Project Details:
Sesame
"The Sesame project is a JISC-funded initiative that will produce a rich and sustainable source of open educational resources (OER), aimed at adult learners and their tutors, but of use to all, across a broad range of subject disciplines. The resources will be made freely available for others to view, download, repurpose, and incorporate in to their own learning and teaching."
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Funding period:October 2011 to October 2012
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Organisations: University of Oxford |
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| IEEE_LOM |
considering use of
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| UK_LOM_Core |
considering use of
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| schema.org |
considering use of
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JACS3
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| Dublin_Core |
using for basic information
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Comments:
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 14:10:12
project will be liaising with OUCS to develop options for tracking beyond basic webstats/ google analytics
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 14:08:06
project tag is #oersesame
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 14:07:05
Likely to create some form of data connection with podcasts.ox.ac.uk ; will also push to iTunesU and will try to use feed-based deposit to Jorum
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 14:05:34
Drupal automatically creates a number of RSS feeds, project is considering how and what these might be configured and used
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 14:01:58
Will be using resources covered by a range of licenses and are investigating approaches to manage and display them; their content will be CC: BY NC SA
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:48:34
aiming to try to explore options for embedding licence/ attribution /title /credits in all relevant format types but balancing what can be done with sustainable requirements on resource creators
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:45:10
likely to convert any text material to pdf as well for use in podcasts.ox.ac.uk
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:43:58
Looking at formats - liaison with Great Writer's both are building on / utilising podcasts.oc.ac.uk for other sorts of content
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:42:42
using JACs 3 for subject categories alongside uncontrolled tags
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:42:06
Focus is for students who are concerned about resources - open or not; tutor and system need to know, student doesn't
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:41:15
building up subject resources, not only using resources they are creating, but also linking/ tagging other resources (open and not open)
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:39:45
Creating cross course tags
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:39:26
Primarily aiming to hold very granular objects (text - ppts, primary sources). linked to courses, creators, tutors
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:38:31
Not everything managed in Drupal is open content it may be links to other content
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:37:32
using Drupal to create entities around: resources courses and people
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-11 13:35:59
Evaluation partner tbc
Posted by johnr at 2012-01-10 15:04:28
"made available through a central Discovery point and other mainstream portals such as iTunes U, Oxford's podcasts portal and Jorum"
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