Locate, Collate & Aggregate

Over the last few years we have seen an increasing volume of open licensed, freely available educational content being presented and distributed online; these resources are being presented through many and various channels including repositories, learning environments, institutional websites, wikis and third party social sharing websites.

This session will explore some of the innovative technical approaches adopted across the JISC / HEA Open Educational Resources programmes and other similar initiatives,  which are applicable to finding, using and managing content for teaching and learning. These include:


 * Building collections of open educational resources
 * Drawing together information about learning resources
 * Building rich descriptions from disparate sources of information

The technical approaches this session will focus on include RSS aggregation and techniques similar to podcasting, presentation of resources through novel interfaces such as timelines and maps using geolocation data; representation of relationships between resources, using for example OAI-ORE; cross search, upload and metadata harvesting through the use of third party host APIs. We would welcome participation from current and past OER projects and others working in the area of teaching and learning resource management.