[Oer-community] OER Mapping

Peter Pinch pdpinch at mit.edu
Mon Nov 19 07:52:35 MST 2012


We are launching a redesign of MIT OpenCourseWare in a few weeks, and the
new site will have LRMI metadata.


I have to agree with Phil that "special consideration was given to... use
cases from US K-12 education," but I've still found enough of relevance in
LRMI to apply it to MIT OCW. And I have more plans for after the redesign
launches. 

Keep in mind, LRMI is collaborating with schema.org, a much larger effort
to standardize semantic metadata on web pages. If you are publishing
structured content on the web, schema.org deserves your attention. And
LRMI is driving the conversation around educational objects in schema.org.

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Peter Pinch
Production Manager, MIT OpenCourseWare
pdpinch at mit.edu
http://ocw.mit.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Barker <phil.barker at hw.ac.uk>
Reply-To: "lrmi at googlegroups.com" <lrmi at googlegroups.com>
Date: Monday, November 19, 2012 5:16 AM
To: "oer-community at athabascau.ca" <oer-community at athabascau.ca>,
"lrmi at googlegroups.com" <lrmi at googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER Mapping

>
>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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>
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