Thanks for these excellent posts Suzanne... I think you are on to
something here.
david
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:27:37 -0000, Suzanne Hardy
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> Hi folks
>
> At the risk of wading in at an inappropriate point - I would like to
> point you all to two recent blog posts, which I hope illustrate clearly
> the need for open APIs on which to build customised services.
>
> I am not talking about individual teachers here, I am talking about
> embedding OERs at curriculum level, so that we take away as much
> technical interaction as possible, dynamically pushing the right
> resources to the right people at the right time.
>
> The first is a post by me, the second from a colleague, both based on a
> meting we had here at Newcastle recently.
>
> http://www.medev.ac.uk/blog/suzannes-blog/2011/jan/31/brandin-repositories-oer-marketing-and-awareness-raising-some-thoughts/
> https://learning-maps.ncl.ac.uk/blog/post/dlms-as-a-substrate-for-academic-content/
>
>
> Similar discussions are being had with the NHS eLearning Repository, and
> I had two very good meetings this last week with the National Institute
> for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) incorporating NHS Evidence
> (both of which have HUGE amounts of content, currently not openly
> licensed) and with eLearning for Health.
>
> We are not talking about individuals creating custom searches here. we
> are very much talking about developers working wither at University or
> more likely in our case Faculty/School level. That will only every
> attract a small number of clinicians and academics. We are talking about
> much deeper much more embedded, more transparent ways of encouraging
> people to engage with content, which is meaningful to them in their
> everyday working lives, and which doesn't involve having to learn new
> things. It's only when we can push content at people will we see massive
> numbers of people using and engaging with open content, in my humble
> opinion.
>
> I would welcome further discussion on what Tony and I have said and how
> it relates to previous posts in this thread :)
>
> All the best
>
> Suzanne
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> On 17 Feb 2011, at 16:33, Patrick Lockley wrote:
>
>> Short answer - No I don't mean that
>>
>> Long answer
>>
>> You could be - A person, A librarian, An OER enthusiast, A VLE admin
>> person, A blogger, A subject centre, A repository manager, and you
>> could make a search tool purely for yourself
>>
>> Provide could mean - via a site, as an API service, via an embeddable
>> block of code, via a URL, via emailed results, via twitter
>>
>> OER - Open licensed materials
>>
>> The only difference would be that the creator would take some role in
>> curating the content set
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Scott Wilson
>> Sent: 17 February 2011 16:08
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: An Ideal OER search Engine
>>
>> On 17 Feb 2011, at 15:46, Patrick Lockley wrote:
>>
>>> So you want to provide your own OER search facility
>>
>> Not sure what is meant by "you", "provide" or "OER" here...
>>
>> Do you mean "So, as a University you want to provide your own search
>> facility for your own content - and those of selected partners - which
>> you market as OER"?
>>
>>>
>>> Brief Spec
>>>
>>> You want to choose the sites that are searched
>>> You want to be able to limit / refine the search by x,y,z
>>> You want the results to display where? And how?
>>> Do you want the search to be provided from a URL - say
>>> www.google.com/pats_search_tool/?
>>> Or embeddable as a widget - html for your site?
>>> Or as both?
>>> Would you want the search to present data in other ways for other
>>> users (so an API could underpin it all)
>>> Would you want search logs to be maintained
>>> Would you want results chosen to be maintained
>>> Embeddable social media in results
>>> The url could also provide an RSS of all it's content
>>>
>>> Anything else?
>>>
>>> Maybe this is a google doc / wiki issue?
>>>
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