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Open Sustainability in Education Resource (OSIER)

The OSIER project (Open Sustainability in Education Resource) is concerned with the open sharing of resources for the teaching of sustainable development and global citizenship. It forms part of the second round of the HEFCE-funded UK OER programme, administered jointly by the Higher Education Academy and the Joint Information Systems Committee.

Standards less

Standard Comments
XHTML
CSS
IEEE_LOM
Used by Escalate centre; use for OER under consideration
RLLOMAP
Used by Escalate centre; use for OER under consideration
MP3
audio commentary on resources
Diigo
RSS
likely to be basis of JorumOpen deposit
OAI-PMH
Simple_Dublin_Core

Technologies less

Slideshare
YouTube
as yet no video resources, if none emerge youtube will be used for case studies (as a minimum)
Delicious
ePrints
initially hosted service from ECS Southampton; will look at edshare

Comments:

Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 11:16:21
For textual documents will be embedding licences in document, adding license slide to ppts etc.
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 11:13:30
The project is considering options for notification services for academics to be able to follow up comments on and use of resources
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 11:08:50
Resources are mostly textual materials and ppt; there is some ongoing work with managing rights issues for 3rd party materials
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 11:03:25
Project bid: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/ourwork/oer/RELpESCALATE_WEB.pdf
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 10:55:22
Tracking: will be talking to ePrints about this and exploring way to work this up and create case studies
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 10:53:25
The RSS feed for JO will also enable registration with other discovery services - [CETIS are putting together a list]
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 10:52:25
JorumOpen deposit: ePrints should support JO RSS deposit
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 10:46:39
"EPrints will host this web site on their server for three years and assist ESCalate in moving it to their server subsequently where it will be hosted for the life of the Subject Centre." this is something that will need to be considered once more details are known- revised plan?
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 10:45:21
Using Creative Commons License: as "an open license permitting ‘global reuse and repurposing’ likely Sharealike ‘Attribution-Non-Commercial’" as default - but may need some more restrictive licenses for some of the third party content
Comment:
Posted by johnr at 2010-12-06 10:45:16
Teacher Education Network on Sustainable Development at London South Bank and Global Development Centre at St Mary's college Belfast - both wider networks

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homepage Project Homepage
jisc-page Jisc-Page

Recent activity

People:

Person Programme-Manager: David Kernohan
Person Programme-Manager: Joanne Masterson (HEA)
Person Maintainer: Jocelyn Wishart