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Resource description, discovery, and metadata for Open Educational Resources
R. John Robertson
UKOER 2 Programme start-up meeting
London, September 22nd 2010
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.
Overview
Introduction Requirements Lessons learnt Support
Slides heavily influenced by: http://www.slideshare.net/philb/jisc-cetis-support-for-ukoer
JISC CETIS
JISC Innovation Support Centre: Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards
provide strategic technical advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes
representing JISC on international standardisation initiatives
work with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning.
support various JISC Programmes
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JISC CETIS areas of interest Accessibility Achievement Information Aggregated Content Architecture And Modelling Assessment Cloud Computing Competences Curriculum Design Learning Opportunities (XCRI) Learning Platforms Lifelong Learning Mobile Learning
Open Educational Resources Portfolio Relationship Management Repositories Resource Description And
Discovery Semantic Technologies Standards Virtual Worlds
The UKOER approach
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UKOER technical requirements - systems
“any system capable of delivering content on the open web” Strongly encouraged to use platforms that can create RSS for
collections Most OER specific discovery tools and organisations use RSS to collect
information about resources; For example, DiscoverEd, OCWC and the Open University, Steeple (Oxford), and Xpert (Nottingham)
RSS metadata deposit an active area of discussion Strand A projects: utilise existing technologies – development not
funded Implement some approach to tracking the use of released
content
UKOER technical requirements - descriptive set
Tag: UKOER and a project specific tag Title Author Date URL File format (probably auto) File size (probably auto)
UKOER technical requirements - recommended ‘extras’
Language Subject classifications Keywords Tags Comments Description
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UKOER technical requirements - licences
Licensing Creative Commons
Ideally BY but find the option that best suits your local requirements CC: BY NC SA was common
Embed licence in materials if possible Recommended: MS Research CC-License plug-in for Office Often an option to assign licence in tools used – some may
embed
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UKOER technical requirements - deposit
You have to make you content available through JorumOpen and another service – for example, a local repository or a web 2.0 service
Deposit in both places (and not just representation) is strongly advised
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UKOER Patterns from phase 1 - systems
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UKOER Patterns from phase 1 - description
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UKOER Patterns from phase 1 - formats
PDF DOC PPT SWF QTI MP3 MP4 FLV
JPEG PNG SVG WMV OGG WAV AVI WMF AAC ?
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UKOER Patterns from phase 1 – other stuff Tracking
No clear patterns yet but possibilities identified: http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Resource_Tracking_for_UKOER Ongoing work by Scott Leslie and Rob Pearce
Versioning... A active discussion, but perhaps a non-issue?
Guidelines for common practice RSS – Jorum’s paper (and debate)
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/12/09/oer-rss-and-jorumopen/ RSS – OCWC guidelines http://wiki.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?title=RSS_feeds RSS – DiscoverEd guidelines http://wiki.creativecommons.org/DiscoverEd_Metadata Cataloguing – eg Bioscience
http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/jorumopen.aspx
Principles of CETIS programme support Support for UKOER uses models of support we
provide to other JISC development programmes. Treat the programme as a whole Engage with individual projects but use specific issues to
also produce general advice Create a high level overview of the technical
approaches, technologies and standards in use within and across funded programmes.
Synthesise, reflect, and make recommendations.
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JISC CETIS
Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications
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JISC CETIS
Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications
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JISC CETIS
Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications
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JISC CETIS
Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications
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JISC CETIS
Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events
2nd Tuesdays CETIS What Metadata meeting? Accessibility and OER (with TechDis) CETIS conference sessions Others to come
Publications
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JISC CETIS Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications
Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and challenges for higher educationLi Yuan, Sheila MacNeill, Wilbert Kraan (Sept 2008) http://tinyurl.com/kkek7r
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CETIS support for UKOER
Other stuff It really helps if you blog Subscribe to our blog rss feeds or keep an eye on the main CETIS
feed/page If you’re on twitter, follow the tag #ukoer ; follow us and let us know who
you are If you have a question – get in touch
We follow up issues from interim reports We’ll try to connect the dots between projects We’ll represent the tech side of the programme to a wider audience
and try to keep highlighting relevant developments
Further Information
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_OER http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk//topic/oer
Contact details robert.robertson at strath.ac.uk @kavubob Lmc at strath.ac.uk @lornamcampbell Phil.barker at hw.ac.uk @philbarker L.yuan at bolton.ac.uk @jisccetis