News – Greenfield http://greenfield.mit.edu A New Way of Thinking about OpenCourseWare and Open Educational Resources for MIT Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:39:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 Turning metadata, usage data and stuff into something interesting for OCW http://greenfield.mit.edu/2010/10/24/turning-metadata-usage-data-and-stuff-into-something-interesting-for-ocw/ Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:40:53 +0000 http://greenfield.mit.edu/?p=156 I ran across this summary of a meeting on “What metadata is really useful?” hosted by JISC CETIS. While structured (administrative) metadata is less useful to me now than it was when I was working on IEEE LOM, the concept of data about the use of resources like MIT OpenCourseWare is of interest to me.

Phil Baker summarizes the meeting outcomes as:

Here’s a sampler of the ideas turned up during the day:
* continue to build the resources with background information that I gathered for the meeting.
* promote the use common survey tools, for example the online tool used by David Davies for the MeDeV subject centre (results here).
* textual analysis of metadata records to show what is being described in what terms.
* sharing search log in a common format so that they can be analysed by others (echoes here of Dave Pattern’s sharing of library usage data and subsequent work on business intelligence that can be extracted from it).
* analysis of search logs to show which queries yield zero hits which would identify topics on which there was unmet demand.

Baker, P. (2010, October 19). “CETIS “What metadata…?” meeting summary.” Retrieved October 24, 2010 from Phil’s JISC CETIS blog website: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2010/10/19/cetiswmd-summary/

Phil has another post on “Analysing OCWSEarch logs” that is also interesting.

]]> Greenfield covered by Open Education News http://greenfield.mit.edu/2010/05/07/greenfield-covered-by-open-education-news/ Fri, 07 May 2010 02:30:21 +0000 http://greenfield.mit.edu/?p=56 Open Education News has a brief announcement on the Greenfield project’s presentation at OCW Consortium Global 2010.

]]> i.Experience http://greenfield.mit.edu/2010/04/09/i-experience/ Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:06:40 +0000 http://greenfield.mit.edu/?p=7 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!
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