Context-dependent, tutorial teaching

– Publication of Resources


Resources

Text BookNow in 2nd Edition

Online digital resources


Funding and Expansion

• NuMBerS Project(Numerical Methods for Biosciences Students)

• Funded by HEA– Centre for Bioscience

• AIM: Creating context-dependent, online, numerical resources for Biosciences Students


www.anglia.ac.uk/numbers

Finished 2008


Beyond NuMBerS

University Learning and Teaching Fellowship – Moving NuMBerS into other cognate areas

Interest in all five faculties

Student Support

University Learning and Teaching Centre

Regional Partners


Consultation:

Highlighted two key issues:

Everyone has the same problems

Need to provide basic numeracy training


SUMS ProjectStudents Upgrading Mathematics Skills


SUMS ‘Maths Gap’ Workshop

• 16-18 December 2008

• Main Conclusions – the 'three Cs':– Confidence – need to be comfortable with

maths in an academic environment– Continuity – continued presence of maths in

curriculum, rather than isolated chunks– Context – need for academic or everyday

relevance


SUMS Finder

• An interactive portal site

• Using Web 2.0 technology

• Users (Students & Tutors) – can create accounts– can upload or create links to materials– can rate materials


Resource Finder


JISC/HEA OER Individual Strand

• Projects will involve the release of high quality educational resources, developed by individual staff, to support at least the equivalent 30 credits.

• Resources may need to be modified to aid transferability, and to enable open licenses to be used without conflicting background IPR.


NuMBerS Resources


NumBat (Numeracy Bank)

build on previous work to provide online learning materials to support numeracy across a wide range of subject areas in FE and HE.

to repurpose materials from the NuMBerS project.


JISC/HEA OER Subject Strand

• MSOR

• FETLAR Project– Finding Electronic Teaching Learning and Assessment Resources

• NuMBerS resources (NumBat) being linked into FETLAR


Site Map


A Toolkit Page


Added value

• NuMBerS resources were designed for biosciences and usually have quite specific example materials

• NUMBAT will allow users from other disciplines to add examples and case studies relevant to their subjects




Register


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OER

• All materials will be publically accessible online through the NUMBAT site

• Materials will also be hyperlinked from JorumOpen: http://open.jorum.ac.uk/

• NuMBerS materials also accessible as part of the FETLAR OER database

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Open for donations!

We are now seeking case studies, datasets etc that can be added to the NUMBAT database and can linked to generic toolkits

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For More Information

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