I have a sort of set of OER Metadata, is fifteen grand the fee still?
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Phil Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 03/04/12 17:03, Pat Lockley wrote:
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>> Xpert logs every search, and attribution, and social media share.
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>> Guessing edshare and jorum must have logs?
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> OK, there are two things here. First some analysis of "in-system" search log
> files to see what terms people search for because this might yield useful
> information about what metadata we should provide. We didn't get any bids to
> do this when we suggested it as a miniproject. It's still in my workplan to
> explore this more, but if anyone wants to pick it up...
>
> Secondly referrer log or Google analytic data to show how people get to OER
> hosting sites, or resources on those sites (do they come via Google
> searches, do they get straight to the OER page or have to go via the
> home/search page or some other page). That kind of overlaps a bit with the
> first thing if you extend it to include analysis of what search terms are
> used when Google is the route to the site, but it is different.
>
> Some of the resources from when we first had these discussions (at the
> #CetisWMD meeting) are gathered at
> http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Event:_what_metadata_is_really_useful and
> http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2010/10/19/cetiswmd-summary/
>
> Phil
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>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Lorna Campbell<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jenny,
>>>
>>> a) do learners value the finer little OERs
>>>
>>> Not sure about learners, but I think educators do. There's a reasonable
>>> amount of feedback from users of OU materials that a finer-grained download
>>> than 'the whole unit' would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> b) is google THE 'aggregator' or 'finder'
>>>
>>> Probably, and definitely for people who aren't already familiar with the
>>> OER movement - that's to say the ordinary teacher who just wants an x to use
>>> in next week's lesson. Wasn't there some discussion / work a while back
>>> about mining our sites' statistics to find out that sort of thing? Certainly
>>> over half of OpenLearn traffic comes from search.
>>>
>>> Yes, mining search logs to find out more about how users search for
>>> educational resources was one of the things we wanted to explore through the
>>> OER Mini Projects. Nobody submitted a bid though :( We still think there's
>>> really useful work to be done there though. Perhaps we need o explore
>>> other ways to get this done. Anyone got any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Lorna
>>>
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