OER Search How to Search and Locate Relevant Material Pre-Symposium Workshop on OER Integration and Use in Course Development 2 nd Regional Symposium on OER Penang, Malaysia 23 rd June 2014
Jan 27, 2015
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.
O in O
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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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 [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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