Additional OER Technical Work
Status: May - August 2010.
Background
CETIS and ICBL have been requested to undertake some additional technical work for the Academy/JISC OER Pilot Programme over and above that already being undertaken through the CETIS OER Programme Support Project and CETIS core. Three areas have been identified as being relevant to the UKOER programme and well aligned with existing activities and interests in CETIS: the application of syndication feeds to repository ingest ("feed deposit"), aggregation across OER providers, and the tracking and analysis of OER use.
My Role
My duties for this project will include:
- Feed Deposit
- Identifying projects, initiatives, services, that are engaged in relevant work
- Identify and validate the issues that would arise with respect to RSS deposit
- Identify current approaches used to address these issues, and identify where consensus may be readily achieved
- Aggregation
- Provide and document demonstrators
- Collate Lessons Learnt
- Participate in developer event
Publications:
- Discovering OERs through RSS and APIs
Presented at Open Educational Resources International Symposium (UKOER10), London, July 2010