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Supporting teaching in higher education to improve student learning across the Biosciences
OeRBITAL – Launching and Sustaining OER
Chris Taylor
Follow me @chr1staylorhttp://tinyurl.com/bioukoer
UK Centre for Bioscience logo © University of Leeds. All rights reserved.
The story so far...
JISC/HEA OER pilot phase (09/10)
Pilot project with 10 partner institutions to explore the issues surrounding open educational resources, production and use/reuse
LocateCall out to Bioscience community to put forward
*potential* OER for development Collate
Rework into OER and upload to JorumOpen, suitably described and tagged
AggregateEnsured all resources bioukoer-tagged to ease resurfacing and assist tackingGeneral HE – Bioscience JorumOpen (JO) collection easy
Individual PPs resources difficult - custom (Feed43) solution required
OER1 Tried to automate as much as possible
Monitoring and aggregation of blog outputs from 10 partners YahooPipes
Potential tracking of re-uploaded resources Monitor new uploads for relevant keywords
Limited – reliant on upload to same repository using same/v.similar title
Harvesting of JorumOpen-held bioukoer resources to reproduce on Bioscience website for added context
YahooPipes Feed43
YahooPipes
Why? Wanted straight-forward way to collate project
partners’ blog entries and other resource outputs Visual and fairly user-friendly Versatile
Just scratched the surface Number of ways of exporting results
Can produce size-customisable output window to embed in site/output through web2.0 in addition to standard further RSS feed output
Examples of my YahooPipes: http://tinyurl.com/bioukoerYahooPipes
YahooPipes
YahooPipes
YahooPipes
However, restricted by content and quality of RSS feed input to it
Unable to draw out our specific project partner resources from JO due to lack of keywords field in RSS Not practical to repeat keywords in description body
So, more challenging solution required Feed43
Feed43 custom RSS
What? Feed43 is a free third-party custom RSS creator http://feed43.com/ Scrapes contents of URLs offered to it and
produces tailored RSS feed based on defined search parameters
Feed43 logo Copyright © 2006–2009 A.I.Studio. All rights reserved.
Feed43 custom RSS Why?
To resurface links to JO records within our own site
11 pages on our site required content Central page and each of 10 project partners
http://tinyurl.com/bioukoer Updates pages automatically when new resources
added Sustainable
Side-effect: caused issue with JO search data
Feed43 custom RSS
How? Run specific search query in JorumOpen for
individual partners (Surname AND bioukoer) Take resulting URL and input into Feed43 Set parameters on data to collect and output Bake for 40-50 mins until golden Manipulate using ASP.NET* and display on website
More details on blog:
http://tinyurl.com/bioukoerFeed43 *If easier you can of course feed resulting RSS into
YahooPipes instead
Feed43 custom RSS
From this:
Feed43 custom RSS
To this:
Risks
Vulnerable to stability of third-party applications Feed43 YahooPipes
Reliant on JorumOpen not changing their search results URLs
OER phase 2: OeRBITAL
Open educational Resources for Bioscientists Involved in Teaching And Learning (Aug10/11) Sustaining OER, not creating
JISC/HEA OER phase 2 Thematic Collections strand
To identify existing dispersed OER from multiple repositories and build subject-specific collections
Focus on reuse to provide sustainability
OeRBITAL
8-12 Discipline Consultants (DC) Discovery agents and curators
2-3 Learning Technologists Assist adaption Provide example enhancements Combine resources
OeRBITAL
Planned use of MediaWiki as hub Established standard Familiar and straightforward
Themed areas/collections curated by individual DCs
Consideration of WordPress installation
OeRBITAL Use experience from OER1 to automate as much as possible
Locate Mine existing repositories Use Discipline Consultants' local knowledge and network contacts to
unearth resources, and to identify demand
Collate Feed resource links into wiki structure (or poss WordPress) to build
collections and add educational context.
Aggregate Use Learning Technologists’ expertise to enhance/combine collections
where possible Produce feeds from themed collections for further distribution/promotion
opportunities
Supporting teaching in higher education to improve student learning across the Biosciences
OeRBITAL – Launching and sustaining OER
Chris Taylor
@chr1staylorhttp://tinyurl.com/bioukoer
UK Centre for Bioscience logo © University of Leeds. All rights reserved.
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