JISC CETIS and UKOER3

OER 3 programme start-up mtg, Birmingham, Nov 2011 By Phil Barker, Licensed under Creative Commons attribution only licence, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

JISC CETIS and UKOER3

Phil Barker <[email protected]>JISC CETIS Learning Technology Adviserhttp://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/

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About JISC CETIS

JISC Innovation Support Centre: Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards

provide strategic technical advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes

representing JISC on international standardisation initiatives

support various JISC Programmes



Highlights from CETIS OER phase 3 support

The technical guidelines & requirements will be similar to phases 1 and 2 There will be some commentary on where we think projects

haven’t engaged with these as we expected. Look out for a blog post.

We will try to promote innovation around OER projects through informed engagement with new & upcoming initiatives. Informed about degree of speculation/risk That’s what I’ll be talking about here



‘Informed about risk’

Hype Cycle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle



Some Initiatives for OER projects to think about

Aggregating & showcasing Microformats/microdata/schema.org/LRMI

Attribution and tracking SWORD Learning registry & paradata



Aggregation for the nation! Want to showcase the output of UKOER, so that

funders know how good it is It’s remarkably difficult to find where the outputs of

some individual phase 1 and 2 projects are. Need some way of automatically pulling out the

resources that come from the UKOER projectsSuggest: Project tag RSS feed Project “set” within a larger collection

Low risk, basic action.



Make it easy for people to find your resources

Make it easy for machines to find your resources



Learning Resource Metadata Initiative A profile of schema.org microdata mark-up Allows the human readable (self-)description of an html

resource to be marked up as machine readable metadata.

For example ... imagine this presentation as a set of web pages.

It is obvious that the title, author, licence and some other resource description stuff should be displayed prominently in it.



JISC CETIS and UKOER3

Phil Barker <[email protected]>JISC CETIS Learning Technology Adviserhttp://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/



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To some people it would be obvious that there should be machine readable metadata<head><title>JISC CETIS and OER</title><link rel="schema.DCTERMS" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" /><link rel="DCTERMS.author" href="http://people.pjjk.net/phil#id" />...



But Google, Yahoo, Bing (among others) don’t trust invisible metadata.

However, their computers would like some help in understanding what is displayed on a web page

So they promote schema.org, as a means of marking up the meaning of displayed text. Microdata semantics.



Schema.org microdata semantics

<body itemscope itemtype=‘http://schema.org/WebPage’><h1 itemprop=‘name’>JISC CETIS and UKOER 3</h1><p itemprop=‘author’

itemscope itemtype=‘http://schema.org/Person’><span itemprop=‘name’>Phil Barker</span><span itemprop=‘email’>[email protected]</span>...</p>



But is an OER more than a web page?

Is there anything that you would want to say about an OER that is education specific?

Learning resource metadata initiative: apply and extend schema.org to learning resources.



LRMI Funded by Gates and Hewlett foundations Backed by Google & Microsoft Led by Creative Commons and the Association of

Educational Publishers Focussing on identifying a small number of education

specific properties of a learning resource What is it Who is it for What is it for What does it teach/assess ...

http://www.lrmi.net/



Risk Assessment

Little effort involved assuming you can control the HTML mark-up generated by your CMS / repository.

Marking resource descriptions using schema.org microdata may help search engine optimisation. Perhaps will help with some types of resource more than

others LRMI specific mark-up is more experimental, we would

like to work with some first adopters.



Attribution and tracking

The copy&paste HTML licence information from Creative Commons comes with semantic mark up Enables tools like OpenAttribute http://openattribute.com/

Building on that CaPRéT project has build an attribution tool Also includes a tracking gif in copied text http://capret.mitoeit.org/



Learning Registry

Trying to help people find the right resource by facilitating the exchange of value judgements about resources.

Technical protocols for the aggregation of “paradata”Paradata: annotations, comments, ratings, ‘sharings’ likes, tweets about, +1s, recommendations and warnings“Social networking for learning resources”



Infrastructure

http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/othervoices/2011/03/22/thelearningregistry/

Image from Dan Rehak “The Learning registry: social networking for metadata” http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/othervoices/2011/03/22/thelearningregistry/



Learning Registry

Development funded by US Dept of Education since 2010

Community launched last week (~ public beta) Defines API by which nodes interact and through which

data can be put into the network Current nodes are based on CouchDB running on

Amazon Jisc have announced experimental node



Jisc launches Twitter project

Amber Thomas, Jisc programme manager, said: "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.

Guardian government computing http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2011/nov/09/jisc-launches-twitter-project



Assessment

Speculative People who are gathering or might use ‘paradata’

should think about whether they could help test the learning registry concept Evaluate data format for paradata Provide paradata See whether learning registry has relevant paradata Don’t bet the farm on it



SWORD

Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit Based on ATOM Pub SWORD 2 supports CRUD Supported by a number of repository platforms and

tools



SWORD Background

SWORD development project supported by JISC JISC also funded miniprojects for SWORD v2 tools

Connexions, cnx.org Right-click deposit

Intralibrary have demonstrated a SWORD-based ‘share’ app for mobile phones



Assessment

Fairly well established in some contexts. May enable resource dissemination by helping

workflow; especially where deposit is close to creation/repurposing.

Would require some effort if existing repository and tool implementations don’t align with OER context.

Explorative



Contacts

CETIS Web site: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/OER work: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/OERPhil Barker: <[email protected]>Lorna M. Campbell: <[email protected]>R. John Robertson <[email protected]>



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