By JohnR | 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 [...]
By JohnR | 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 [...]
By JohnR | 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 [...]
By JohnR | 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 [...]
