Demonstrations of OEIT's OER-supporting Software

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Demonstrations

Jeffrey Merriman, merriman@mit.edu

Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.edu

May 2010

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Goals

Show 3 examples of “open” tools for teaching and learning Openly available or openly licensed Tools you can use TODAY Showcase one or a handful of many possible uses for

each tool

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3 Demos

VUE Concept maps for curriculum development Lesson plan and lecture presentation

Folksemantic.com Recommender service

(find me content similar to what I’m looking at)

STAR: BioChem Simulation and visualization

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About VUE

Visual Understanding Environment Tufts University, vue.tufts.edu Started as slide (photo) presentation tool, linked to

content repositories (libraries and databases)…much more now!

Many possible uses…we’re just going to show two of them… Linking content and curriculum: curriculum, lesson plan

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The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will… “create India’s first independent National Innovation University focused on the challenges and opportunities of its urbanisation.”

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– Indian Institute for Human Settlements: Curriculum Framework Version 3.0

January 2010

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VUE-Contemporary India

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VUE-Search for content

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Select SourcesSelect

Sources

SearchSearch

Possible Resourc

es

Possible Resourc

es

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Look at content

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VUE-Add Content

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VUE-Content added

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VUE Manet Map with Playback

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VUE: What might it mean for you?

Curriculum Demo Developed separately a comprehensive map (view) of

curriculum, displayed in VUE

Linking curriculum with activities Using curriculum (or lesson plan/activity) as the starting

point Finding resources

Challenges Multiple users, shared map Content repositories

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vue.tufts.edu

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About Folksemantic.com

Folksemantic.com Maintained by Tatemae, Folksemantic.com Previously called OER Recommender

Going to demo one or two ways of interacting with it…

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Folksemantic.com: What does it do?

Database of resources (metadata) that it knows about

Relates the web page you’re looking at to the resources it knows about

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Folksemantic.com

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Look for recommender resources

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Folksemantic.com: What might it mean for you?

User (teacher, student) Use the Firefox extension to get recommendations

LMS/VLE/Library Embed the recommendation widget with your tool

Challenges All or nothing (with browser extension) Is it providing resource links that are valuable

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Folksemantic.com

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About STAR BioChem

STAR BioChem MIT OEIT, web.mit.edu/star/biochem

Going to demo it in the context of an exercise…

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Take it away, Jeff…

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Thank You!

Jeffrey Merriman, merriman@mit.edu

Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.edu

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