By JohnR | September 20, 2011
An intial look at UKOER without the collections strand (C). This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
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In my earlier post in this series on the collections strand (C), I presented a graph of the technical choices made just by that part of [...]
By JohnR | September 7, 2011
Are you wondering what to do with your OER next? Are you wondering how to keep the ball rolling in your institution and share some more educational resources openly? Are you looking for a tangible way to get your open content used? or perhaps looking for a way to turn your OER into something a little more [...]
By JohnR | September 6, 2011
What technology is being used to aggregate open educational resources? What role can the subject community play in resources discovery? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
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In the UKOER 2 programme Strand C funded “Projects identifying, collecting and [...]
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.
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Dissemination protocols
The chosen dissemination protocols are usually already built in the platforms in use by projects; [...]
By JohnR | August 26, 2011
How are projects tracking the use of their OER? What tools are projects using to work with their OER collections? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
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Analytics
As part of their thinking around sustainability, it was suggested to projects that they consider how [...]
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By JohnR | August 26, 2011
When projects in UKOER 2 created or edited content what tools did they use? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
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Tools to make OER
Notes
Ms Office and Adobe Acrobat are not represented in these graphs or in PROD - their use [...]
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By JohnR | August 26, 2011
What platforms are UKOER 2 projects using to host and manage their content? What types of content are they releasing? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
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OER types:
Projects in UKOER 2 have released resources at various levels of granularity from individual images and documents [...]
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.
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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.
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Descriptive choices
Dublin Core
“The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative “popularized the idea of “core [...]
By JohnR | August 26, 2011
Introduction
The is the first post in a short series offering a technical summary of the 23 projects in the UKOER 2 programme. It is based on interviews with the projects, the data and information summarised here is all available in PROD.
The JISC site describes the programme as follows:
“Phase 2 of the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources (OER) programme is [...]
