Might see you at OER3 start up on Monday?
Viv
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Amber THOMAS <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Viv,
Great, I'll contact you!
Amber
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From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Vivien Rolfe
Sent: 11 November 2011 10:34
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Subject: Re: News Release: Social media technologies to improve the discovery of educational content
Hi Amber
I'd like to find out more about this and also the group could possibly involve our SEO expert Dr Simon Griffin?
Thanks
Viv
Dr Vivien Rolfe
Principal Lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology
Teacher Fellow / Faculty eLearning Team
School of Allied Health Sciences
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH
Tel: 0116 2577578
SCOOTER Open Educational Resources at DMU
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From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amber THOMAS
Sent: 08 November 2011 09:40
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Subject: FW: News Release: Social media technologies to improve the discovery of educational content
Dear oer-discuss list members
Good news! See below
This work is funded by the OER Programme and the Learning Registry Team is on this list, so you should be hearing more about this over the coming months.
We will be looking for people to join a UK task group to run this experiment
To join the task group you will need:
* A significant corpus of content that is freely available on the web, so that you can contribute it (NB it doesn't have to be openly licensed content, but the feeds/metadata does need to be openly licensed!)
* A technical person with an interest in the technologies of the LR, so that you can consume the data
* An interest about what the data analytics can tell us
We're really looking for institutions to join the task group, who have access to all the above.
Have a think!
You'll hear more soon.
Amber
From: A JISC announce list. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rebecca OBrien
Sent: 08 November 2011 09:24
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Subject: News Release: Social media technologies to improve the discovery of educational content
News Release
8 November 2011
Social media technologies to improve the discovery of educational content
The UK is to participate in a global experiment, based on the social media technology behind Twitter and Facebook, to find out how the social activity around online educational content can be captured and fed back to users, creators and publishers.
Working with the Learning Registry, a project funded by the US Department of Education and the US Department of Defence, JISC and the HE Academy are calling for institutions and developers to work with them on a new 10 month project. This project will lay the foundations of an infrastructure that will improve the way people choose educational information online.
Amber Thomas, JISC programme manager says, "This international collaboration will see us contributing the UK's expertise to the Learning Registry. We are working with Mimas and JISC CETIS to support the Registry's vision of gathering together the conversations, ratings, recommendations and usage data around digital content.
"We know that users and providers want access to more information about how educational content is used by others and this is an innovative approach to meeting that need."
It is commonplace to read reviews of books, music and items before your choose to buy or use them. This experiment will look to assess how we can create the technical capabilities to reveal a rich picture of what people are doing with educational content.
Steve Midgley, Deputy Director, Office of Education Technology at the US Department of Education says, "I am greatly encouraged by the collaboration and opportunity presented by our work with JISC on the Learning Registry."
This builds on JISC's work in discovery, activity data, Jorum and open educational resources supporting the discovery, use and analytics of digital resources for teaching, learning and research. The experiment will give, JISC a much clearer view of the potential of this approach, and there will be a rich dataset of content available to future services.
Read more on the Learning Registry at <http://www.learningregistry.org/about>
Find out about the Learning Registry Node Experiment at <http://bit.ly/w0XBCb>
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