SHARE Project Progressing Well October 7, 2009
Posted by YvonneMonterroso in : Comms , trackbackI would like to start this entry with my compliments to the NTU team. I have been very impressed with the knowledge and understanding that has come from their side. I believe strong understanding of both the big picture and the goals that build into that picture are major keys to success. The NTU team has clearly demonstrated this which is great to see! In addition to the project team, we’ve also had the pleasure to work with some additional resources at NTU. I am currently emailing with Richard Cross to break down or work around any of the barriers for integration with IRep and this work is progressing.
Here in Waterloo, I have been working to involve several team members to help our team make this project a success. Some of the areas we have been engaging other Desire2Learn team members include working with: LOR developers to build out internationalization support for Creative Commons; the marketing team to build out a communication play; the Integration team to ensure the Shibboleth authentication piece will be in place to support integration with the JORUM repository; designers to influence metadata automation development; and senior administration to ensure project needs are being taken into consideration for future roadmap development.
The opportunity to work with JISC and help NTU integrate their resources with JISC’s JORUM repository is very exciting. We’ve been working with JORUM to ensure that the integration goes smoothly when building the integration out. Investigation into the JORUM OER Deposit Tool (http://www.jorum.ac.uk/deposit/index.html) and trying to think about better enabling NTU contributors to move materials into JORUM. Most recently, I have been prototyping a custom widget to be able to display one or more of the JORUM RSS feeds on the homepage. Below is an example using the Mathematics and Computer Science feed.
A suggestion may be to create individual widgets for each subject and using release conditions based on user enrollments or course homepages, users would only see relevant subject materials that have been newly added to JORUM or perhaps consolidating all of the subject widgets into a single feed may be preferred. Further investigation and discussion on this functionality will be necessary. Please feel free to send me your thoughts on this.
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Glad to see that you are looking at internatioanlising support for Creative Commons Yvonne I found this interesting link http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/korn-oppenheim/. I am trying to find out what it the difference between US and UK Creative Commons – I will put a tweet out as well but anything you have on yourside would be helpful. The subject specific RSS feeds from JORUM seems particularly interesting – I have modelling and testing sub-group within Development & Implementation Workpackage who I am sure would be happy to test out with regards usability.