talking to Ripple projects about technical issues for oer

1. Repositories for OER R. John Robertson Ripple and Triton project workshop, OUCS, Oxford December 16th 2010 This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.

2. UKOER Context 2

3. JISC CETIS JISC CETIS is one of JISC’s Innovation Support Centres (ISC), supporting the sector through: participating in standards bodies, providing community forums for sharing experiences in using particular technologies and standards providing specific support for JISC funded development programmes such as the UKOER programme.

4. UKOER Programme The Open Educational Resources Programme is a collaboration between the JISC and the Higher Education Academy. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) provided £5.7 million of funding for a pilot programme and a further £5milllion for phase 2. CETIS provides technical advice and support to the programme through interaction with projects and technical synthesis.

5. UKOER technical context

6. pilot phase experience

7. pilot phase experience

8. Prod http://PROD.cetis.ac.uk

9. Some things to think about... 9

10. organisational issues how will OER integrate with other repositories/ collections? Workflows: who is part of the deposit process? Workflow tasks identifying content for OERs clearing rights creating metadata- who? labelling content? What technical changes/ types of changes can you make to your platform? when do you need other tools/processes?

11. Metadata issues Metadata What do you need? At what granularity? What do others want? Rss Oai-pmh Oai-ore Packaging standards Complex objects/ content packages

12. Programme requirements Programme tag Project tag Title Author / owner / contributor Date URL . Licence information Language information Subject classifications Additional Tags . Comments Descriptions http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/12/03/oer-2-technical-requirements/

13. UKOER specific issues Repository as storage platform – how will you disseminate content? How will you share? With users With discovery services Coming up: a list of places to put stuff What’s in your feed? What’s in your endpoint? Upload to JorumOpen – what’s your approach? Cover pages?

14. technical issues Granularity - what are you storing? Courses<-> Images Are you sharing a mix? Or standardise level and disaggregate/ aggregate? identifiers? Stable URLs Content Players & preview functionality

15. technical issues Repositories may be great for storing and managing but disseminating? Can you use them as tools to push your content (or information about your content) elsewhere? – Peter talking about this next Upload – do you want to put your primate photos on flickr as well? Social environments / tools/ features? ‘Paradata’ – how do you find track, store, disseminate qualitative and quantitative feedback? Tracking – Ben talking about this later 15

16. Further Information http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_OER http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk//topic/oer Contact details robert.robertson@strath.ac.uk s.macneill@strath.ac.uk lmc@strath.ac.uk L.Yuan@bolton.ac.uk philb@icbl.hw.ac.uk

17. possible platforms Custom DIY Repository Open Source ePrints, DSpace, Fedora, +? Hosted open source Paid for support, customisation and/ or hosting Commercial Intralibrary Equella Harvest Road Hive +?

18. Are learning materials different?