[Oer-community] Maximum Impact

Mary Lou Forward mlforward at ocwconsortium.org
Mon Oct 18 16:41:10 MDT 2010


The plan is to have subjects be much more specific to enable more targeted
searching and browsing.  For example, humanities would include various
disciplines, such as history, which would further be broken down into
geographic areas, time periods, etc.  The aim is to have a comprehensive
enough catalog/index that the categories would have meaningful differences
to enable both general and specific searches (eg. all humanities would have
the humanities tag, but History of the Zanzibar Revolution would have
specific tags that would easily distinguish it from Philosophers of the 20th
Century).

Finding the right level of specificity and the categories that will be valid
across different educational systems is an important task of the working
group.  The idea is to make this useful and intuitive, providing a
framework, but allowing additional tags to be added by the author/producer.
  We welcome all input.

Thanks,
Mary Lou


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Steve Foerster <steve at hiresteve.com> wrote:

> Mary Lou wrote:
>
> > First, we are planning to create a global course catalog
> > of sorts, which will allow all OER housed in different
> > collections around the world to be tagged with standard
> > descriptors.
>
> How will this compare to the catalog at OER Commons?
>
> http://www.oercommons.org/oer
>
> Thanks,
>
> -=Steve=-
>
>
> --
> Stephen H. Foerster
> http://hiresteve.com
> http://hiresteve.com/blog
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>
>


-- 
Mary Lou Forward
OpenCourseWare Consortium
www.ocwconsortium.org
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