Questions for UK OER People
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Robert Robertson
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> Hi Pat,
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> Not sure if these are questions you're asking the LR or questions for us. :-)
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> My 2 cents:
> 1) you'd probably end up building something with some of the same functions as a repository to support some of the management, metadata creation and preservation side of the stuff a repo does.
> I guess the question back would be how much of that side of things could be also actually be disaggregated into multiple lightweight tools. [wonder if repo community are thinking about this]
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> 2) what sort of services? Do you mean providers offering support for students/staff (eg openstudy?) or 'function' type services - forums, vles, media players?
> If you're thinking of vle like things i'd like to see ways to get some md/pd out of less formal systems as well. E.g. use of content in wordpress (in the same way the oerbital folk are worked on md/pd out of mediawiki).
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> It would also be interesting to think about how some content types fit into this model - eg open textbooks which might lack some of the coordinating infrastructure / tracking that commercial digital textbooks have.
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> 3) no particular opinion yet about what else might be useful apart from - don't overly increase barrier to entry; use existing standards, don't cram new types of info into your spec if appropriate standards exist already; though that prompts a question: do you need soem note of what types of md are available (i need to go back and read the Lr/ paradata spec to see how this is currently handled)
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> 4) as a resource creator i'd want to interact with whatever i sue to manage stuff anyway and have that interact with LR; personally i think resource creators (eg desktop sword) interacting with the LR breaks the model - there's no use -related data/ context of use.
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> Does that make sense?
> john
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 17 June 2011 12:48
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> Subject: LR questions
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> Here are some starters for ten
>
> 1) Do you still need a repository - can you build what you need around
> the LR and some files on a website?
> 2) Where can you think of services providing links to elearning
> content being deployed? What tools would you like?
> 3) What paradata and metadata would you find useful (for example no
> geodata at the moment is stored)?
> 4) How would you like to add your resources to the learning registry?
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