Happy Open Education Week! - Join us for webinar on OER, MOOCs and learner mobility

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Happy Open Education Week!

Open Education Week 2014 is a celebration of the global Open Education movement and takes place from March 10-15, with both online and locally hosted events around the world.

Join the OER Foundation and the OERu network for a webinar on Open education, open online courses and learner mobility. 

Event details

Date: 10 March 2014

Time:  Noon (Central European Time) - Click here for your local time zone (or countdown link) 

Webinar link: http://connect.athabascau.ca/oew2014 (enter as guest)

Athabasca University is hosting a series of webinars during Open Education Week 2014 profiling the eMundus project (download poster). 

Look forward to seeing you online as we plan for scalable and sustainable OER futures in higher education. 

[Nagarjuna G]

 

Hello,

 

I would like to know if LRMI metadata is considered standard enough for OER? I notice that CC is also pushing LRMI. http://creativecommons.org/tag/learning-resource-metadata-initiative

 

I do not recall if wikieducator community already had a discussion on this subject, if so please direct me to the thread.

 

thanks

GN

 

 

 

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi GN,

I don't recall any specific discussions on LRMI on the WikiEducator list - -although the topic of discoverability of OER pops up from time to time. 

Why do you ask?

Wayne

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[Jim Tittsler]

There was some discussion about an New Zealand metadata vocabulary (on
this list and the wikieducator-tech list) in 2010, but I don't believe
any progress was made.
http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools/Metadata

[Phil Barker]

On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 05:33:51 UTC, Nagarjuna G wrote:
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> I would like to know if LRMI metadata is considered standard enough for OER? I notice that CC is also pushing LRMI. http://creativecommons.org/tag/learning-resource-metadata-initiative
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Hello. Yes, Creative Commons do support LRMI. They, along with the American Association of Publishers, were funded by the Gates foundation to extend schema.org so that it could be used to describe educationally significant characteristics of resources, that initiative became LRMI. I work with Creative Commons on that, I also have a background in metadata and Open Educational Resources in general.

The elements that LRMI proposed were adopted by schema.org some time ago, so in terms of being "standard enough" they can be considered alongside the rest of schema.org. If you are thinking of schema.org / microdata in the HTML of OERs in order to provide embedded metadata that can be used to enhance resource discovery, then you would be following many of the biggest sites on the web, with the backing of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Obviously whereas YouTube uses the schema elements for videos, you would want to use those parts of schema that are relevant to education, and so would use LRMI properties. You wouldn't be the first, among those already using LRMI properties in the HTML of their public webpages are MIT OCW and OER Commons.

If you're thinking of using LRMI as the basis for a metadata schema in some other context, or in some other serialization, that too is possible. For example the Learning Registry <http://learningregistry.org/> store LRMI metadata as JSON records.

Either way it would be good to know more about what you have in mind.

I think LRMI / schema.org is a good match for OER. schema.org microdata or RDFa embedded in HTML is designed to support the discovery of resources on the open web whereas other metadata approaches come into their own when the resource itself cannot be searched.

Let me know if I can help.

best regards, Phil Barker

[Nagarjuna G]

Thanks for al lthe replies. Wayne, Jim and Phil.

 

Here is the elaboration of the project I am doing. In India NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) has an education technology unit called CIET (Central Institute for Educational Technology). My team at the gnowledge lab (http://lab.gnowledge.org/) is collaborating with them in designing and developing the platform that will publish all the topics covered in the school education in India from class 1 to Class 12). The portal is taking shape at http://nroer.in/. All topics will be linked to resources. The resources can be pictures, videos, text, simulations and other interactive learning objects. All these resources will be proper OER, in the sense that they will be released under CC by SA.

 

In the new incarnation of the portal, we would like to support standard metadata. Naturally LRMI came to my attention. Since we already know how to use schema.org, it is not difficult for us to implement LRMI. We wish to complete this work by June 2014.

 

Since a large number of educational resources will become available, and in several laguages of our country, this will eventually become a massive OER repo. Curating such a big repo with a standard metadata vocabulary is therefore essential.

 

We are also thinking about supporting OAI-PMH protocol. This will be next step.

 

Phil's response is giving me an assurance, so we could confidently spend time to support schema.org and LRMI.

 

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GN