The bloodhound project
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The Bloodhound Project Open Educational Resource
The last issue of Education in Chemistry (May 2012) featured the Bloodhound project and the team who believe they can inspire a generation of pupils to study science with their very fast car. Part of the plan is the Bloodhound open educational resource (OER).
Created by web design expert Yvonne Howard of Southampton University, this is no run-of-the-mill resource stockpile. In this website the design has been thought out carefully, to make it a real pleasure to use. For example, all the resources are useable inline and online - you don't have to keep downloading PDFs before you can scope out how useful they are.
Bloodhound's expert educational team upload all their resources here, so the material is plentiful and useful. The site makes it easy for you to upload materials yourself too. 'We don't ask for much metadata, but work out lots for you,' says Howard. That allows all the content to be deeply interlinked and referenced. It may look like any other OER on the surface, but start using it and you'll find it more user-friendly than most.
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