[p2pu-dev] interesting project - oer glue

[Philipp Schmidt]

Adding joel and justin from OER Glue to the thread (if you want - just hit
reply to the list, and we'll authorize you as the messages come in) P

On 25 October 2011 19:31, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org> wrote:

> 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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