Introduction to SOL*R
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Sol*r is a service for BC post-secondary educators designed to facilitate the sharing, discovery, remixing, and reuse of learning resources under open content licenses. It is part of the Online Program Development Fund aimed at increasing online courses and inter-institutional partnerships, with $1.5 million allocated across three funding rounds. The document discusses challenges and opportunities in resource interoperability, content reuse, and future integration with various tools and systems.
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Introduction to SOL*R
- 1. Introducing SOL*R Scott Leslie BCcampus January 20 th , 2006
- 2. What is SOL*R ? A service for BC post-secondary educators aimed at facilitating the Sharing Discovery Remixing & Reuse of provincially-funded (and other) learning resources under “open content” style licenses
- 9. Online Program Development Fund Funding to public post-secondary institutions to increase the number of online courses, programs, technologies, and services Encourages inter-institutional partnerships Resources produced through this fund become accessible system-wide for sharing and reuse. Three rounds of the $1.5 million OPDF have taken place — one in 2003, 2004, and 2005.
- 10. BC Commons License 1 of 2 license options for OPDF content Developers to retain IP Supports free sharing of content among a regional consortia Developers retain commercialization potential outside consortia. Reduces effort for permission to reuse Requires sharing of modifications of original content with larger community
- 11. Some of the challenges we’ve tried to address…
- 12. Resource interoperability and granularity… Learning Resources come in all shapes and sizes: Different formats and media types – images, animations, web content, PDFs, Powerpoints, Word docs, course management system exports… Different levels of ‘granularity’- concepts, lessons, modules, courses, programs
- 13. Different kinds of “Reuse”… Instructors need to be able to Reuse content "as is“ Wrap existing content "as is” in new contexts (re-aggregate) Alter the content (either for quality, accuracy or to suite their own needs)
- 14. Sustainability… BCcampus needs to be able to Track content use and reuse Support the cataloguing of content Support versioning of content Secure content which should only be available to validated BC Educators
- 15. … and some opportunities we’re trying to enable Federation with other repositories Open Archives Initiative Edusource Communications Layer Interoperation with different tools Web Services interfaces Flexible item definitions and security model Coming Soon… Multiple front ends Integration with multiple back-ends
- 16. Opportunities these could enable with UBC I Connect existing UBC repositories to provide seamless search and retrieval to validated BC educators Connect up different editing and authoring environments through the web services interfaces
- 17. Opportunities II Use this for storing other kinds of data UBC specific collections; collections shared between smaller consortia of institutions Hosted model for UBC collections Direct access to resources for designers from with WebCT and other CMS
- 18. ... and some real obstacles we face Reluctant contributors The “just one more revision” syndrome Cultural antagonism to reusing other peoples’ materials The model may just be wrong ;-( The production model The delivery model The sharing model
- 19. Next Steps OPDF content currently being uploaded; public announcement in next 2 months Other content welcome! Apply for a BCcampus portal account at https://portal.bccampus.ca/ Contact me at [email_address] or 250-383-2456