open educational resources - oer
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Slides of my keynote at the TICET Conference in TunisTRANSCRIPT
Dr. Jad [email protected]
www.eummena.org
International Learning Object Repositories
8 May 2012 – Tunis, Tunisia
Open Educational Resources (OER)
LTSC LOMTwitter: @najjar
Outline
• Introduction of organizations–Open Educational Resources (Learning
Objects) repositories
• Outcome-based learning• Cooperation opportunities
Share and Reuse of Open Educational Resources
Learners (seekers)
Educational resource example
Describe (index)
Find to reuse (reuse)
Teacher (creator)
Teachers (seekers)
Find to learn
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Educational Resources
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[Hodgins, 2002]
- Mona Lisa Picture- Document - Chapter, Lesson on the painting or the painter (Da Vinci)- 4 year curriculum on art
‘any digital resource that can be reused to support learning’ [Wiley, 2000]
Metadata
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• Descriptive data • “data about data”!!• Purpose
– Describes a resource– For discovery and identification
• Includes elements like – title, description, author, keywords
Metadata & Educational Resources
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- IEEE LTSC IEEE LTSC LOMLOM
Example taken from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/ceri/01ceri.html
alliance with • Global Learning Objects Brokering Exchange
(GLOBE) Alliance• contributing towards the development of a global
learning infrastructure that can be accessible from all
• one-stop-shop for learning resource broker organizations, each of them managing and/or federating one or more learning object repositories
www.globe-info.org
GLOBE is powered by ARIADNE• metadata infrastructure of ARIADNE used to support
federated search in allied GLOBE repositories
ProviderBroker
User
Brokering Metadata
Author OUJapan
GLOBE(Broker)
ProviderBrokerARIADNE UserUser
UserAuthor UserUser
MetadataGathering
MetadataExposure
MetadataExposure
Technologies
• GLOBE uses the ARIADNE infrastructure
• About 100 partners providing more than 200 collections
• About 20 different validation schemes• Harvesting more than 2,000,000
metadata but not all are selected
Technologies (2)
• Metadata Gathering and Exposure– Registering Collections– Harvesting through OAI-PMH: Open Archive Initiative –
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting• Get copy of metadata localy
– Federated Search through SQI: Simple Query Interface• Send quesries to remote repositories
– Validation– Transformation– Indexing
• Exposure through the GLOBE portal
Open Educational Resources (OER)• In the last decade, the challenge was to
– Put open educational resources (OERs) in online repositories
• Connecting the repositories worldwide
• Limited OER initiatives in the Arab World– No dedicated financial support in form of research projects– Copyrights issues– Low availability of Arabic content in existing international
repositories
• Opportunities?
Eummena
• Not-for-profit association established to advance learning technologies and foster Share and Reuse of Learning Resources
• Create standards-based applications that allow retrieval and publication of open educational resources
• Support Globe and Ariadne in covering the Arab region– Use of Globe/Ariadne technologies– Contribute the Arabic experience, technology and content to
Globe– We need you…
www.eummena.org
OER & LMS
• Offer OERs in the living cloud of teachers and learners (learning management systems (LMS), social learning networks)– Moodle, Sakai, Elgg, etc..
• All-in-house features, just blend it in• Adapt applications for culture• Encourage connecting to global OER
repositories
LMS OER widgets
• Finding and sharing OER Ariadne/Globe Moodle 2.0 search widget
o Search and share OERs from within Moodleo Track user activities for improving recommendations and
personalization
• Publishing OER into repositories Ariadne/Globe Moodle automatic metadata
generator moduleoBuilding on Ariadne Samgi frameworkoContext and usage (attention) metadata is captured
Live Demo1) Moodle Globe Search widget
2) Generation of metadata and indexation of learning objects into an educational repository
Link to Ariadne search widget demo
Ariadne Moodle 2.0 search widget
Ariadne Moodle 2.0 search widgetOER Detail
Open Discovery Space• CIP PSP funded initiative aiming to deploy a pan-
European open eLearning content infrastructure 14 M Euro
Research Challenges and Opportunities
• Improve recommendation services of open educational resources– Usage metadata, context, etc.
• Smart generation of metadata conformant to standards
• Personalization, integration and usable interfaces
www.eummena.org
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Open ICOPER Content Space
Metadata for Learning Outcomes
• Describes the characteristics of a learning outcomes• Enable storage, referencing, sharing Learning outcomes data
Explain characteristics of
human-centered design
methods
knowledge
ICOPER LOD
APP
IEEE RCD
CEN WSLT InLOC project
Metadata for Learning Opportunities (MLO)• Describe an opportunity a learner can follow• Enables publishing metadata across universities/countries
ICOPER MLO
APP
Metadata for Personal Achievements• Represent information on achieved/required/desired learning outcomes of a learner. Also teachers (taught
outcomes)• Share data with LMSs, recruitment systems, social applications
ICOPER MLO
APP
ICOPER PALO
Import Outcome-based Learning Design
http://develix.iml.umu.se/moodle/
Learning and tracking of achievements…….
View achieved learning outcomes and recommendations of content and peers
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Potential cooperation opportunities
• Arab partners join network of Eummena and Globe– Use of technical framework– Access learning content– Publish content (connect your university
repository)
• Joint research projects– International/EU/USA– Anything else?
