Problem OER content is widely distributed over many sites and catalogues are generally teacher centric. Moreover, lots of the OER catalogues seem to be fairly teacher orientated. A learner-centric OER space I was thinking of providing something slightly more learner centric. Kids would be sent to a URL, which would have content displayed nicely for them. They could annotate it, highlight things or bookmark pages. The system would world by indexing lots of content from the structured data that exists in many OER catalogues and other places such as Project Gutenberg. It would then focus on delivering content in a highly-readable, attractive manner. There would be also useful CSS for print and mobile devices. Some other possibilities, to tie it into the classroom/learning process:
www.opentextbook.org could become a place that syndicates lots of content in all the repositories and catalogues that already exist. Examples http://www.20thingsilearned.com/ is a great example of displaying ebook content in the browser, plus its code is open source code. One problem is that it is very HTML5-centric, meaning that it probably wont display very well on old browsers on old machines. behind submitted 03 Jun '11, 00:25 tim mcnamara |
Some sources of content/inspiration Lists of sources of OER content
Sources of well catalogued OER content
Major repositories Related Projects
solved 03 Jun '11, 06:01 tim mcnamara |
Discussion threads
solved 03 Jun '11, 06:08 tim mcnamara |
Creative Commons is supporting a metadata initiative for learning resources https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27603
Ahh... seems to already exist (http://openlibrary.org/), albeit without the teacher/learner specific features.