Hello all,

See below for link to (and text of) JLeRN blog post on OER Rapid Innovation projects working with JLeRN and/or the Learning Registry.

Had a brief chat with Suzanne Hardy at the end of the Programme Meeting last week about what might help these projects, and any others interested in JLeRN / The Learning Registry.

Can you please shout if (a) you have an OER RI (or any OER) project interested in this stuff and I haven’t mentioned you in the blog post, and (b) if you have an idea of what might be helpful for you to move on with this aspect of your project.

Suzanne and I were just thinking, maybe a kick-off virtual meeting of some kind (with CETIS input too).

Thanks

Sarah

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Date: 3 April 2012 09:54
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Hello all,

For those who don't follow the JLeRN blog, thought you might be interested in these new JISC-funded projects (blog post here: http://jlernexperiment.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/jlern-and-the-jisc-oer-rapid-innovation-projects/ ).

Text of post here:

JLeRN and the JISC OER Rapid Innovation Strand

The HE Academy / JISC OER3 Programme‘s new Rapid Innovation strand projects kicked off last week in London at the Programme Meeting. We are thrilled that there are four projects within the strand who want to work with us on Learning Registry related developments.

With only four months left for JLeRN, we want to make the most of the time we have, and participating in well-thought-out projects meeting real requirements in the OER space seems like a good way to consolidate what we’ve learned so far. All of these projects involve folk who supported us by coming to the Hackday in January and the CETIS Conference Learning Registry session in February so it’ll be nice to give something back.

The four projects we are working with are as follows (NB: There were a few other sparks of interest in the OER Rapid Innovation projects’ breakout session, so I think we may pick up a few more along the way: don’t be shy to get in touch if you’d like to work with us):

Rapid Innovation Dynamic Learning Maps-Learning Registry (RIDLR)

Based at Newcastle University, and led by Simon Cotterill, this project will build on their Dynamic Learning Maps work, and their FavOERites social bookmarking project, to develop “open APIs to harvest and release paradata on OER from end-users (bookmarks, tags, comments, ratings and reviews etc.) from the Learning Registry and other sources for specific topics, within the context of curriculum and personal maps.”

Sharing Paradata Across Widget Stores (SPAWS)

Based at Bolton University (with partners KMi (Open University); IMC AG, Saarbruecken; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and led by Scott Wilson, this project will use the Learning Registry infrastructure to share paradata in the form of user views, reviews and ratings about educational widgets across four existing widget stores.

Xerte Experience Now Improved: Targeting HTML5 (XENITH)

Based at Nottingham University (with partners JISC TechDIS, EDINA and Mimas (us!)), and led by Julian Tenney, this project builds on the Xerte Online Toolkits, which integrates directly with the Xpert Repository. As an adjunct to its main development work, it will explore sharing metadata and paradata about Xerte resources with the Learning Registry.

Track OER: Tracking Open Educational Resources

Based at the Open University, and led by Patrick McAndrew, this project aims to “develop software that can help track open educational resources” as they are used away from their point of origin. JLeRN has already entered discussions with them to ensure mutual affordances are identified.

In addition to these projects, the University of Liverpool will soon be working with the JLeRN team to set up their own node. As well as assisting with meeting Liverpool’s requirements, this will enable JLeRN to experiment with sharing data between nodes at different locations. Work with Jorum will continue, and discussions have begun with the JISC Resource Discovery Programme to widen the reach of the Learning Registry concept. Watch out for blog posts on all of these activities!

Cheers all, comments and questions welcome: the blog post has project links in it.

Sarah

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