Comparing metadata requirements for OERs (part 2)

August 31, 2009

In Comparing metadata requirements (part 1) I examined the required and suggested metadata for Open Educational Resources in the UKOER programme, for the Jorum deposit tool, and the DiscoverEd aggregator. In this second part of the comparison I’m going to try to capture some of our initial discussions fom the UKOER programme session about metadata [...]

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Comparing metadata requirements for OERs (part 1)

August 26, 2009

In our elluminate session on metadata and aggregation for Open Educational Resources, Phil and I spent some time  gettting everyone to think through the information required to interact with an educational resource in certain ways  (such as: (re-)use, cite, find, identify, manage). this produced a lot of responses prioiritizing different bits of information that are [...]

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RSS, Yahoo Pipes, and UKOER projects

August 21, 2009

or Making finding my way around the UK OER programme one feed at a time a little easier with some help from Yahoo.
In an effort to familarize myself with the OER programme I hunted for project websites and blogs to add their feeds to my netvibes. As not all projects are blogging this is only [...]

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Changing projects: RRT to CETIS OER Support

August 19, 2009

The Repositories Research Team finished up recently and from the begining of August I’ve been working on a new project providing some of CETIS’ support to the JISC and HE Academy’s Open Educational Resources programme (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/oer.aspx).
Lorna has already provided a great concluding review of the RRT project over on her blog, so I won’t attempt [...]

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