Foreword
ForewordBetween 2009 and 2012 the UK Higher Education Funding Council funded a series of programmes to encourage higher education institutions in the UK to release existing educational content as Open...
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Introducing the UKOER Programme
Introducing the UK OER ProgrammeThe UK OER Programme1 was run by the UK Higher Education Academy and JISC, with funding from HEFCE, between 2009 and 2012. The Programme built on previous work...
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Defining OER
Defining OERProgramme approachThe OER Programme took a broad and inclusive approach to the definition of open educational resources. The call Briefing Paper on Open Educational Resources2 for the...
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Resource management
Resource ManagementReleasing OERs requires that processes and systems are in place to manage the lifecycle of the resources. While resource management could cover the whole life cycle from creation of...
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Licensing and attribution
Licensing and AttributionAny original creative work automatically qualifies for copyright, allowing the owner to control various forms of use. Commonly, resources are published as being "© All rights...
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SEO and discoverabilitySearch Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of resources in search engine results. Discoverability is related to search engine optimisation as...
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Tracking OERs
Tracking OERsTracking here refers to techniques to ascertain what use and reuse has been made of open educational resources by people after they have been released. The emphasis is on tracking what has...
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Paradata - activity data about learning resources
Paradata - activity data for learning resourcesParadata is a means of recording and openly exchanging data about how, and in what context, learning resources are used.Why paradata is importantOver the...
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AccessibilityThis chapter has been contributed by Terry McAndrew of JISC TechDis1.Accessibility is about the provision of content and services in a manner most suitable to the user, no matter what...
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Conclusions Open content ecosystemsThe Technical Directions chapters presented in this book explore a wide range of technical issues relating to the release of open educational resources into the wild....
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Contributed comments and feedbackThis chapter is a compilation of comments received from the global OER community. We invited views on individual chapters or the whole book, asking: what rings true?...
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Resource description
Resource DescriptionResource description may be explained as the way in which the characteristic properties of content items and the relationships between them and other resources and entities are...
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Publishing information
Technology for Open Educational Resourcesedited by Amber Thomas, Lorna M. Campbell, Phil Barker and Martin Hawksey.Copyright © 2012 University of Bolton unless otherwise stated.This work is licensed...
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About the editors
About the editorsAmber ThomasAmber has worked in ICT in education for 13 years, working on JISC Information Strategies Initiative, Becta's National Grid for Learning, Becta's Ferl service, JISC-funded...
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AcknowledgementsThere are many people whom the editors wish to thank for help and support in writing this book and the work that lead to it; too many for us to list them all individually. However, some...
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