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Boris Bockelmann

Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Edu... - 0 views

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OER cc education metadata

shared by Boris Bockelmann on 20 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Particularly for OERs, the current type of static metadata is not a good fit: authors of OERs are notoriously negligent about filling out metadata fields. For free content, with few exceptions (notably MIT Open Courseware), there is no infrastructure for anybody else to do the cataloging. Thus, this type of static metadata is essentially useless, and educators cannot find the content they need.
  • information is scattered, embedded into other contexts, or of the wrong granularity
  • For content to be truly reusable and remixable, it needs to be context-free
  • Boris Bockelmann on 20 Mar 13
     
    Der Artikel zeigt die Hürden bei der Verbreitung von OER auf und mündet in der technisch realistischen Forderung nach einem "Supersize-CMS" mit der offen bleibenden Frage der Finanzierung...
Florian Sänger

Open Educational Resource (OER) portal pilot - 0 views

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shared by Florian Sänger on 13 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • The primary aim of this project is to develop the first working prototype of an Open Educational Resource portal service, by developing a metadata aggregation engine and a web portal front-end.
  • create a one-stop-shop for national learning resource providers and their users
  • metadata only not the object itself, the content remains in its original repository
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  • trace the users' behavior and thus identify them and follow their learning methods. In this way, OER can provide users search targets tailored to their personal learning profile.
  • the idea of a European-level open educational resource portal to address the gap between national- and global-level repositories
Jöran Muuß-Merholz

Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education Resources - Market Brief - 0 views

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shared by Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 14 Feb 16 - Cached
  • Feb. 14, 2016
  • Amazon Education is working on a new platform that will allow schools to upload, manage, share, and discover open education resources from a home page that in some ways resembles the one shoppers are accustomed to accessing on the massive online retailer’s website.
  • to be called Amazon Inspire
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  • during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association
  • The new platform is in beta testing now, and is scheduled to be released publicly within the next two to three months
  • Users of the site will be able to add ratings and reviews, and to receive recommendations based on their previous selections
  • Educators will be able to curate open resources, self-publish material they have developed, and put a school’s entire digital library that is open and freely available online
  • select categories to modify their searches for open resources, much the way shoppers on Amazon today can choose categories to filter their searches
  • a completely free, open platform for free resources.
  • This piece we have committed to making absolutely free forever. We’re not going to lock the content up. We promised we won’t put a pay wall in front of it.
  • how it will achieve financial sustainability for Amazon Inspire, he said it could be in connecting users to books they might want to buy
  • or in using Amazon’s capabilities in self-publishing books
  • a lesson one of his educators uploaded in testing requires certain materials like batteries and coils
  • will be assigned metadata tags identified through the Learning Registry, a federally sponsored, online information-sharing network
  • “All of these groups–Amazon, Microsoft, Edmodo–they’re publishing their platforms on top of the Learning Registry,”
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