CETIS presentation from programme start up meeting for UKOER Phase 2

1. Resource description, discovery, and metadata for Open Educational Resources R. John Robertson UKOER 2 Programme start-up meeting London, September 22nd 2010 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence.

2. Overview Introduction Requirements Lessons learnt Support Slides heavily influenced by: http://www.slideshare.net/philb/jisc-cetis-support-for-ukoer

3. JISC CETIS JISC Innovation Support Centre: Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards provide strategic technical advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes representing JISC on international standardisation initiatives work with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning. support various JISC Programmes

4. JISC CETIS areas of interest Accessibility Achievement Information Aggregated Content Architecture And Modelling Assessment Cloud Computing Competences Curriculum Design Learning Opportunities (XCRI) Learning Platforms Lifelong Learning Mobile Learning Open Educational Resources Portfolio Relationship Management Repositories Resource Description And Discovery Semantic Technologies Standards Virtual Worlds 4

5. The UKOER approach

6. UKOER technical requirements - systems “any system capable of delivering content on the open web” Strongly encouraged to use platforms that can create RSS for collections Most OER specific discovery tools and organisations use RSS to collect information about resources; For example, DiscoverEd, OCWC and the Open University, Steeple (Oxford), and Xpert (Nottingham) RSS metadata deposit an active area of discussion Strand A projects: utilise existing technologies – development not funded Implement some approach to tracking the use of released content 6

7. UKOER technical requirements - descriptive set Tag: UKOER and a project specific tag Title Author Date URL File format (probably auto) File size (probably auto)

8. UKOER technical requirements - recommended ‘extras’ Language Subject classifications Keywords Tags Comments Description

9. UKOER technical requirements - licences Licensing Creative Commons Ideally BY but find the option that best suits your local requirements CC: BY NC SA was common Embed licence in materials if possible Recommended: MS Research CC-License plug-in for Office Often an option to assign licence in tools used – some may embed 9

10. UKOER technical requirements - deposit You have to make you content available through JorumOpen and another service – for example, a local repository or a web 2.0 service Deposit in both places (and not just representation) is strongly advised 10

11. UKOER Patterns from phase 1 - systems 11

12. UKOER Patterns from phase 1 - description 12

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21. UKOER Patterns from phase 1 – other stuff Tracking No clear patterns yet but possibilities identified: http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Resource_Tracking_for_UKOER Ongoing work by Scott Leslie and Rob Pearce Versioning... A active discussion, but perhaps a non-issue? Guidelines for common practice RSS – Jorum’s paper (and debate) http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/12/09/oer-rss-and-jorumopen/ RSS – OCWC guidelines http://wiki.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?title=RSS_feeds RSS – DiscoverEdguidelines http://wiki.creativecommons.org/DiscoverEd_Metadata Cataloguing – eg Bioscience http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/oer/jorumopen.aspx 14

22. Principles of CETIS programme support Support for UKOER uses models of support we provide to other JISC development programmes. Treat the programme as a whole Engage with individual projects but use specific issues to also produce general advice Create a high level overview of the technical approaches, technologies and standards in use within and across funded programmes. Synthesise, reflect, and make recommendations.

23. JISC CETIS Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications 16

24. JISC CETIS Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications 17

25. JISC CETIS Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications 18

26. JISC CETIS Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events Publications 19

27. JISC CETIS Blogs Technical calls Wiki Topic pages Events 2nd Tuesdays CETIS What Metadata meeting? Accessibility and OER (with TechDis) CETIS conference sessions Others to come Publications 20

29. CETIS support for UKOER Other stuff It really helps if you blog Subscribe to our blog rss feeds or keep an eye on the main CETIS feed/page If you’re on twitter, follow the tag #ukoer ; follow us and let us know who you are If you have a question – get in touch We follow up issues from interim reports We’ll try to connect the dots between projects We’ll represent the tech side of the programme to a wider audience and try to keep highlighting relevant developments 22

30. Further Information http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_OER http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk//topic/oer Contact details robert.robertson at strath.ac.uk @kavubob Lmc at strath.ac.uk @lornamcampbell Phil.barker at hw.ac.uk @philbarker L.yuan at bolton.ac.uk @jisccetis