OER Technical Guidance

Technical choices for Open Educational Resources
As part of our support for UKOER we're documenting projects approaches and choices about issues such as description, dissemination, and deposit to Jorum. In part this summarises the pilot programmes and in part it is a step towards contextualised guidelines about relevant standards.

The details of our technical conversations with UKOER projects are being recorded through PROD details of projects use of standards are available here.

Overview of programme requirements
The Open Educational Resources programme deliberately specified very little about the technical and descriptive choices that projects face. It outlined some basic minimum requirements about required infrastructure and description, but otherwise let projects decide for themselves and explore different options. The minimum requirements are outlined in the following blog posts.
 * OER Programme Phase 2 (2010 - 2011) Technical Requirements
 * OER Pilot Programme (2009 - 2010) Technical Requirements
 * Metadata Guidelines for the OER Programme

Overview of UKOER Tech choices

 * Summary of UKOER technology and descriptive choices

Technical Guidance contents
The following subsections note sources for general information in the area, outline contextualised advice, and where appropriate note examples from OER projects.
 * Information about software tools and platforms for OERs
 * Information about description for OERs
 * Search Engine Optimisation for OERs
 * Information about syndication and packaging formats for OERs
 * Information about aggregating OERs
 * Distribution Platforms
 * Information about applying or associating licenses with OERs