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Amber Thomas

Amber Thomas
Programme Manager
JISC

Email: 
a.thomas@jisc.ac.uk
Web site: 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk

Amber Thomas has led work on open educational resources and repositories such as Jorum. She has overseen JISC’s projects on the technical and IPR issues which surround putting resources online. Amber not only has experience and expertise of Higher Education but also of Further Education with experience gained with Becta as content officer of the National Grid for Learning and the Ferl Online Service that provided support on information and learning technology (ILT) in Further Education.

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Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "repositories", "wikipedia", "vle", "jisc", "research", "search technology", "data", "software", "e-learning", "open access". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author.

Profile last updated: 
October 2012

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Number of Ariadne articles written (or co-written) by this author: 2.

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21st-century Scholarship and Wikipedia

Amber Thomas explores the ways in which emerging research practices and Wikipedia illustrate the changing boundaries of academic work.

issue70 November 2012

 archives, bbc, becta, blog, british library, data, dewey decimal, e-learning, framework, further education, google scholar, higher education, identifier, infrastructure, jisc, jorum, linked data, myexperiment, oer, open access, open source, open university, orcid, rdf, repositories, research, search technology, semantic web, smartphone, software, ukoln, university of warwick, uri, web 2.0, wiki, wikipedia

Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective

Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

issue45 October 2005

 aggregation, authentication, browser, cataloguing, copyright, daedalus, data, digital academic repositories, digital repositories, dspace, e-learning, electronic theses, flash, framework, further education, google, google scholar, higher education, ims, institutional repository, intellectual property, jisc, jisc information environment, jorum, learning objects, metadata, moodle, open access, owl, repositories, research, search technology, software, standards, tagging, university of worcester, url, vle, webct

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