OER search - how to search and locate relevant material

OER Search How to Search and Locate

Relevant Material

Pre-Symposium Workshop on OER Integration and Use in Course Development

2nd Regional Symposium on OERPenang, Malaysia

23rd June 2014

Ishan Abeywardena MSc, MSc (Brunel), BSc (Bangalore), MIEEE, MBCS, MIET, MTA

Deputy Dean and Senior Lecturer School of Science and Technology

Wawasan Open UniversityPenang, Malaysia

Outline

• What are OER?

• What are useful OER?

• OER Search

• Useful OER Sources

What are OER?

“web-based materials, offered freely and openly for use and re-use in teaching, learning and research” (Joyce, 2007).

Joyce, A. (2007). OECD Study of OER: Forum Report, OECD. Retrieved December 12, 2011 from http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forumsfiche.php?queryforumspages_id=33.

OER

“teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions”

(UNESCO Paris OER Declaration, 2012)

OER

UNESCO. (2012, June 22). 2012 PARIS OER DECLARATION. Retrieved June 13, 2013, from unesco.org: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/WPFD2009/English_Declaration.html

OER: Just another means of getting there…

basis for training the global masses

increased access

reduced costs

increased equity

Impact

What are useful OER?

How useful is a resource really?

Measures of usefulness

Openness

Accessibility

Relevance

Less useful resources are less desirable for teaching and learning needs….

What is Desirability?

Openness

Accessibility

Relevance

Openness

four ‘R’s model:

Reuse

Redistribute

Revise

Remix

Retain

Hilton, J., Wiley, D., Stein, J., & Johnson, A. (2010). The four R‘s of openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for open educational resources. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(1), 37-44.

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ER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkbeycRa2A

Lets watch a video on CC

BYBY-SA

BY-ND

BY-NCBY-NC-SA

BY-NC-ND

Unported

Ported

Accessibility

Access (ALMS)

Hilton, J., Wiley, D., Stein, J., & Johnson, A. (2010). The four R‘s of openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for open educational resources. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 25(1), 37-44.

• Access to editing tools

• Level of expertise required to revise or remix

• Meaningfully editable

• Source file access

Relevance

Content repositoriesPortal repositories

Content and portal repositoriesMcGreal, R. (2010). Open Educational Resource Repositories: An Analysis. Proceedings: The 3rd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence, 1-3 February 2010, Dubai, UAE.

Curation

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Native search mechanisms perhaps?

i. Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER.

Encourage the development of user-

friendly tools to locate and retrieve OER that are

specific and relevant to particular needs.

(UNESCO Paris OER Declaration, 2012)

The Declaration

UNESCO. (2012). Paris OER Declaration, Retrieved September18, 2012 from http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdf

OER Search

Concept of Metadata

Metadata

IEEE-LOMDCMI

Casali, A., Deco, C., Romano, A. and Tomé, G. (2013) 'An Assistant for Loading Learning Object Metadata: An Ontology Based Approach', Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects (IJELLO), vol. 9, p. 11.

LOM

DCMI

the DCMI resource model

Source: http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/ (29/08/2013)

http://creativecommons.org/tag/learning-resource-metadata-initiative

LRMI

However…the issue is

Existing Search Methods

Some Existing Solutions

• Federated Search: BRENHET2; OpeScout; Global Learning Object Brokered Exchange (GLOBE); and Pearson’s Project Blue Sky.

• Semantic Search: OER-CC ontology; the “Assistant” prototype; the “Folksemantic” project; and “Agrotags”.

Federated Search

Institution

Repos

Institution Institution

Repos Repos Repos Repos Repos

Organisation Consortium

Federation

User

Metadata

Apples

Processed Products

Nutrition

Varieties

Juice

Sauce Cider

McIntosh

Pink Lady

Honeycrisp

Disease Prevention

Fiber

Vitamins

Semantic Search

Linked Open Data

http://linkeddata.org/static/images/lod-datasets_2009-07-14_cropped.png (accessed 23/06/2014)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uju4wT9uBIA

Lets watch a video on LOD

Yeah…but which one do I choose?

Useful OER Sources

http://www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/pearson-bluesky/

http://www.globe-info.org/

Questions?

I will also be happy to answer your queries if you e-mail me via ishansa@wou.edu.my

Thanks!

About…

Ishan AbeywardenaDeputy Dean and Senior Lecturer, School of Science and Technology, Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia

• MSc in Wireless Enterprise Business Systems, Brunel University, UK.• MSc in Engineering Management, Brunel University, UK.• BSc in Computer Science, Bangalore University, India.• PhD Candidate in Computer Science, University Malaya, Malaysia. Areas of specialisation: text mining,

metadata, faceted search

Professional Member of– Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (MIEEE)– British Computer Society (MBCS)– Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET)– Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)– Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA)

Official Profile: http://www.wou.edu.my/IshanAbeywardena.htmlProfessional Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ishansaResearch Profile: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ishan_Abeywardena/Tech Blog: http://www.ishantalks.comE-mail: ishansa@wou.edu.my

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