Resource description, discovery, and metadata for Open Educational Resources

R. John Robertson

UKOER 2 Programme start-up meeting

London, September 22nd 2010

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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