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Technical aspects - practical resources and guides
Every UKOER project had a page on the CETIS Project directory which acts as a useful summary of technical issues and related standards relevant to each project. See also Technology for Open Educational Resources - Into The Wild. Reflections on three years of the UK OER Programmes Edited by Amber Thomas, Lorna M. Campbell, Phil Barker and Martin Hawksey. October 2012
Technical issues
Hosting
Metadata and resource description
Aggregation
Discoverability
Accessibility
Producing materials
- Copying material from Blackboard using bFree (OpenStaffs Project, Staffordshire University)
- Copying material from Blackboard and preparing it for JorumOpen (OpenStaffs Project, Staffordshire University)
- OER Creation Flowchart (Open Educational Resources (ADM-OER) Project)
- Potentially greater visibility provided by third party public solutions: Chemistry FM YouTube videos (Chemistry FM Project)
- Creating and formatting documents for e-readers using ePub: a comprehensive guide on how to create and edit existing documents into ePub files for use on e-readers and other devices. (OTTER Project, University of Leicester)
- Screencast tutorials on producing podcasts - (OpenSpires Project, University of Oxford)
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Pencils and Pixels: Publishing OERs using WordPress (and EPrints) - (Chemistry FM Project, University of Lincoln)
- Java Digital Breadboard Simulator: A simulator for an educational electronics environment - (JBB Project)
- Panopto Lecture Capture guide and guidance on pedagogy for lecture capture (OSTRICH Project)
- Guidance on open textbooks (C-SAP CACSADE Project)
- Web2.0 tools (C-SAP CACSADE Project)
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Triton Wordpress code (Triton Project)
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Blog post on integration of dynamic collection with Wordpress (Triton Project)
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Research looking at whether multimedia resources are effective educational tools (SCOOTER Project)
- SPACE Functional Specification (SPACE Project)
- SPACE Resource design brief (SPACE Project)
- SPACE testing brief (SPACE Project)
- Testing scenarios and survey (SPACE Project)
- OpenLabyrinth source code (PORSCHE Project)
- Toolkit interoperability implementation (PORSCHE Project)
- OER bookmarking tool - Contribution to CETIS Technical Miniproject (PORSCHE Project)
- Jorum API wiki - Contribution to sector API needs wiki (PORSCHE Project)
- PowerPoint: ‘Open Educational Resources- a short guide’ (Learning form WOeRK Project)
- When developing OER it is recommended that you include information about your OER on the back page of the resource. Back page templates for some common file formats are available here:
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3D simulation model Product development process model (SPACE Project)
- OSIER project - resource guidelines This resource contain documents that set out requirements and standards for resources submitted to the OSIER repository. They cover copyright, licensing and usability. The short checklist summarises the requirements as a series of questions, whilst the longer document includes more detail and a 'traffic light' classification. Both documents are available as word processor files (.doc) and PDF. (OSIER Project)
- ORBEE Learning Design - Creating OER A detailed learning design guide for academics producing learning materials which helps them to develop the materials in a way that is attractive, engaging and easy to use for web learners.
- Improved understanding for academics providing learning materials of the importance of organisation, structure, clarity of expression and variety of media used to present them
- Ebooks mini reports
- Hand-out with top tips for producing podcasts: (SESAME Project)
- Slides and Blackboard Collaborate recording of a technical workshop webinar on 22/01/13 with reference to working with Elsevier Publishers (PublishOER Project)
Models and workflows