Introduction to SOL*R
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Sol*r is a service designed for BC post-secondary educators to facilitate the sharing, discovery, remixing, and reuse of provincially-funded learning resources under open content licenses. It supports online program development, resource interoperability, and provides a platform for logging in, finding, and contributing educational resources. The document outlines the opportunities, challenges, and next steps in enhancing resource sharing and collaboration among institutions.
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Introduction to SOL*R
- 1. Introducing SOL*R Scott Leslie BCcampus June 2, 2006
- 2. Outline SOL*R Overview Getting an Account/Logging In Finding Resources Contributing Resources What Opportunities Can SOL*R Enable Discussion
- 3. 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
- 5. Online Program Development Fund Funding to public post-sec 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 $4.5 million OPDF have taken place — one in 2003, 2004, and 2005, 4 th just closed its RFP in April.
- 6. 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
- 7. Some of the challenges we’ve tried to address…
- 8. 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
- 9. 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)
- 10. 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
- 11. … 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
- 13. Getting An Account/Logging In Need validated BCcampus Portal Account to access SOL*R Go to http://portal.bccampus.ca/
- 14. http://solr.bccampus.ca/ Click ‘Login to SOL*R’ Then login with username: lortest password: lortest
- 15. Finding Resources Browsing Free Text Search Advanced Search Federated Search
- 16. Contributing a Resource What kind of resource? Which license? Websites, WebCT exports, IMS Content Packages, Word documents, Flash movies… Moderation Process; New Versions
- 17. Lesson Assembly Tool Drag and Drop content from the repository to make new resources or Create new resources from scratch Can use templates (which can be specific to individual users or groups) Can export as IMS Content Package, SCORM file, PDF or plain web page
- 18. Potential Opportunities for your institution Connect existing repositories to provide seamless search and retrieval to validated BC educators Connect up different editing and authoring environments through the web services interfaces
- 19. Opportunities II Use this for storing other kinds of data Institution specific collections; collections shared between smaller consortia of institutions Hosted model for Institutional collections Direct access to resources for designers from with WebCT and other CMS
- 20. Demo Vista/WebCT CE 6 Integration http://vista4demo.webct.com/webct/entryPageIns.dowebct
- 21. Next Steps 450+ resources from OPDF Rounds 1 & 2 uploaded so far, more to come Other content welcome! Contact me at [email_address] or 250-383-2456
- 22. Questions? (oh please let there be questions!)