Hello all,
a week or so ago, CETIS launched the OER Technical Interest Group
[OERTIG] and announced a two-day developers' workshop/hack days on OER
content, systems and services [OERHACK]. We would be very interested in
discussing now the technical issues that people from the OERTIG think
could be explored during the OER Hack Days.
The idea for the Hackdays is that developers and other people with an
interest in technical aspects of OER can work together to explore
existing ways of doing things and experiment on how to improve them. So
we need two things: a real problem/issue on which some progress can be
made in ~24hrs, at least at a proof-of-concept level, and the means of
working on it--a group of people willing to work together, and maybe
some code that gives them a good starting point.
Some ideas are already bubbling around:
- Rights and licences: encoding cc-licences, attribution information
etc. in resources/metadata/feeds; processing them and displaying them
in, e.g. repositories, feed aggregators, collections, learning
environments (see, for example, further info: OERCA, below).
- Web search log analysis. I'll be writing more about that soon, but
take a look at the CETISWMD meeting summary below.
- noSQL approaches to handling descriptions of OERs (e.g. US Learning
Registry looking at CouchDB)
- Open eTextBooks
As I said at the top: we would be very interested in discussion and
comments about these or any other ideas for the OER Hackdays. Replies to
OER-Discuss, please . . .
Looking forward to hearing form you, Phil.
Further info:
OERTIG
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2011/01/06/jisc-cetis-oer-technical-interest-group/
OERHACK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/devcsi/oer_hackdays/
OERCA
http://e-department.blogspot.com/2011/01/creating-plug-n-play-framework-for-he.html
CETISWMD http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2010/10/19/cetiswmd-summary/ and
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2010/09/23/analysing-ocwsearch-logs/
US Learning registry http://www.learningregistry.org/
Open eTextBooks
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/11/25/open-e-textbook-use-case/
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