By JohnR | August 26, 2011
What technical protocols are projects using to share their resource? and how are they planning on representing their resources in Jorum? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Dissemination protocols
The chosen dissemination protocols are usually already built in the platforms in use by projects; [...]
By JohnR | August 26, 2011
What licence have UKOER 2 projects used and how have they associated it with their content? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Although, a project’s choice of licence is not a particular concern of a technical synthesis, how the licence is [...]
By JohnR | August 26, 2011
What standards did projects intend to use to describe and package their OERs? - what other standards are in use? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Descriptive choices
Dublin Core
“The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative “popularized the idea of “core [...]
By JohnR | January 21, 2011
OAI-PMH is a odd thing:
a protocol almost universally implemented in repositories and consequently (usually) publishing metadata about repository contents to the world
a protocol frequently reviled by anyone trying to aggregate feeds from different repositories and build discovery tools and services on top of that aggregate.
I’m not going to repeat OAI-PMH’s problems in detail (PERX, the experience of the NSDL [...]
By JohnR | April 23, 2010
Technology and descriptive choices in the JISC and HEA Open Educational Resources programme.
A position paper for the ADL Learning Content Registries and Repositories Summit by R. John Robertson, Lorna Campbell, Phil Barker
Theme: ‘State of the practice in learning content repositories’ and ‘Systemic Initiatives’ License: CC: BY
JISC and the Higher Education Academy are collaborating on [...]
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“The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) integrates a set of related technical standards, specifications, and guidelines designed to meet SCORM’s high-level requirements—accessible, interoperable, durable, and reusable content and systems. SCORM content can be delivered to your learners via any SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS) using the same version of SCORM.” (http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx )
In the context [...]
By JohnR | March 30, 2010
OAI-PMH
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH ; http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html ) “provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting.” The protocol is widely used by repository software to make metadata about the resources they store available. In its use the repository acts as a data provider which is then able to be harvested [...]
By JohnR | March 17, 2010
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative “popularized the idea of “core metadata” for simple and generic resource descriptions” and its initial 15 descriptive elements became an international standard and a component of the Open Archives Initiatives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The Dublin Core community has subsequently developed in two directions – one developing application profiles to [...]
IMS Content Packaging “describes data structures that can be used to exchange data between systems that wish to import, export, aggregate, and disaggregate packages of content.” http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/ .
There are a number of projects in the programme which have identified themselves as using IMS Content Packaging, they are:
Unicycle
http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/
Open Exeter
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/oer/
OpenStaffs
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/about_us/projects/openstaffs/index.jsp
OLE Dutch History
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dutch/OER/
FETLAR
http://www.fetlar.bham.ac.uk/
Open Educational Resources Pilot
http://www.engsc.ac.uk/an/oer-project/oer-project.asp
CORE-materials
http://core.materials.ac.uk/
OOER
http://www.medev.ac.uk/oer/
Simulation-OER
http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/simshare/index.html
UK Centre [...]
IMS Question & Test Interoperability Specification http://www.imsglobal.org/question/ is a standard used to support the interoperability and exchange of digital assessment items (questions, answers, and data). Based on the technical conversations we’ve been having with projects, here’s a brief overview of the use of IMS QTI in the UKOER programme based on the data we have.
Eight [...]
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