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OER in MACE and OpenScout
Prof. Dr. Martin Wolpers

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Who am I?
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (60 Institutes, 18.000 employees)
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT
Goal: Optimizing usability and usefulness of IT in the Interplay with
organizational work practice, structures, and processes
Department CAPLE
“Context and Attention in Personal Learning
Environments”

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MACE
MACE = Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe
Objectives
• Create a common infrastructure for enriching and retrieving educational
contents about architecture in Europe
• Provide community support around Architectural Educational Resources
Results
• Harvester for AER metadata into central repository
• Web-portal for access and community functionality
http://portal.mace-project.eu/

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OpenScout
OpenScout = Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-
improved content for management education and training
Objectives
• Enable easy re-use and adaptation of open content to the need and
context of learners and providers
• Create a common infrastructure for enriching and retrieving educational
contents about management in Europe
Results
• Harvester for AER metadata into central repository
• Web-portal for access and community functionality
• Extended services for repurposing
http://www.openscout.net/

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Problems with OERs
• Quality of OER
• Metadata Quality
• Rights on OER
• Educational resources are Unique Selling Point
• Educational resources quite expensive
• Reuse / repurposing
• Ensure uptake: teacher create their own learning material
• Unclear rights
• Quality management
• Money!

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Thank you!
Martin Wolpers
martin.wolpers@fit.fraunhofer.de