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CORE-Materials

CORE-Materials: Collaborative Open Resource Environment – for Materials

	100% complete Project Completed Funding period:April 2009 to April 2010 Source:		Organisations: Bradford College European Aluminium Association Federation of European Materials Societies Granta Design Limited Heriot-Watt University Imperial College London Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining International Council on Materials Education Materials E-Learning Technologies Queen Mary University of London Sheffield Hallam University The Open University The Welding Institute UK Centre for Materials Education University of Birmingham University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Liverpool University of Manchester University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Swansea
	Tags: e-Learning programme OER Open education resources programme UKOER

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ENGrich
See also	Comments
Open Educational Resources Pilot (OERP)
UK Centre for Bioscience OER Project

Standards

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RSS
Atom
Zip
IMS_QTI
IMS_CP
AVI
OGG
ASF
WAV
SVG
GIF
JPEG
PNG

Technologies

YouTube
PHP
MySQL
Content_Packaging
Flash
Google Analytics
Flickr
Slideshare
Scribd

Comments:

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:50:45

considering how to aggregate and manage usage data back to site using apis

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:49:23

Talat lectures have had 10000 reads since they were made available

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:48:56

lack of fileshare sites for Flash prompted development of own repository

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:45:41

Variety of CC licenses in use; currently working on Flash content to insert license into Flash; movies will probably not have an embedded licences; pdfs generated by project will have cc license encoded; images as is. license information in metadata as well.

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:41:59

Ongoing discussion about video management (streaming and download) within project (local or third party services (YouTube))

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:35:06

Resources available in a number of granularities: images and packages of images, lecture notes, demonstrations and animations (series and individual); animations covering single topics (but could be broken down further); book released at chapter level

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:27:24

Jorum deposit: planning to interact with bulk upload API (2000 records)

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:23:31

Developed classification scheme for subject domain as part of project: will be released shortly under Open license possibly in ZThes and /or SKOS

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:17:22

Project in process of considering content packaging as part of interaction with other services such as Jorum; weighing up possible benefits

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:13:23

repository; considering how to interact with PLEs : role/ source of RSS will be considered as part of this discussion

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:12:04

building own repository; repository interacts via apis with web2.0/ filesharing stes. using MySQL and PHP

Posted by Johnr at 2009-12-14 10:07:36

Builds on http://matter.org.uk/