Hi Amber,

As part of our JISC funded X4L project The Learning Bank we conducted a review of freely available educational content. The search process involved looking for suitable educational materials in the curriculum areas of Catering and Marketing first using Google then, using the same keyword search, in the RDN (www.rdn.ac.uk) The first ten results from each search were then evaluated in terms of 

• Curriculum mapping
• Format of content and user end requirements
• Media mix
• Accessibility elements of content
• Granularity of content
• Copyright restrictions of content
• Potential uses of content and reusability rating

Although the purpose of the review was not primarily to make a direct comparison of the materials found via the Google and those in the RDN the final report, which you can download from our project website, includes a detailed comparison of the each resource (section 3 Review Results) in a format which might facilitate your research. For example:

3.2.6 Metadata

 

Total

• 40.1% of total that have metadata attached to the content
• 405 out of 998
• 4.3% of Total where metadata = yes that have a metadata rating of 3+
• 43 out of 998

Marketing

• 29.8% of the Marketing resources have metadata attached to the content.
• 71 out of 236
• 25.3% of the Marketing resources where metadata = yes that have a metadata rating of 3+
• 18 out of 71

Catering

• 43.8% of H&C that have metadata attached to the content
• 334 out of 762
• 3.3% of H&C where metadata = yes that have a metadata rating of 3+
• 25 out of 762
•  

RDN

• 19.3% of the Marketing resources from the RDN have metadata attached to the content.
• 18 out of 93
• 44.4% of the Marketing resources from the RDN have metadata rated at 3+ attached to the content.
• 8 out of 18
• 28.5% of Catering resources that are from RDN that have metadata
• 77 out of 270
• 5.2% of Catering resources from RDN that have metadata rating of 3+
• 14 out of 270

Web

• 37% of the Marketing resources from the Web have metadata attached to the content.
•  53 out of 143
• 18.8% of the Marketing from Web that have metadata rating of 3+
• 10 out of 53
• 51.8% of Catering resources that are from Web that have metadata
• 255 out of 492
• 2.2% of Catering resources from Web that have metadata rating of 3+
• 11 out of 492

More information is available on our project website:
http://moodle.sbc.ac.uk:81/thelearningbank/

Content Review:
http://moodle.sbc.ac.uk:81/thelearningbank/index.php?menu=4&submenu=2

You can also browse the database:
http://moodle.sbc.ac.uk:81/thelearningbank/content_review/

I hope this helps with your research.

All the best,

jerome