On 03/04/12 17:03, Pat Lockley wrote:
> Xpert logs every search, and attribution, and social media share.
>
> Guessing edshare and jorum must have logs?
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
>
> 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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>> Glasgow
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