Featured posts about Open Education Resources Many of these posts relate to the UKOER programme.

General Issues

• Public funding, OER, and academics: a brief reflection
• An OER Manifesto in 20 minutes
• Technical challenges for managing Open Educational Resources
• Managing OERs: the problem of version control?
• Open Education: project or process and practice?
• JISC and MIT: comparing notes on ed tech
• Are OERs just Re-usable Learning Objects with an open license?
• Open Education and OERs
• Threshold Concepts and OERs
• Notes from the web: badges, governance, open textbooks
• opened10: brief thoughts
• Open Education and OER is like?
• Don’t forget the public domain
• OER Hackday: initial reflections

Metadata and Standards

• OERs, Metadata, and self-description
• Comparing metadata requirements for OERs (part 1)
• Comparing metadata requirements for OERs (part 2)
• Comparing metadata requirements for OERs (part 3)

UKOER synthesis

• Overview Paper: Technology and Descriptive Choices for UKOER
• The use of ADL SCORM in the UKOER programme
• The use of OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE in the UKOER programme
• The use of Dublin Core metadata in the UKOER programme
• The use of IEEE LOM in the UKOER programme
• The use of IMS CP in the UKOER programme
• The use of IMS QTI in the UKOER programme
• Use of web publishing tools in the UKOER programme
• The use of Web 2.0 tools in the UKOER programme
• The use of Content Packaging and Learning Object creation tools in the UKOER programme
• The use of VLEs in the UKOER programme
• Custom ‘repository’ developments in the UKOER programme
• Use of repository software in the UKOER programme

UKOER 2 synthesis

• UKOER 2: technical synthesis introduction
• UKOER 2: content description
• UKOER 2: licences and Encoding
• UKOER 2: content management platforms
• UKOER 2: OER creation tools used
• UKOER 2: analytics and tools to manipulate OERs
• UKOER 2: dissemination protocols in use and representation in Jorum
• UKOER 2: collections, technology and community
• UKOER 2: without the collections Strand

Deposit and aggregation

• Workflow and deposit tools for learning materials
• RSS for deposit, Jorum and UKOER: part 1 review
• RSS for deposit, Jorum and UKOER: part 2 commentary
• DepoST : what would a repository deposit tool look like for learning materials?
• CETIS OER Gathering (pre-event)