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Introducing SOL*R
Scott Leslie
BCcampus
June 2, 2006
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Outline
SOL*R Overview
Getting an Account/Logging In
Finding Resources
Contributing Resources
What Opportunities Can SOL*R Enable
Discussion
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What is SOL*R ?A service for BC post-secondary educators
aimed at facilitating the
SharingDiscoveryRemixing &Reuse
of provincially-funded (and other) learning resources under “open content-” style licenses
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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, 4th just closed its RFP in April.
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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
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Some of the challenges we’ve tried to address…
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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
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Different kinds of “Reuse”…
Instructors need to be able toReuse 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)
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Sustainability…
BCcampus needs to be able toTrack content use and reuse
Support the cataloguing of content
Support versioning of content
Secure content which should only be available to validated BC Educators
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…and some opportunities we’re trying to enable
Federation with other repositoriesOpen Archives InitiativeEdusource Communications Layer
Interoperation with different toolsWeb Services interfaces
Flexible item definitions and security modelComing Soon…
Multiple front endsIntegration with multiple back-ends
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Getting An Account/Logging InNeed validated BCcampus Portal Account to access SOL*R
Go to http://portal.bccampus.ca/
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http://solr.bccampus.ca/
Click ‘Login to SOL*R’
Then login with
username: lortest
password: lortest
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Finding Resources
Browsing
Free Text Search
Advanced Search
Federated Search
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Contributing a ResourceWhat kind of resource?
Which license?
Websites, WebCT exports, IMS Content Packages, Word documents, Flash movies…
Moderation Process; New Versions
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Lesson Assembly ToolDrag 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
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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
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Opportunities IIUse 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
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Demo Vista/WebCT CE 6 Integration
http://vista4demo.webct.com/webct/entryPageIns.dowebct
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Next Steps450+ resources from OPDF Rounds 1 & 2 uploaded so far, more to come
Other content welcome!
Contact me at [email protected] or 250-383-2456
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Questions?
(oh please let there be questions!)