ocwc global 2013 improving discoverability of your content
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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/