{"id":1201,"date":"2012-04-04T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2012-04-04T16:26:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:26:33","slug":"book-boxes-to-oer-opening-up-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/04\/book-boxes-to-oer-opening-up-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Book boxes to OER: opening up Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1202\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36191.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1202\" title=\"iPhone 3619\" src=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36191-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"A mountain of book boxes from Rewley House library\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36191-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36191-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36191.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mountain of book boxes from Rewley House library<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A couple of months ago while filming a video about our work on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tall.ox.ac.uk\/research\/past\/cascade.php\">Cascade<\/a> project with JISC we visited the\u00a0 mountain of\u00a0 book boxes that are in the basement of our library.\u00a0 These are\u00a0 legacy from the days gone by of the department, when opening up access to Oxford meant traveling around the UK by train, with your TRAVELLING LIBRARY\u00a0 and giving lectures.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1203\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36212.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1203\" title=\"iPhone 3621\" src=\"http:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36212-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The interior label from an early book box\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36212-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36212-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iPhone-36212.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior label from an early book box<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is worth noting that although we now offer many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/courses\/online\/\">online courses<\/a> this does actually still happen, with the occasional church hall still hosting a book box as we speak.\u00a0 There is more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/about\/history\/index.php\">history of the department<\/a> on our website, acting as a reminder that exploring how best to open up education is not a new pursuit, and that projects such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tall.ox.ac.uk\/research\/current\/sesame.php\">Sesame<\/a> and the generation of OER are just the latest evolution of this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago while filming a video about our work on the Cascade project with JISC we visited the\u00a0 mountain of\u00a0 book boxes that are in the basement of our library.\u00a0 These are\u00a0 legacy from the days gone &hellip; 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