By philb | April 23, 2010
CETIS has been funded by JISC to do some additional technical work relevant to the the UKOER programme. The work will cover three topics: deposit via RSS feeds, aggregation of OERs, and tracking & analysis of OER use.
Feed deposit
There is a need for services hosting OERs to provide a mechanism for depositors to upload multiple [...]
By philb | August 11, 2009
There was an interesting discussion last week on the JISC-Repositories email list that kicked off after Les Carr asked
Does anyone have any experience with iTunes U? Our University is thinking of starting a presence on Apple’s iTunes U (the section of the iTunes store that distributes podcasts and video podcasts from higher [...]
By philb | September 10, 2007
The end of summer, with people coming back from their holidays, seems a reasonable time for a quick update on where various specification and standardization activities have got to. I’ll deal with specifications for interacting with repositories in this post; there’ll be another post soon covering metadata specifications and standards.