This is the project blog for Delores, a project funded between Sept 2010 and August 2011 by the HE Academy / JISC UK Open Educational Resources (phase 2) programme.
The Delores (Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design) project has created static and dynamic collections of university-level Open Educational Resources (OERs) and other openly available resources relevant to Engineering Design. The resources are sourced from collections from around the world, including such sources as UKOER projects, OCWC, OER Commons, Journal Tables of Contents, and industry news. The aims are (a) to help make such resources more easily discovered by those with a specific interest in Engineering Design by creating a high-profile dedicated site and (b) to provide a showcase of these materials and examples of their use.
The static collection, Delores Selections, comprises expert-selected resources and presented to end users in the form of a blog themed around a tried and tested first-year undergraduate curriculum for Engineering Design. (In case you’re wondering this is not that blog)
The dynamic collection is built automatically, utilising Bayesian filtering and made available using a searchable and browsable adaptive-concept-mapping mechanism know as Waypoint.
The project is lead by the Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) at the University of Bath with Heriot-Watt’s ICBL as partners.
The header image for this blog cropped from Ford 6.8 sohc 3v triton v10 engine cutaway by Shannon Ramos.
