OERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search

The open educational resources (OER) movement has gained momentum in the past few years. With this new drive towards making knowledge open and accessible, a large number of OER repositories have been established and made available online throughout the world. However, the inability of existing sear...

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Autores principales:	Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena, Chee Seng Chan, Choy Yoong Tham
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2013
Materias:	OERScout Open Educational Resources OER OER Search Desirability of OER OER Curation Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/24bbdea803224b63aa6db479f16571f0
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:24bbdea803224b63aa6db479f16571f02021-12-02T19:25:29ZOERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search10.19173/irrodl.v14i4.15051492-3831https://doaj.org/article/24bbdea803224b63aa6db479f16571f02013-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1505https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 The open educational resources (OER) movement has gained momentum in the past few years. With this new drive towards making knowledge open and accessible, a large number of OER repositories have been established and made available online throughout the world. However, the inability of existing search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing to effectively search for useful OER which are of acceptable academic standard for teaching purposes is a major factor contributing to the slow uptake of the entire movement. As a major step towards solving this issue, this paper proposes OERScout, a technology framework based on text mining solutions. The objectives of our work are to (i) develop a technology framework which will parametrically measure the usefulness of an OER for a particular academic purpose based on the openness, accessibility, and relevance attributes; and (ii) provide academics with a mechanism to locate OER which are of an acceptable academic standard. From our user tests, we have identified that OERScout is a sound solution for effectively zeroing in on OER which can be readily used for teaching and learning purposes. Ishan Sudeera AbeywardenaChee Seng ChanChoy Yoong ThamAthabasca University PressarticleOERScoutOpen Educational ResourcesOEROER SearchDesirability of OEROER CurationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 14, Iss 4 (2013)
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spellingShingle	OERScout Open Educational Resources OER OER Search Desirability of OER OER Curation Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena Chee Seng Chan Choy Yoong Tham OERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search
description	The open educational resources (OER) movement has gained momentum in the past few years. With this new drive towards making knowledge open and accessible, a large number of OER repositories have been established and made available online throughout the world. However, the inability of existing search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing to effectively search for useful OER which are of acceptable academic standard for teaching purposes is a major factor contributing to the slow uptake of the entire movement. As a major step towards solving this issue, this paper proposes OERScout, a technology framework based on text mining solutions. The objectives of our work are to (i) develop a technology framework which will parametrically measure the usefulness of an OER for a particular academic purpose based on the openness, accessibility, and relevance attributes; and (ii) provide academics with a mechanism to locate OER which are of an acceptable academic standard. From our user tests, we have identified that OERScout is a sound solution for effectively zeroing in on OER which can be readily used for teaching and learning purposes.
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author	Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena Chee Seng Chan Choy Yoong Tham
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title	OERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search
title_short	OERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search
title_full	OERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search
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title_full_unstemmed	OERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search
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publisher	Athabasca University Press
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OERScout technology framework: A novel approach to open educational resources search

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