1. Improving discoverability
of course content
Jure Cuhalev
OpenCourseWare Consortium

2. Google Panda and Penguin updates to index
Prioritizing: original,
useful, resourceful and
fresh content

3. Provide indicators of
updates to courses
Social integration
Meta authorship
Visual style/speed

4. • Social sharing with improved meta-data

5. Google authorship (and better meta-data)
rel=author

6. • Publish as much data in RSS
• Extended RSS meta-data, full course
content, linked multi-media
• Canonical Archive link with suggested back-
link (for SEO)
• Improves search and enables scientific
research
• Pagination (ability to retrieve all courses)
Syndication

7. Syndication - next level
• Upload your meta-data to LRMI
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

8. In short: apply at least
the things that you
applied to your blog

9. Image credits
• Panda - http://www.flickr.com/photos/
ucumari/304626330/
• Penguins - http://www.flickr.com/photos/
gerhard3/437470058/