Track OER

Use Case Summary: This use case considers the inhibitions and restrictions on OER projects and the associated impact on the educator community from restricted tracking data. Context: In the Bridge to Success (B2S.aacc.edu) project materials have ... [More] been generated that take OER from the Open University and make them available as reworked OER with a focus on use in US Community Colleges. The content is released in OpenLearn’s LabSpace. This material is available for use on other systems under the CC-BY permissive form of the Creative Commons licence. Transfer to other servers is permitted and supported by the release of downloadable content packages and clear messages that material can be copied and reused as permitted by the CC-BY licence. Requirements: The project is funded by the Next Generation Learning Challenge (nextgenlearning.org) with requirements that we research use in identified pilots and reach targets about the use and impact of B2S content. Some pilots need to manage their registered students through the content and would like to provide access to B2S content from institutional VLE. We also are actively investigating other platforms such as Peer-to-peer University, iTunesU and OERGlue. Existing approach: Information on use is available as long as content remains on the LabSpace system through analytics and support for groups in the Learning Club. If content transfers we may then have no data about the use of the content and be unable to learn more about the use or report back to our funder. Solution: The Track OER system provides information back to the originator of the content to show the content that is reused and the location in which it now operates. The scale of reuse can now be monitored and further information sought if needed. Success criteria: A programme of testing will demonstrate the capability to track and provide accurate data into the system. Impact will be assessed during the period of the project through use of the tracking data within existing reporting of OpenLearn performance. Further benefits are expected for example identification of reuse cases and interfaces that reveal where alternative content can be found, these may occur after the project. Community: The need for a tracking system appears repeatedly in OER projects and providing sites, particularly as it is common to need to show impact to funders and institutions. For the educator community the challenge to correctly attribute and meet the intent in sharing content is enhanced. We will specifically explore this with the Community College educator community. For the learner community the benefits will come from more flexible use of content and the potential to use the data provided to connect groups learning in different online spaces. Engagement: the idea for tracking has been considered for some time, including in the context of JISC CETIS, OLnet and work by MIT. In addition Creative Commons have identified the need for tracking as important in extending use of the CC licence for Museums and Art works and are interested in this activity and how it could work with the embedded licence. This use case is released under CC-BY-SA. [Less]

Use Case Summary: This use case considers the inhibitions and restrictions on OER projects and the associated impact on the educator community from restricted tracking data. Context: In the Bridge to Success (B2S.aacc.edu) project materials have ... [More] been generated that take OER from the Open University and make them available as reworked OER with a focus on use in US Community Colleges. The content is released in OpenLearn’s LabSpace. This material is available for use on other systems under the CC-BY permissive form of the Creative Commons licence. Transfer to other servers is permitted and supported by the release of downloadable content packages and clear messages that material can be copied and reused as permitted by the CC-BY licence. Requirements: The project is funded by the Next Generation Learning Challenge (nextgenlearning.org) with requirements that we research use in identified pilots and reach targets about the use and impact of B2S content. Some pilots need to manage their registered students through the content and would like to provide access to B2S content from institutional VLE. We also are actively investigating other platforms such as Peer-to-peer University, iTunesU and OERGlue. Existing approach: Information on use is available as long as content remains on the LabSpace system through analytics and support for groups in the Learning Club. If content transfers we may then have no data about the use of the content and be unable to learn more about the use or report back to our funder. Solution: The Track OER system provides information back to the originator of the content to show the content that is reused and the location in which it now operates. The scale of reuse can now be monitored and further information sought if needed. Success criteria: A programme of testing will demonstrate the capability to track and provide accurate data into the system. Impact will be assessed during the period of the project through use of the tracking data within existing reporting of OpenLearn performance. Further benefits are expected for example identification of reuse cases and interfaces that reveal where alternative content can be found, these may occur after the project. Community: The need for a tracking system appears repeatedly in OER projects and providing sites, particularly as it is common to need to show impact to funders and institutions. For the educator community the challenge to correctly attribute and meet the intent in sharing content is enhanced. We will specifically explore this with the Community College educator community. For the learner community the benefits will come from more flexible use of content and the potential to use the data provided to connect groups learning in different online spaces. Engagement: the idea for tracking has been considered for some time, including in the context of JISC CETIS, OLnet and work by MIT. In addition Creative Commons have identified the need for tracking as important in extending use of the CC licence for Museums and Art works and are interested in this activity and how it could work with the embedded licence. This use case is released under CC-BY-SA. [Less]

Use Case Summary: This use case considers the inhibitions and restrictions on OER projects and the associated impact on the educator community from restricted tracking data. Context: In the Bridge to Success (B2S.aacc.edu) project materials have ... [More] been generated that take OER from the Open University and make them available as reworked OER with a focus on use in US Community Colleges. The content is released in OpenLearn’s LabSpace. This material is available for use on other systems under the CC-BY permissive form of the Creative Commons licence. Transfer to other servers is permitted and supported by the release of downloadable content packages and clear messages that material can be copied and reused as permitted by the CC-BY licence. Requirements: The project is funded by the Next Generation Learning Challenge (nextgenlearning.org) with requirements that we research use in identified pilots and reach targets about the use and impact of B2S content. Some pilots need to manage their registered students through the content and would like to provide access to B2S content from institutional VLE. We also are actively investigating other platforms such as Peer-to-peer University, iTunesU and OERGlue. Existing approach: Information on use is available as long as content remains on the LabSpace system through analytics and support for groups in the Learning Club. If content transfers we may then have no data about the use of the content and be unable to learn more about the use or report back to our funder. Solution: The Track OER system provides information back to the originator of the content to show the content that is reused and the location in which it now operates. The scale of reuse can now be monitored and further information sought if needed. Success criteria: A programme of testing will demonstrate the capability to track and provide accurate data into the system. Impact will be assessed during the period of the project through use of the tracking data within existing reporting of OpenLearn performance. Further benefits are expected for example identification of reuse cases and interfaces that reveal where alternative content can be found, these may occur after the project. Community: The need for a tracking system appears repeatedly in OER projects and providing sites, particularly as it is common to need to show impact to funders and institutions. For the educator community the challenge to correctly attribute and meet the intent in sharing content is enhanced. We will specifically explore this with the Community College educator community. For the learner community the benefits will come from more flexible use of content and the potential to use the data provided to connect groups learning in different online spaces. Engagement: the idea for tracking has been considered for some time, including in the context of JISC CETIS, OLnet and work by MIT. In addition Creative Commons have identified the need for tracking as important in extending use of the CC licence for Museums and Art works and are interested in this activity and how it could work with the embedded licence. This use case is released under CC-BY-SA. [Less]

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I'm a bit behind with my blogging and I have lot's to talk about, so let's dive in... Way back on the 12 September I had two very useful meetings, including one with the wider Track OER team/group. The response to our progress on the technical ... [More] activities was positive. Some significant outcomes from the meetings were: Can we take the CaPReT-Piwik work and extend it to Google Analytics? After some discussion we decided that this was my next high priority task. A suggestion from Guy Barrett regarding the [CaPReT-MSIE problem][cloud:6474] - can we put a HTML comment into the pasted content, to offer the user some help? Can we ensure that CaPReT/-Piwik/-GA works with Drupal 6 - jQuery 1.3.2 (ie. an old version of the jQuery Javascript library)? Can we ensure that the CaPReT Javascripts do not degrade the page load-times for OpenLearn, LabSpace and so on? (Performant isn't a word.. it is now.) I got stuck into Guy's suggestion straight away, and extended it to include a link to further sources of help. You can see an example of the comment in this Google Doc. I'm pleased to say that we have at least a partial solution for CaPReT-GA. I've used Google Analytics event tracking, with actions of 'copy' and 'view', the copied text as the event label, and the length of the copied text as the event value (for copy only). The copy action is fully tracked (source host and URL), but we haven't been able to get the destination host/URL. This seems to be a limitation of Google Analytics. A CaPReT copy uses Javascript, while the tracker that is added to the copied text and used to track views of the pasted content is a no-Javascript web beacon (web bug). You may like to view an example of CaPReT-GA - and try copying. We've done some work on performance too, using Google's online Closure Compiler to [compress the CaPReT Javascripts][Toer:build/capret]. If you wish to add a version of jQuery and change "whitespace-only" to "simple optimizations", try this build script. The minified CaPReT-GA Javascript is here The third round of technical testing was put back a week, but I'm happy to say that Roger Moore and Mick Deal have shown great flexibility. Testing is underway this week, using this test script. It concentrates on B2S testing with campaign tracking, CaPReT-GA testing, and a new strand C, testing the OER Form service and bookmarklet. I haven't talked much about this last point, but I'll leave that for a future post. Nick, signing off. Over and out.. [Less]

I'm a bit behind with my blogging and I have lot's to talk about, so let's dive in... Way back on the 12 September I had two very useful meetings, including one with the wider Track OER team/group. The response to our progress on the technical ... [More] activities was positive. Some significant outcomes from the meetings were: Can we take the CaPReT-Piwik work and extend it to Google Analytics? After some discussion we decided that this was my next high priority task. A suggestion from Guy Barrett regarding the [CaPReT-MSIE problem][cloud:6474] - can we put a HTML comment into the pasted content, to offer the user some help? Can we ensure that CaPReT/-Piwik/-GA works with Drupal 6 - jQuery 1.3.2 (ie. an old version of the jQuery Javascript library)? Can we ensure that the CaPReT Javascripts do not degrade the page load-times for OpenLearn, LabSpace and so on? (Performant isn't a word.. it is now.) I got stuck into Guy's suggestion straight away, and extended it to include a link to further sources of help. You can see an example of the comment in this Google Doc. I'm pleased to say that we have at least a partial solution for CaPReT-GA. I've used Google Analytics event tracking, with actions of 'copy' and 'view', the copied text as the event label, and the length of the copied text as the event value (for copy only). The copy action is fully tracked (source host and URL), but we haven't been able to get the destination host/URL. This seems to be a limitation of Google Analytics. A CaPReT copy uses Javascript, while the tracker that is added to the copied text and used to track views of the pasted content is a no-Javascript web beacon (web bug). You may like to view an example of CaPReT-GA - and try copying. We've done some work on performance too, using Google's online Closure Compiler to [compress the CaPReT Javascripts][Toer:build/capret]. If you wish to add a version of jQuery and change "whitespace-only" to "simple optimizations", try this build script. The minified CaPReT-GA Javascript is here The third round of technical testing was put back a week, but I'm happy to say that Roger Moore and Mick Deal have shown great flexibility. Testing is underway this week, using this test script. It concentrates on B2S testing with campaign tracking, CaPReT-GA testing, and a new strand C, testing the OER Form service and bookmarklet. I haven't talked much about this last point, but I'll leave that for a future post. Nick, signing off. Over and out.. [Less]

I'm a bit behind with my blogging and I have lot's to talk about, so let's dive in... Way back on the 12 September I had two very useful meetings, including one with the wider Track OER team/group. The response to our progress on the technical ... [More] activities was positive. Some significant outcomes from the meetings were: Can we take the CaPReT-Piwik work and extend it to Google Analytics? After some discussion we decided that this was my next high priority task. A suggestion from Guy Barrett regarding the [CaPReT-MSIE problem][cloud:6474] - can we put a HTML comment into the pasted content, to offer the user some help? Can we ensure that CaPReT/-Piwik/-GA works with Drupal 6 - jQuery 1.3.2 (ie. an old version of the jQuery Javascript library)? Can we ensure that the CaPReT Javascripts do not degrade the page load-times for OpenLearn, LabSpace and so on? (Performant isn't a word.. it is now.) I got stuck into Guy's suggestion straight away, and extended it to include a link to further sources of help. You can see an example of the comment in this Google Doc. I'm pleased to say that we have at least a partial solution for CaPReT-GA. I've used Google Analytics event tracking, with actions of 'copy' and 'view', the copied text as the event label, and the length of the copied text as the event value (for copy only). The copy action is fully tracked (source host and URL), but we haven't been able to get the destination host/URL. This seems to be a limitation of Google Analytics. A CaPReT copy uses Javascript, while the tracker that is added to the copied text and used to track views of the pasted content is a no-Javascript web beacon (web bug). You may like to view an example of CaPReT-GA - and try copying. We've done some work on performance too, using Google's online Closure Compiler to [compress the CaPReT Javascripts][Toer:build/capret]. If you wish to add a version of jQuery and change "whitespace-only" to "simple optimizations", try this build script. The minified CaPReT-GA Javascript is here The third round of technical testing was put back a week, but I'm happy to say that Roger Moore and Mick Deal have shown great flexibility. Testing is underway this week, using this test script. It concentrates on B2S testing with campaign tracking, CaPReT-GA testing, and a new strand C, testing the OER Form service and bookmarklet. I haven't talked much about this last point, but I'll leave that for a future post. Nick, signing off. Over and out.. [Less]