Open Educational Resources - OER

Dr. Jad [email protected]

www.eummena.org

International Learning Object Repositories

8 May 2012 – Tunis, Tunisia

Open Educational Resources (OER)

LTSC LOMTwitter: @najjar

Outline

• Introduction of organizations–Open Educational Resources (Learning

Objects) repositories

• Outcome-based learning• Cooperation opportunities

Share and Reuse of Open Educational Resources

Learners (seekers)

Educational resource example

Describe (index)

Find to reuse (reuse)

Teacher (creator)

Teachers (seekers)

Find to learn

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[Hodgins, 2002]

- Mona Lisa Picture- Document - Chapter, Lesson on the painting or the painter (Da Vinci)- 4 year curriculum on art

‘any digital resource that can be reused to support learning’ [Wiley, 2000]

Metadata

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• Descriptive data • “data about data”!!• Purpose

– Describes a resource– For discovery and identification

• Includes elements like – title, description, author, keywords

Metadata & Educational Resources

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- IEEE LTSC IEEE LTSC LOMLOM

Example taken from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/ceri/01ceri.html

alliance with • Global Learning Objects Brokering Exchange

(GLOBE) Alliance• contributing towards the development of a global

learning infrastructure that can be accessible from all

• one-stop-shop for learning resource broker organizations, each of them managing and/or federating one or more learning object repositories

www.globe-info.org

GLOBE is powered by ARIADNE• metadata infrastructure of ARIADNE used to support

federated search in allied GLOBE repositories

ProviderBroker

User

Brokering Metadata

Author OUJapan

GLOBE(Broker)

ProviderBrokerARIADNE UserUser

UserAuthor UserUser

MetadataGathering

MetadataExposure

MetadataExposure

Technologies

• GLOBE uses the ARIADNE infrastructure

• About 100 partners providing more than 200 collections

• About 20 different validation schemes• Harvesting more than 2,000,000

metadata but not all are selected

Technologies (2)

• Metadata Gathering and Exposure– Registering Collections– Harvesting through OAI-PMH: Open Archive Initiative –

Protocol for Metadata Harvesting• Get copy of metadata localy

– Federated Search through SQI: Simple Query Interface• Send quesries to remote repositories

– Validation– Transformation– Indexing

• Exposure through the GLOBE portal

Open Educational Resources (OER)• In the last decade, the challenge was to

– Put open educational resources (OERs) in online repositories

• Connecting the repositories worldwide

• Limited OER initiatives in the Arab World– No dedicated financial support in form of research projects– Copyrights issues– Low availability of Arabic content in existing international

repositories

• Opportunities?

Eummena

• Not-for-profit association established to advance learning technologies and foster Share and Reuse of Learning Resources

• Create standards-based applications that allow retrieval and publication of open educational resources

• Support Globe and Ariadne in covering the Arab region– Use of Globe/Ariadne technologies– Contribute the Arabic experience, technology and content to

Globe– We need you…

www.eummena.org

OER & LMS

• Offer OERs in the living cloud of teachers and learners (learning management systems (LMS), social learning networks)– Moodle, Sakai, Elgg, etc..

• All-in-house features, just blend it in• Adapt applications for culture• Encourage connecting to global OER

repositories

LMS OER widgets

• Finding and sharing OER Ariadne/Globe Moodle 2.0 search widget

o Search and share OERs from within Moodleo Track user activities for improving recommendations and

personalization

• Publishing OER into repositories Ariadne/Globe Moodle automatic metadata

generator moduleoBuilding on Ariadne Samgi frameworkoContext and usage (attention) metadata is captured

Live Demo1) Moodle Globe Search widget

2) Generation of metadata and indexation of learning objects into an educational repository

Link to Ariadne search widget demo

Ariadne Moodle 2.0 search widget

Ariadne Moodle 2.0 search widgetOER Detail

Open Discovery Space• CIP PSP funded initiative aiming to deploy a pan-

European open eLearning content infrastructure 14 M Euro

Research Challenges and Opportunities

• Improve recommendation services of open educational resources– Usage metadata, context, etc.

• Smart generation of metadata conformant to standards

• Personalization, integration and usable interfaces

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Metadata for Learning Outcomes

• Describes the characteristics of a learning outcomes• Enable storage, referencing, sharing Learning outcomes data

Explain characteristics of

human-centered design

methods

knowledge

ICOPER LOD

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IEEE RCD

CEN WSLT InLOC project

Metadata for Learning Opportunities (MLO)• Describe an opportunity a learner can follow• Enables publishing metadata across universities/countries

ICOPER MLO

APP

Metadata for Personal Achievements• Represent information on achieved/required/desired learning outcomes of a learner. Also teachers (taught

outcomes)• Share data with LMSs, recruitment systems, social applications

ICOPER MLO

APP

ICOPER PALO

Import Outcome-based Learning Design

http://develix.iml.umu.se/moodle/

Learning and tracking of achievements…….

View achieved learning outcomes and recommendations of content and peers

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Potential cooperation opportunities

• Arab partners join network of Eummena and Globe– Use of technical framework– Access learning content– Publish content (connect your university

repository)

• Joint research projects– International/EU/USA– Anything else?

Dr. Jad [email protected]

www.eummena.org

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