[Oer-community] Maximum Impact

[Mary Lou Forward]

Thanks, Rory.

That's one of the major issues to be decided, and why we're trying to ensure
that this is an international group effort so we can have wide input.  We
may start with UNESCO's International Standard Classification for Education;
at this point we're gathering information from a lot of different
classification systems and pulling together advisory and working groups.
Ultimately, we need some kind of classification framework that can be easily
adopted to improve discoverability and use of OER.  Without metadata
standards, we're unlikely to get to the level of searchability that we need
to realize the desired impact of OER on teaching and learning.  The movement
is still young enough to try for a common system - perhaps wishful thinking,
but worthwhile to try!

Mary Lou



On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:04 PM, rory <rory at athabascau.ca> wrote:

>  Mary Lou,
> What standard are you following in implementing the metadata for  the
> catalogue? That is quite a job. We could never get three Canadian librarians
> to agree, never mind international ones. Should it be Library of Congress or
> Dewey, or ???
> All the best.
> Rory
>
>
> On 10-10-18 4:41 PM, Mary Lou Forward wrote:
>
> 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=-
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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