http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr reflections, news, and other and stuff about repositories, metadata, and education Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:31:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my earlier post (Libraries, Institutions, and Open Educational Resources: possible connections?) I mentioned one of the ways libraries might be involved in Open Education would be through extending some of what they already do in connection to information literacy to encompass supporting students in selecting and evaluating OERs. There is an assumption here ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/18/oer-literacies/ Open Educational Resources The growing success of the Open Access movement is transforming how institutions view, manage, publish, and access their research outputs – irrespective of any local commitment to Open Access. In a similar manner the Open Educational movement may transform how institutions create, manage, and share learning materials. ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/17/librariesandoers/ 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 – ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/17/the-use-of-dublin-core-metadata-in-the-ukoer-programme/ “Learning Object Metadata (LOM) is a data model, usually encoded in XML, used to describe a learning object and similar digital resources used to support learning. The purpose of learning object metadata is to support the reusability of learning objects, to aid discoverability, and to facilitate their interoperability, usually in ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/11/the-use-of-ieee-lom-in-the-ukoer-programme/ 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 ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/08/the-use-of-ims-cp-in-the-ukoer-programme/ 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 ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/03/03/the-use-of-ims-qti-in-the-ukoer-programme/ I'm a librarian by training but my professional experience is mostly in repository and e-learning related stuff. As a result I'm fascinated by the intersection of the e-learning, repository, and library communities, particularly when it comes to managing learning materials as the three groups often have different perspectives on how ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/02/09/libraries-librarians-and-open-educational-resources/ Following on from part 1 which reviewed Jorum's requirements for RSS-based deposit, this section synthesises the comments and feedback emerging in response to it. Community views In response to the requirements and position papers a number of feeds where submitted for testing and there has been some thoughtful reflection on the issues ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/02/04/rss-for-deposit-jorum-and-ukoer-part-2-commentary/ Over the past few months CETIS and Jorum have been discussing approaches to bulk deposit to support the projects in the UKOER programme as they deposit or represent their OERs in Jorum. Based on feedback from projects gathered through our technical reviews of projects, we’ve investigated approaches which might work ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2010/02/04/rss-for-deposit-jorum-and-ukoer-part-1-review/ A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to join a conversation between JISC and MIT OEIT (http://oeit.mit.edu/) to exchange information about current initiatives and possible collaborations. The general themes of the conversation were openness and sustainability. There was an agreed sense that, currently, “Open is the new educational tech” ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/2009/12/11/jisc-and-mit-comparing-notes-on-ed-tech/