[Oer-community] OER Mapping

[Phil Barker]

Hello Fred, I don't know if Greg managed to answer this, but I can give 
an answer from the point of view of someone with a background in UK 
Higher Education who is involved in the technical working group of LRMI.

Simply put, no, LRMI is not just targeted at K-12. Yes, it will cover 
higher ed and other non-US, non-school contexts, at least in part. Most 
of the properties are neutral with respect to educational context. There 
is some discussion on the LRMI list about its application to MIT's 
OpenCourseWare. I think it is fair to say that special consideration was 
given to addressing some high-priority use cases from US K-12 education 
(alignment to common core curriculum standards), but not to the 
exclusion of other contexts. I hope that the solution found for those 
use cases will be transferable to similar use cases in other contexts. 
For example, if a professional body mandates certain competencies before 
providing an individual with accreditation to work (e.g. as a lawyer, 
engineer or medic in the UK) then learning materials which align to 
teaching or assessing those competencies can be marked up in the same 
way as materials that align to some point in the common core curriculum. 
Of course a lot of Higher Education doesn't work that way, and it was 
probably this that Michael had in mind when answering the question.

Phil

[cross posting from OER-Community to LRMI lists in case anyone from LRMI 
wants to contradict me]

On 15/11/12 04:07, Fred M Beshears wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I was watching the video with Michael Jay describing LRMI
> (http://www.lrmi.net), which is posted on the home page for the
> initiatve.
>
>   (BTW: I know Michael from my days at Berkeley's Instructional
> Technology Program.)
>
> During the Q&A he was asked if LRMI was for higher education and he
> said: "no, that they've looked at higher ed and there's a different
> set of search use cases in high ed." or words to that effect.
>
> So, is LRMI just targeted at K-12 or is it intended for higher ed as well?
>
> Best,
> Fred M Beshears
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at grossmeier.net> wrote:
>

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