OER recommender: linking nsdl pathways and opencourseware repositories
Duffin, Joel and Muramatsu, Brandon

Published2008
ConferenceProceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries - JCDL '08, ACM Press
EditorsLarsen, Ronald · Paepcke, Andreas · Borbinha, José · Naaman, Mor
CountryUnited States

ABSTRACT
The OER Recommender (www.oerrecommender.org) is a web service that helps people find relevant open educational resources. It links the digital learning resources in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) disciplinary pathways with courses in OpenCourseWare repositories thereby providing critical contextual information. When a person browses a web page in a participating NSDL Pathway or OpenCourseWare repository, the recommender annotates the page with a "Recommended resources" link. The poster will describe the motivations for the project, provide detail on the recommendation engine, display recommendations for participating collections, and describe how other collections can participate in the project.

Keywords OER projects · OpenCourseWare · World Wide Web · repository

Published atPittsburgh PA
Languageeng
ISBN9781595939982
DOI10.1145/1378889.1378994
URLhttp://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1378889.1378994
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