JISC CETIS Support for
UKOER
Phil Barker <philb@icbl.hw.ac.uk>
JISC CETIS Learning Technology Advisor
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/
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About JISC CETIS
 JISC Innovation Support Centre: Educational
Technology and Interoperability Standards
 provide strategic technical advice to JISC, supporting
its development programmes
 representing JISC on international standardisation
initiatives
 work with the wider educational community to facilitate
the use of standards-based eLearning.
 support various JISC Programmes
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Domains and working groups
Domains Working groups:
 Accessibility  Short life span, specific outputs,
 Assessment smaller in scale than SIGs.
 Educational Content (EC)
 Responding to needs of
community
 E-Portfolio
 Some associated with a JISC
 Enterprise
project
 Metadata and Digital
Repositories (MDR)
 E.g.
 Semantic technologies in
 Lifelong Learning
teaching and learning;
 Pedagogy
 widgets & mashups
 cloud computing &
institutions
 Content transcoder
 OER???
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CETIS web
 Staff blogs
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/
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RSS Logo by “Brutus” from Flickr, CC-by-SA,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/browneye/3010300312/

CETIS web
 Staff blogs
 Wiki
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_OER
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CETIS web
 Staff blogs
 Wiki
 Domain
pages
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/domain/educational-content
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CETIS web
 Staff blogs
 Wiki
 Domain
pages
 Home page
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/
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CETIS OER Support
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CETIS OER Support : Briefing Paper
 Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and
challenges for higher education
Li Yuan, Sheila MacNeill, Wilbert Kraan (Sept 2008)
http://tinyurl.com/kkek7r
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CETIS OER Support : Event
 CETIS OER/OU OpenLearn Event, Feb 2009
 All presentations
available online
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CETIS OER Support: Technical advice
Metadata for OER : little case study in how we do
technical advice
 JISC programme manager asks for technical
requirements for UKOER
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CETIS OER Support: Technical advice
Metadata for OER : little case study in how we do
technical advice
 JISC programme manager asks for technical
requirements for UKOER
 Relevant people in CETIS confer
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Phone, by “Alexkerhead” from Flickr CC-by, http://www.flickr.com/
photos/alexkerhead/2657194497/

CETIS OER Support: Technical advice
Metadata for OER : little case study in how we do
technical advice
 JISC programme manager asks for technical
requirements for UKOER
 Relevant people in CETIS confer
 Advice sent to JISC, used in call for proposals and
posted on blog.
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CETIS OER Support: Technical advice
Metadata for OER : little case study in how we do
technical advice
 Project proposer emails us to query the metadata
requirements.
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CETIS OER Support: Technical advice
Metadata for OER : little case study in how we do
technical advice
 Project proposer emails us to query the metadata
requirements.
 Discussion...
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CETIS OER Support: Technical advice
Metadata for OER : little case study in how we do
technical advice
 Project proposer emails us to query the metadata
requirements.
 Discussion.
 Blog post
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CETIS OER Support: Technical advice
Metadata for OER : little case study in how we do
technical advice
 But not just reactive: query was about metadata ...
<lom:lom xmlns:lom=\"http://ltsc.ieee.org/xsd/LOM\"
xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"
xsi:schemaLocation=\"http://ltsc.ieee.org/xsd/LOM http://ltsc.ieee.org/xsd/
lomv1.0/lomLoose.xsd\">
<lom:general>
<lom:identifier>
<lom:catalog>IntraLibrary-OAI</lom:catalog>
<lom:entry>oai:uk.ac.ed.ucs.bodach.jorum:3770</lom:entry>
</lom:identifier>
<lom:title><lom:string language=\"en\">An introduction to
crystallography</lom:string>
</lom:title>
<lom:description><lom:string language=\"en\">
A collection of six learning objects for use in teaching about
crystallography.
</lom:string>
</lom:description>
<lom:language>en</lom:language>
<lom:keyword> <lom:string language=\"en\">rotation symmetry</lom:string>
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CETIS OER Support: Technical advice
Metadata for OER : little case study in how we do
technical advice
 But not just reactive: query was about LOM metadata
what about resource description in web2.0 / social
web?
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Summary
 Sector level support
 Community driven
 Most of the questions are open ended ...
so are the answers
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Contacts
CETIS Web site: http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/
OER resources:
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Educational_Content_OER
Phil Barker: <philb@icbl.hw.ac.uk>
Lorna M Campbell: <lmc@strath.ac.uk>
Sheila MacNeill: <s.macneill@strath.ac.uk>
Li Yuan: <L.Yuan@bolton.ac.uk>
R. John Robertson <robert.robertson@strath.ac.uk>
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