ocwc global 2013 improving discoverability of your content

Improving discoverability of course content

Jure CuhalevOpenCourseWare Consortium

Google Panda and Penguin updates to index

Prioritizing: original,useful, resourceful and

fresh content

Provide indicators of updates to courses

Social integration

Meta authorship

Visual style/speed

• Social sharing with improved meta-data

Google authorship (and better meta-data)rel=author

• Publish as much data in RSS

• Extended RSS meta-data, full course content, linked multi-media

• Canonical Archive link with suggested back-link (for SEO)

• Improves search and enables scientific research

• Pagination (ability to retrieve all courses)

Syndication

Syndication - next level

• Upload your meta-data to LRMI

• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

In short: apply at least the things that you applied to your blog

Image credits

• Panda - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/304626330/

• Penguins - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerhard3/437470058/

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