[Oer-community] OER Mapping

[Stuart Sutton]

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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker at hw.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> 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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-- 
Stuart A. Sutton,
CEO and Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Associate Professor Emeritus, The Information School
University of Washington
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