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OSTRICH: OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs

The OSTRICH project, led by the University of Leicester, will transfer and cascade, in usable formats, the key outcomes of Leicester’s institutional OER pilot project OTTER to the universities of...

	100% complete Project Completed Funding period:September 2010 to August 2011 Source:		Organisations: University of Bath University of Derby University of Leicester
	Tags: e-Learning programme Learning & Teaching Practice Learning Resources Open educational resources programme phase 2

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Builds on	Comments
Open, transferable & technology-enabled educational resources (OTTER)	most important link
WOLF
DUCKLING

See also	Comments
Transforming Interprofessional Groups through Educational Resources (TIGER)
Cascading Social Science Open Educational Resources	differences in method but sharing practice
OERCaFE: OER Cascade to FE

Standards

Standard	Comments
Dublin_Core
RSS	bulk upload to Jorum
OAI-ORE	under consideration; migration support useful
OAI-PMH	under consideration

Technologies

Drupal	main metadata repository
Slideshare
Panopto	lecture capture software similar to echo360
Xerte

Comments:

Posted by philb at 2011-12-13 11:33:29

Ostrich at Bath used Xerte, see http://ostrich.bath.ac.uk/search/node/xerte

Posted by johnr at 2011-08-23 15:40:17

Bath OER content types: text (doc,rtf,pdf), learning designs, templates, case studies; links; presnentations, ppt and slideshare. websites and lecture capture.

Posted by johnr at 2011-07-28 09:16:35

Ostrich at Bath:Metadata guidelines doc: http://www.bath.ac.uk/lmf/download/49889

Posted by johnr at 2011-02-15 15:21:01

OER types (can be anything) expected: video capture of lectures.

Posted by johnr at 2011-02-15 14:57:22

Central database can export data into any given standard(s); particular standards not yet decided

Posted by johnr at 2011-02-15 14:54:38

content can be anywhere on the web

Posted by johnr at 2011-02-15 14:52:36

Metadata repository - resources distributed across multiple sites and services. provides a more sustainable and scalable approach (especially with respect to video)

Posted by johnr at 2011-02-15 14:15:39

JorumOpen upload - looking at RSS for bulk (metadata) deposit

Posted by johnr at 2011-02-15 14:11:01

OER files sit outside in spaces belonging to each of the institutions (or external sites) and then the OER records in the 'repository (built in Drupal) will link out the these locations - see diagram: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/oer/2010/11/01/the-ostrich-oer-d-repository/

Posted by johnr at 2011-02-15 13:43:40

Controlled vocabularies - JACS top level

Posted by johnr at 2011-02-15 13:42:26

Clarify license issue with JorumOpen - statement at briefing day - follow up

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-19 13:33:20

Bath OER will probably also release packaged moodle courses as zipped file.

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-19 13:30:17

at this point Ostrich project repository is referatory/ index/ catalogue not content store, all content is hosted elsewhere

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-14 15:39:54

builds on SPIDER project at Leicester http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/spider [note: not JISC-funded SPIDER project]

Posted by johnr at 2011-01-14 14:46:32

project plan: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/oer2/OSTRICH_Project_Plan.pdf

Posted by johnr at 2010-12-03 11:38:51

key considerations: data portability and robust underlying data structure

Posted by johnr at 2010-12-03 11:18:34

Darby has entered into hosting agreement with Bath as part of the project - beyond the end of project the agreement is likely to be read access only (not upload new oers) [will be examining sustainability and cost questions]

Posted by johnr at 2010-12-03 11:14:56

"We planned a single repository for OSTRICH, based at Bath, in addition to the JorumOpen version of all OERs. The storage of media locally is appropriate, so for example if Derby wants to (or Bath requires Derby to) host their own video files that the OERs use, that's fine. The OERs can be based in the normal repository at Bath, linking out to the relevant videos hosted on a Derby server."

Posted by johnr at 2010-12-03 11:14:42

Resilience question: links or items in JO?

Posted by johnr at 2010-12-02 15:25:21

"OSTRICH’s own repository" - platform? also role of subject centre repositories?

Posted by johnr at 2010-12-01 16:27:43

Also builds on http://www.impala.ac.uk/