OER Hack Days / Porsche Ideas

An idea from the CETIS UKOLN OER Hack Days

PORSCHE thoughts
Following on from the recommendations from the OOER UKOER phase 1 pilot project and recent user workshops carried out via the PORSCHE and ACTOR UKOER phase 2 projects, our communities in medicine, dentistry veterinary medicine and wider healthcare groups have identified the following as areas which could be useful in encouraging future OER takeup by later adopters.

1. ‘Phone home’ tool

Allows a resource to be tracked and communicate with its original publisher, which lets users know when a change has been made, if it has gone out of date, when a new version is available or the availability of linked resources (using folksonomy/linked data principles?). Akin to software updaters and could be applied to patient consent status and impact evaluation.

http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Resource_Tracking_for_UKOER, https://open.umich.edu/wiki/OERca, http://www.meducator.net/, http://www.folksemantic.com/

2. Attribution tool

a. Allows creators of resources to easily stamp their resource with the correct attribution no matter what the format is before it is shared anywhere (i.e. other end of the OpenAttribute tool and like Pat Lockley’s WP plugin).

b. Adaption of this could be use for ‘hallmarking’ Consent Commons on resources that is human and machine readable.

3. Collaborative OER creation and peer review tools.

A tool to aid learning resource collaborative creation from OER, or to create OER collaboratively, with a platform to enable peer review. Mobile delivery of platform enabled. Optional authentication would allow practitioners to comment on resources, potentially providing a mechanism to link theory and practice. (This may be covered already in the LDSE project https://sites.google.com/a/lkl.ac.uk/ldse/ )

4. Interoperable workflows Creating and releasing OER through an aggregation of available tools (i.e. good practice risk assessment, repository upload), that are interoperable and take a resource from local institutional level to national and worldwide status.

Who
Kate Lomax (kate.lomax@londondeanery.ac.uk), Nick Sheppard (n.e.sheppard@leedsmet.ac.uk), James Outterside (james@medev.ac.uk), Suzanne Hardy (suzanne@medev.ac.uk), Lindsay Wood (lindsay@medev.ac.uk)