Folksemantic is a project to create tools that increase the impact of open education resources by helping people find, filter, collaborate around, and remix them. As part of the project, work is underway to integrate the OCW Finder, OER Recommender, and Luvfoo. Plans are to improve these tools and add collaboration, personalized recommendation, widgets, and publishing features. COSL is holding an online meeting on March 26 to describe the Folksementic project and solicit input. See http://oerrecommender.org/mtg to learn more.
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COSL and enPraxis are pleased to announce the release of eduCommons 3.1.1 ( http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/releases/3.1.1). This release provides migration support for eduCommons 3.0.2 users, as well as minor bug fixes for eduCommons 3.1.0-final. Migration allows previous eduCommons adopters to take advantage of numerous new features, including improved LinguaPlone 2.0 content translation support, which allows an OCW to organize content into multiple languages on the same site. The “Export to OpenOCW’ feature allows a user to send a copy of an eduCommons course into OpenOCW for reuse there. eduCommons OpenCouseWare management software is currently use by about 30 major institutions worldwide (list of adopters).
We got some worthwhile work done during the technology track of the OCWC conference in Dalian, China.
- We tested site metrics tools for OCWC use, including Google Analytics. This is still in the testing phase.
- We wrote a technology survey to establish a technical contact for each institution and to find out what types of software members are using to create and publish OCW content. This is almost done, and Clay has agrrd to send it out (I think).
- We wrote a Google Doc that compares eduCommons, core Moodle, and OU-UK Moodle. This is intended to help better inform OCW software decisions by newcomers.
More info and notes are available here: http://wiki.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?title=Software
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