This presentation looks at how to methodically search for OER using the concept of Desirability. The slides highlights how the Relevance, Openness and Accessibility aspects of OER are used to locate material which are useful in course development.
This technical workshop focuses on the current issues faced by the academic community, especially in Open and Distance Learning (ODL), with respect to searching for credible, relevant and academically useful open educational resources (OER). The workshop will cover four key aspects: (1) the current OER search dilemma; (2) the concept of metadata; (3) existing search methods; and (4) useful OER search tools. Among the topics covered will be the current problem within the context of OER search, the limitations of Google and native search mechanisms, federated search, semantic search, metadata standards and some large-scale solutions to the OER search dilemma. The last part of the workshop will introduce the OERScout search framework which uses text mining techniques and faceted search to recommend Desirable OER for teaching and learning.
OERScout Technology Framework: A Novel Approach to Open Educational Resources...Ishan Abeywardena, Ph.D.
This technical seminar explains how OERScout uses text mining techniques to autonomously mine domain specific metadata for search purposes, how it utilises a faceted search approach to zero-in on resources and how it incorporates the desirability framework to recommend useful resources for academic purposes. The seminar also gives a technical overview of OER and explores the current OER search dilemma.
Discussion outline related to Open Educational Resource Benefits and Challenges to meet Continuing Education requirements of OER online course at SBCT, Washington.
OER and OCW Use in the Basic CompositonAnne Arendt
Open Educational Resources, including OpenCourseWare, have an increasing role in education today. It also can play a role in our basic composition classrooms. This is a document given at a presentation for the TYCA-West Conference 2009.
Official report can be found at http://works.bepress.com/anne_arendt/4/
Overview of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for use in Education. Some advantages and disadvantages reviewed as well as resources to obtain or share OERs
This guest lecture focuses on providing a quick introduction on OER to PhD students in the education stream at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU). The topics covered are (i) What are OER?; (ii) What are useful OER?; (iii) OER Search; (iv) Useful OER sources; and (v) OER vs. MOOC.
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The Learning Registry: Social networking for open educational resources?Lorna Campbell
This presentation will reflect on Cetis’ involvement with the Learning Registry and JISC’s Learning Registry Node Experiment at Mimas (The JLeRN Experiment), and their application to UKOER initiatives. Initially funded by the US Departments of Education and Defense, the Learning Registry (LR) is an open source network for storing and distributing metadata and curriculum activity and social usage data about learning resources across diverse educational systems.
This technical workshop focuses on the current issues faced by the academic community, especially in Open and Distance Learning (ODL), with respect to searching for credible, relevant and academically useful open educational resources (OER). The workshop will cover four key aspects: (1) the current OER search dilemma; (2) the concept of metadata; (3) existing search methods; and (4) useful OER search tools. Among the topics covered will be the current problem within the context of OER search, the limitations of Google and native search mechanisms, federated search, semantic search, metadata standards and some large-scale solutions to the OER search dilemma. The last part of the workshop will introduce the OERScout search framework which uses text mining techniques and faceted search to recommend Desirable OER for teaching and learning.
OERScout Technology Framework: A Novel Approach to Open Educational Resources...Ishan Abeywardena, Ph.D.
This technical seminar explains how OERScout uses text mining techniques to autonomously mine domain specific metadata for search purposes, how it utilises a faceted search approach to zero-in on resources and how it incorporates the desirability framework to recommend useful resources for academic purposes. The seminar also gives a technical overview of OER and explores the current OER search dilemma.
Discussion outline related to Open Educational Resource Benefits and Challenges to meet Continuing Education requirements of OER online course at SBCT, Washington.
OER and OCW Use in the Basic CompositonAnne Arendt
Open Educational Resources, including OpenCourseWare, have an increasing role in education today. It also can play a role in our basic composition classrooms. This is a document given at a presentation for the TYCA-West Conference 2009.
Official report can be found at http://works.bepress.com/anne_arendt/4/
Overview of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for use in Education. Some advantages and disadvantages reviewed as well as resources to obtain or share OERs
This guest lecture focuses on providing a quick introduction on OER to PhD students in the education stream at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU). The topics covered are (i) What are OER?; (ii) What are useful OER?; (iii) OER Search; (iv) Useful OER sources; and (v) OER vs. MOOC.
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The Learning Registry: Social networking for open educational resources?Lorna Campbell
This presentation will reflect on Cetis’ involvement with the Learning Registry and JISC’s Learning Registry Node Experiment at Mimas (The JLeRN Experiment), and their application to UKOER initiatives. Initially funded by the US Departments of Education and Defense, the Learning Registry (LR) is an open source network for storing and distributing metadata and curriculum activity and social usage data about learning resources across diverse educational systems.
This presentation talks about the fundamental flaw in metadata which is its dependence on the user to competently annotate. It then introduces the OERScout technology framework which provides a way to remove the human from the metadata equation which is the weakest link.
Introduction to Open Educational Resources for New Teachers Michael Paskevicius
Slides presented to new teachers in our Bachelor of Education Program at Vancouver Island University. Provided an overview of the landscape for content creation, fair dealings, public domain, embeddable content, and Creative Commons
Open Educational Resources: Development and Challenges for IndiaRamesh C. Sharma
This presentation discusses the Indian initiatives to the development of OERs in India and the challenges therein. WikiEducator India is also discussed.
This is a Guest Lecture delivered to PhD Scholars at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan on 7th October 2015. The presentation explores the current global trends in Open Educational Resources (OER). The specific topics covered include a brief introduction to OER; defining the “O” in OER; how licensing works with the new Creative Commons 4.0 International licensing scheme; defining the usefulness of an OER for a particular teaching and learning purpose through the “Desirability” framework; and identifying the objectives of large scale OER projects through the “Focus Triangle”.
This presentation talks about the fundamental flaw in metadata which is its dependence on the user to competently annotate. It then introduces the OERScout technology framework which provides a way to remove the human from the metadata equation which is the weakest link.
Introduction to Open Educational Resources for New Teachers Michael Paskevicius
Slides presented to new teachers in our Bachelor of Education Program at Vancouver Island University. Provided an overview of the landscape for content creation, fair dealings, public domain, embeddable content, and Creative Commons
Open Educational Resources: Development and Challenges for IndiaRamesh C. Sharma
This presentation discusses the Indian initiatives to the development of OERs in India and the challenges therein. WikiEducator India is also discussed.
This is a Guest Lecture delivered to PhD Scholars at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan on 7th October 2015. The presentation explores the current global trends in Open Educational Resources (OER). The specific topics covered include a brief introduction to OER; defining the “O” in OER; how licensing works with the new Creative Commons 4.0 International licensing scheme; defining the usefulness of an OER for a particular teaching and learning purpose through the “Desirability” framework; and identifying the objectives of large scale OER projects through the “Focus Triangle”.
This is a guest lecture on the road map of how to move from OER to an Open Culture delivered to the 2016 PhD batch of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan
This presentation discusses how to deliver a flipped classroom lecture and looks at how this ‘ideal’ concept could be practically implemented in a University setting.
Discusses the faboodle application which acts as the bridge between moodle learning managements system and facebook. faboodle allows students to interact on moodle 1.8 LMS through facebook. The presentation also discusses the rationale for using facebook over moodle LMS.
In recent years, the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has achieved considerable success within the academic community with respect to advocacy of the concept. As a result, many organisations such as the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), UNESCO and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), in partnership with academic institutions, have produced large volumes of OER. However, due to the disconnected nature and the constant expansion of volume, many repositories hosting these resources are less frequented or completely ignored by OER users. i.e. only the more popular OER repositories such as Connexions and WikiEducator are frequent stops in the search for academically useful resources. This limitation, in turn, reduces the access to high quality resources hidden away in isolated repositories hosted by lesser known sources. Furthermore, the time and labour required to trawl these repositories with a view of identifying the most suitable OER is tantamount to creating ones’ own material from scratch. As a solution to these issues, this paper discusses how the OERScout technology framework uses a “faceted search” approach to locate the most desirable OER from sources spread throughout the globe. It also highlights how focused searching can greatly improve access to OER readily useable in teaching and learning.
The International Academic Relations Division at The Open University of Sri Lanka was established in October of 2013. At that point, the University had recognized the importance of establishing collaborative relationships to increase its international standing, build its global profile, increase the recognition of its academic offerings and conduct high impact research. This vision also aligns with the Government of Sri Lanka’s position for strengthening the education sector of the country through international collaboration. One of the latest initiatives by the IRD is the “Distinguished Lecture Series” which is designed to foster rich academic discourse among Sri Lankan academics. The lecture series further intends to build capacities among Sri Lankan academics in good academic practices; technology-assisted teaching; sound research methodologies; and high impact publications.
This is a keynote address delivered at the Committee for Vice Chancellors and Directors (CVCD) conference 2015 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The presentation covers the evolution of Distance Education (DE) from correspondence to modern day online; redefining the “D” in DE to “Digital”; flipping the classroom to teach digital natives in a connected world; using MOOC to increase flexibility and access to Higher Education in Sri Lanka; how to use OER with MOOC; and the OERu model to maximize equity in a country desperate to create a knowledge society.
Print2Screen Mobile App: Embedding Multimedia in Printed ODL Course MaterialsIshan Abeywardena, Ph.D.
The world is rapidly moving towards a digital culture where teaching and learning is migrated to cyberspace from a conventional brick and mortar classroom. Given that eLearning and mobile learning are attractive propositions for countries with robust technological infrastructure, the global south is still struggling to mainstream digital methods of delivering education due to various technological and financial inhibitors. This has spelled a potential slow death for printed material in developing countries where the medium is predominantly used for delivering education in schools, conventional universities, vocational training institutions and open universities. However, with the rise of OER and multimedia such as YouTube videos, many of these academic institutions are becoming mindful of the richness they bring into the teaching and learning process. Given that multimedia resources cannot be directly integrated into printed material, the only available alternative is to print hyperlinks which teachers and learners can manually type into a web browser. This method becomes ridiculously ineffective as the length of the URL increases. To address this limitation with a special focus on print based ODL course materials, the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), which is a regional center of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), developed an innovative solution to seamlessly integrate multimedia into printed material using Quick Response Codes (QR codes) or 2D barcodes and an Android mobile application named “Print2Screen”. This paper highlights the rationale behind Print2Screen, the development process, how the solution is implemented in a real world scenario and the benefits it will bring to the ODL community especially in rural and developing parts of the world where stable access to technology is still a costly commodity.
National Online Distance Education Service (NODES) - Proposed Action Plan 2015Ishan Abeywardena, Ph.D.
This is a proposed action plan for the National Online Distance Education Service (NODES) under the new management at the Open University of Sri Lanka. The proposed plan highlights several ICT projects of National scale which can be implemented using the NODES infrastructure.
Presentation by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner at the iMoot 2014 (International Moodle Moot) on 16 and 17 May 2014.
Recording available at http://youtu.be/TAbHGOA2JEM
This presentation discusses the current dilemma with respect to Open Educational Resources (OER) search. It introduces existing OER search methodologies and highlights their weaknesses. The Desirability framework for parametrically measuring the usefulness of an OER is also discussed. The desirability framework uses the D-index to measure the openness, accessibility and relevance of an OER. OERScout, a text mining based faceted search engine is introduced for improved OER search. It uses autonomously identified domain specific keywords, the D-index and faceted search to allow focused OER search.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are fast gaining traction amongst the academic community as a viable means of increasing access and equity in education. The concept of OER is of especial significance to the marginalised communities in the Global South where distance education is prominent due to the inability of conventional brick and mortar institutions to cope with the growing demand. However, the wider adoption of OER by academics in the Global South has been inhibited due to various socio, economic and technological reasons. One of the major technological inhibitors is the current inability to search for OER which are academically useful and are of an acceptable academic standard. Many technological initiatives have been proposed over the recent past to provide potential solutions to this issue. Among these are OER curartion standards such as GLOBE, federated search, social semantic search and search engines such as DiscoverEd, OCW Finder, Pearson’s Project Blue Sky. The research discussed in this paper is carried out in the form of literature review and informal interviews with experts. The objective of the study is to document the extent of the OER search issues contributing to the slow uptake of the concept of OER. This review paper discusses the current OER search dilemma and the impact of some of the key initiatives which propose potential solutions.
Openess: Rethinking the Role of the University in the Internet Era@cristobalcobo
This presentation explores the implications of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education.
OER definition: "…digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students, and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning, and research. OER includes learning content, software tools to develop, use, and distribute content, and implementation resources such as open licences." (OECD, 2007)
AI Based Search Engine for Locating Desirable Open Educational ResourcesIshan Abeywardena, Ph.D.
Location of Desirable Open Educational Resources in the Commonwealth Connect Portal Directory of Open Educational Resources (DOER) using the OERScout Artificial Intelligence Based Search Engine.
What can Open Access offer me as a teacher?: A guide to Open Access and to ed...Stian Håklev
Presentation given with Clare Brett as part of Master of Teachers Tech Day at OISE, Oct 20 2010.
Abstract: Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER's) are terms being increasingly used in educational circles. There are a lot of free, well-designed and interesting curriculum resources out there for the discerning teacher to find and use in their classroom. This workshop will provide a tour of some of the key locations for finding such resources for k-12 teachers, as well as introducing you to the ideas behind Open Access in general, and a discussion of interesting new directions for lifelong professional development, such as the Peer-to-Peer university. The workshop will consist of introducing you to the terms and resources of Open Access as well as small group discussions on strategies and issues about using these resources in your classroom. This will be an interactive session, where your questions are welcome and will guide the kinds of materials we discuss.
Open Educational Resources:Strategies to enhance Networking and Collaborative...Ramesh C. Sharma
what are open educational resources, OER initiatives in Asian countries and in India. How WikiEducator can be used to create OERs, WikiEducator India chapter, WikiEducator UPE winners
An Expert Survey on the Barriers and Enablers of Open Educational PracticeseLearning Papers
Author: Stefanie Panke
This paper is a report on the findings of a literature review and an expert survey conducted in December 2010 with a self-selected panel. A total of 19 participants were recruited through the UNESCO OER mailing list and the Educational Technology and Change Journal.
Open Educational Resources and Repositories: Discussion Breakout SessionSarah Currier
These slides accompanied a breakout discussion session on open educational resources and repositories at the 2009 Intrallect Conference, 25-26 March 2009.
Open educational resources: What are they and where do i find them?Amy Castillo
Presented at the Excellence in Teaching 2017 conference on February 10, 2017. Abstract: Have you ever considered using an open textbook in your class? How about open courses, quizzes, lab manuals, or other course materials? Open Educational Resources (OERs) are free and free to reuse resources or course materials that you can repurpose in your classes, including both written and multimedia content. There are OERs available for every subject matter and academic level. Tarleton librarians, Margie Maxfield Huth (Systems Librarian) and Amy Castillo (Periodicals & Electronic Resources Librarian) will discuss what OERs are, and how they can be used in the classroom. They will also show resources for identifying OERs that might be appropriate for use in your classes.
Trends and issues in open educational resources and massive open online coursesAva Chen
The Internet revolution has facilitated the concept of openness now more than ever. A number of current technologies support the paradigm of modern education in terms of creation, communication, and collaboration. Various open educational learning resources, tools, and pedagogical approaches are used in teaching and learning. Open educational resources (OERs) is one of examples that represent a global phenomenon in an innovation approach that promote unrestricted access as a possible solution for bridging the knowledge divide in higher education. OERs open up opportunities to create, share, and facilitate learning and ethical practice by creating, using, and managing by offering a wider array of educational resources among a greater diversity of global learners. Its trends and movements have become more prominent as not only a phenomenon but as a way of improving the quality of education. OERs alone are not sustainable on their own dimension. It has to combine concepts from different inter-disciplinary areas such as education for sustainable development and business perspectives. Therefore, this seminar focuses on the discussion of current trends, issues, and example of current global practices of OERs and MOOCs.
Creating Sustainable Communities in Open Data Resources: The eagle-i and VIVO...Robert H. McDonald
This is the slidedeck for my ACRL 2015 TechConnect Presentation with Nicole Vasilevsky (OHSU). For more on the program see - <a>http://bit.ly/1xcQbCr</a>.
OER and Future Research Questions - Guest Lecture: Allama Iqbal Open Universi...Ishan Abeywardena, Ph.D.
This lecture was delivered to the new cohort of PhD students at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Pakistan. The focus of the lecture was to inspire them in new directions of research in the field of Open Educational Resources based on the outputs of the 2nd World OER Congress and the Ljubljana OER Action Plan.
The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has gained significant momentum recently as a global effort culminating in the 2012 Paris OER declaration. However, the purist definition of OER has blurred since then morphing into Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Even though OER are a significant part of the MOOC movement, it might not be a defining one. However, this has not yet been fully verified with respect to the opinion of the general public who are the main stakeholders of both the movements. To answer this question, this paper attempts to explore the public opinion and perceptions regarding OER, MOOC and their complementary roles. A text mining approach is used to analyse raw Twitter data in the domains of OER and MOOC within a timespan of 12 months. Sentiment analysis is applied to the data to understand how public perceptions have changed during this time period. The major contribution of my paper is a chronological view of public opinion on OER and MOOC post Paris OER declaration.
Educational institutions are attracted towards use of ICT that provides them with more flexibility and options to reach the students in various ways. Judicious mix of different tools and strategies with use of ICT can enhance the learning experiences of the students. ICT has the potential to transform the way teaching and learning happens in the classroom setting. So much is known about use of ICT in education. However, there is no study available in the context of Commonwealth Asian countries on eLearning. How is eLearning doing and whether the institutions, teachers and students are really interested in and beneficiary of eLearning? How are different activities pertaining to eLearning being managed by different institutions? What are the challenges and opportunities faced by institutions for effective implementation of eLearning across disciplines and subjects? To find answers to all such questions, a systematic study was undertaken to track the growth and development of eLearning in Commonwealth Asian countries i.e. Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore and Sri Lanka.
Report available at http://cemca.org.in/publicationhome/elearning-commonwealth-asia-2013-sk-pulist
A crash course on open educational resources which covers the 4 'R's of Openness, access based on ALMS analysis, sustainability models and copyright. It further discusses the current state of OER in Asia. The last part provides a case study for reuse of OER in ODL courses.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
OER search - how to search and locate relevant material
1. OER Search
How to Search and Locate
Relevant Material
Pre-Symposium Workshop on
OER Integration and Use
in Course Development
2nd Regional Symposium on OER
Penang, Malaysia
23rd June 2014
2. Ishan Abeywardena
MSc, MSc (Brunel), BSc (Bangalore), MIEEE, MBCS, MIET, MTA
Deputy Dean and Senior Lecturer
School of Science and Technology
Wawasan Open University
Penang, Malaysia
3. Outline
• What are OER?
• What are useful
OER?
• OER Search
• Useful OER Sources
5. “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.
6. “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)
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
14. 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
20. 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
22. Content repositories
Portal repositories
Content and portal repositories
McGreal, R. (2010). Open Educational Resource Repositories: An Analysis. Proceedings: The 3rd Annual Forum on e-Learning
Excellence, 1-3 February 2010, Dubai, UAE.
Curation
23.
24. So…how do I find the material I need for my teaching?
28. 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
32. 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
33. DCMI
the DCMI resource model
Source: http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/ (29/08/2013)
37. 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”.
54. Questions?
I will also be happy to answer your queries if you
e-mail me via ishansa@wou.edu.my
Thanks!
55. About…
Ishan Abeywardena
Deputy 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.html
Professional Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ishansa
Research Profile: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ishan_Abeywardena/
Tech Blog: http://www.ishantalks.com
E-mail: ishansa@wou.edu.my