[p2pu-dev] interesting project - oer glue

[Philipp Schmidt]

Went to an interesting presentation about OER Glue today. Dan had mentioned
them to me before - and I'd looked at their site a while back, but there
wan't much to see at that time. Not all of the features might be production
ready - but they showed screencasts of a lot of the mashup options.

The overall vision focuses on enabling instructors to provide better courses
to students - within institutions. But a lot of the themes are directly
related to P2PU original vision of creating a social layer for OER, and our
plans for becoming a lab. Except that an open lab would let us leverage the
curiosity of our community to extend to more tools and content. OER Glue is
aiming to build the key connectors themselves.

I asked about open source, and apparently a lot of the code is GPL v3. The
"proxy" is not - and I didn't totally understand the role of the proxy, but
hopefully someone more technical than me can check it out.

*OER Glue*


   - Mainly focused at 'instructors' right now
   - Pervasively mashing up the OER web
   - "It's impossible to keep up with all the cool tools - and why would you
   want to? If there is a great tool, use it."
   - There is a lot of good content out there
   - There are a lot of great tools out there
   - How do we create effective learning experiences that connect the
   content with the tools?
   - Discover - search and recommendation to find good content
   - Assemble - drag and drop mashup tools
   - Deploy - embed in your own platform (or use OER Glue's platform)
   - Track - track your activities across many different spaces [THIS IS
   UNIQUE - we can track what learners are doing on other platform, what are
   they doing, how long are they spending there, etc.]
   - We aim to be invisible
   - Building add-ons to LMS (Canvas, BlackBoard)
   - Connect back into your own gradebook
   - Also mentioned Red Rover (Peer 2 Peer Learning for the Enterprise) -
   http://redroverhq.com/product/
   - Building  a more scalable search and discovery platform by connecting
   into repositories
   - What happens when the content goes away / changes?
      - A: You always link to the existing content. It's always current, but
      what if it goes away? Strategy we have taken is to snapshot the
content so
      authors can use a particular version. And we notify you of changes to the
      original version.
   - Gives institutions the ability to pay attention to CC metadata to make
   sure there are no copyright issues (for materials that have the meta data
   embedded)
   - joel at oerglue.com

Two key strategies (I like the way they frame this)


   - Use Content Where it is
   - Integrate with Everyone

Technology


   - Browser extension - toolbar that tracks your activity across the web
   - Refining the tool to allow through a proxy (didn't quite understand how
   that works)
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