Presentation on use of WordPress to host and describe a collection of OERs for Design Engineering.

1. WordPress for hosting and describing learning resources Reflections from UKOER Delores and other projects.Phil Barker http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~phil

2. Background: Delores Delivering Open Educational Resources for Engineering Design. Static and dynamic collections of university-level OERs and other openly available resources relevant to Engineering Design. ICBL, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Innovative Design & Manufacturing Research Centre, University of Bath HE Academy / JISC UKOER phase 2 project

3. Delores systems

4. Hosting & description reqs for static collection Hold copy of resource? Metadata: title, description, authors, origin, date, subject classification, licence, resource type Embed preview Allow comments? Good web presence & participation RSS feeds Embedded metadata Flexibility Easy to use & maintain, familiar Exportable metadata??

5. Idea: use WordPress One blog post per resource (if required, can attach resources that are single files) Gives basic description & web presence WP handles author, date, title. + tags and topics for classification Extensions for metadata & additional functionality

6. Idea: use WordPress We’re not the only/first people to have an idea along these lines...

7. Similar ideas Oxford’s Triton Project (also a UKOER phase 2 collection project) Politics Inspires blog Regular short scholarly posts and commentaries released as OER Learning pathways drawing together sets of quality controlled OER material Thematic collections dynamically generated channels to learning http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/triton/about/ http://politicsinspires.org/

8. http://politicsinspires.org/

9. Similar ideas Edinburgh University’s OpenMed .... more later

11. Similar ideas CETIS Exploring the idea for disseminating our own publications Not available yet

13. Similar ideas Scriblio (formerly WPopac) Wordpress theme open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. project of Plymouth State University http://about.scriblio.net/

14. Hosting & description reqs for static collection Hold copy of resource? Metadata: title, description, authors, origin, date, subject classification, licence, resource type Embed preview Allow comments? Good web presence & participation RSS feeds Embedded metadata Flexibility Easy to use & maintain, familiar Exportable metadata??

15. Hosting & description capability of WordPress Hold copy of resource Metadata: title, description, authors, origin, date, subject classification, licence, resource type Embed preview Allow comments? Good web presence & participation RSS feeds Embedded metadata Flexibility Easy to use & maintain, familiar Exportable metadata??

16. Customisation In our case these are not properties of the WP post: Author, origin, date, licence, resource type Use WP “custom fields” Adapt theme so that these are displayed Plugin/theme? So that they are in RSS feed (yet to do)

17. Delores Selections http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/delores/selections/ Delores project http://deloresoer.wordpress.com/ header image cropped from Ford 6.8 sohc 3v triton v10 engine cutaway by Shannon Ramos. Licence: cc:by-nc