This summary provides the key points from notes on a discussion about open educational resources (OERs): 1. Tracking use of OERs was discussed, including whether it is possible and worthwhile to track usage metrics like downloads, views, and patterns of production over time. 2. Usability of OER repositories for depositing, discovering, and using resources was a topic, along with issues like metadata, search interfaces, and barriers to access. 3. Streaming large files, bandwidth management, and bulk downloading of OERs were additional technical issues that were brought up. 4. Design processes and tools to support creators of OERs, as well as licensing, rights encoding, and ensuring

1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland License. JISC/HEA Open Educational Resources Pilot Programme CETIS09 OER Technical Roundtable Notes from discussion R. John Robertson, Lorna Campbell, Phil Barker, Li Yuan

3. CETIS09OER Tracking: can we track use? is it possible? is it worthwhile? will we get useful data? Usability of repositories (deposit, discovery, and use) Streaming of objects Design process and tools for OERs Licensing and rights encoding Resource Description Aggregators to manage distributed resources Granularity Other Stuff

4. Tracking: Evidence of OER use, re-use, re-mix metrics: [publicity and advocacy value], use: downloads, views production: how many? when? patterns? Use of OERs; Downloading What statisitics can we capture that help influence senior managers statistics to support user advocacy tracking granularity return visits Google Analytics

5. Repositories (deposit, discovery, and use) Deposit metadata implications: what? why? how? SWORD deposit Search across multiple repositories/ federated search Resource search interface Discovery of repositories Gatekeeping: do OER systems have any barriers to access?

6. Streaming of objects Where do the large files sit and where are they held? local, cloud, repository?, Bandwidth management Bulk download

8. Embedding CC licences in object

9. Intrallect report on encoding

11. Resource Description (Cont.) identifiers for people Metadata quality relating materials to JACS codes Metadata for identifing derivative works- attribution Searching text within resources Google discovery SEO ensuring there's appropriate text

12. Aggregators to manage distributed resources metadata migration to Jorum metadata aggregation Resource aggregation ITunes iTunesU Itunes U API Publishing from wordpress to iTunes Batch upload Flickr and Slideshare apis batch upload to Jorum and metadata handling

13. Aggregators to manage distributed resources (Cont.) OER broadcasting ways of promoting content: social networks, tagging, web2.0 delivery platforms RSS out

14. Granularity enable decomposition of resources to support varied use/ re-use do technical choices restrict reuse? atomisation of resources and corresponding representaiton in RSS feeds Content packaging Portability of content Does the OER make sense when downloaded by end user how do we represent interdepencies in resources?

15. Other Stuff Searching on Maths expressions Loosely coupled services Personalisation Take down processes? IMS QTI development Sustainability Systems/ database interoperabilty