2. 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
Locate
Call out to Bioscience community to put forward
*potential* OER for development
Collate
Rework into OER and upload to JorumOpen, suitably
described and tagged
Aggregate
Ensured all resources bioukoer-tagged to ease resurfacing
and assist tacking
General HE – Bioscience JorumOpen (JO) collection easy
Individual PPs resources difficult - custom (Feed43) solution
required
3. 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
4. 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
7. 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
9. 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
10. 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
13. Risks
Vulnerable to stability of third-party
applications
Feed43
YahooPipes
Reliant on JorumOpen not changing their
search results URLs
14. 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
15. OeRBITAL
8-12 Discipline Consultants (DC)
Discovery agents and curators
2-3 Learning Technologists
Assist adaption
Provide example enhancements
Combine resources
16. OeRBITAL
Planned use of MediaWiki as hub
Established standard
Familiar and straightforward
Themed areas/collections curated by
individual DCs
Consideration of WordPress installation
17. 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