i.Experience

How did we prepare the i.Experience mirror?

We recently updated the Greenfield site in preparation for:

An internal OEIT project to replace the video players in selected courses with SpokenMedia project player.
An internal OEIT project to demonstrate search through SpokenMedia transcript files for delivery via MIT’s Google Search Appliance integrated with Greenfield OCW courses.
A joint project with MIT OpenCourseWare to test OER Recommender/Folksemantic.com recommendations with select OCW courses.

Here are the steps we used to prepare the i.Experience mirror of MIT OCW. This is our ~~first~~ second implementation of i.Experience.

Notes:

I originally started writing this post in April, but I’ve updated it to include the most recent changes to the mirror site.
I expect to produce a new version of this guide in mid-/late-August as OCW issues a new version of their mirror.

i.Experience is OEIT’s first forary into a new, “Interactive Experience” for OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources.

We worked with MIT OCW to install a local mirror copy of OCW and have already modified it slightly (within the license and terms of use).

In the next few weeks we will do things such as:

Incorporate the SpokenMedia Player into the video pages.
Integrate the MITOEIT Recommender system (based on Folksemantic.com/OER Recommender technology)
And…who knows, the sky’s the limit!