Open Educational Resources

Nick Sheppard's Blog – August 2009 Archive (6)

ccLearn DiscoverEd

"The DiscoverEd project is a scalable search of educational resources with a special emphasis on Open Educational Resources (OER). As such, it utilizes a web-wide index, promoting results which have been identified as OER. ccLearn is serving as an aggregation point for other organizations which have identified or produced OER."

See http://wiki.creativecommons.org/DiscoverEd for more info.

I'm not sure… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 27, 2009 at 7:49 — 1 Comment

Would you like UKOER with that?

Originally posted at http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/would-you-like-ukoer-with-that/

Yesterday I had a chat with the learning technologist from Innovation North (faculty) about all things repository and, more specifically, UniCycle - he also brought along a faculty colleague who is exploring the best way of disseminating laboratory training videos to students via the… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 21, 2009 at 7:46 — 1 Comment

RSS feed for UniCycle Open Educational Resources

In lieu of development to the Open Search interface - http://repository.leedsmet.ac.uk/main/index.php (currently research only) - to include UniCycle_OER, the easiest way to get stuff out of intraLibrary is via RSS - you should be able to add the link below to an appropriate RSS feed reader:…

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Added by Nick Sheppard on August 14, 2009 at 12:44 — 6 Comments

Link or file in JorumOpen?

At the OER startup meeting back in June there was some discussion around including a link to a resource in JorumOpen rather than the file itself – this obviously makes sense, for example, if the resource is already out there on the web and adding the relevant URL to Jorum will certainly aid appropriate discovery in the context of #ukoer. I’m not certain, however, if this can apply directly to the Unicycle project which requires us to make resources available via JorumOpen as well as the Leeds… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 12, 2009 at 10:03 — 2 Comments

UNESCO releases new publication on Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace brings together the background papers and reports from the first three years of activities in the UNESCO OER Community. Access the online edition – or buy the book!

Education systems today face two major challenges: expanding the reach of education and improving its quality. Traditional solutions will not suffice, especially in the context of today's knowledge intensive societies.

Open Educational Resources offer one… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 11, 2009 at 8:54 — No Comments

Musing about metadata for OER

Oribinally posted at: http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/musing-about-metadata-for-oer/

(Disclaimer: I am not a qualified librarian or cataloguer.)

Thus far I've only really considered, in detail, the minutiae of research specific metadata (a consequence of the ongoing project to repurpose an LO repository as an OA archive of research). However, this… Continue

Added by Nick Sheppard on August 5, 2009 at 14:10 — 2 Comments

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