One of the greatest barriers when deploying a full-scale repository platform such as EPrints is the amount of configuration required to take the software from its “out of the box” state to something suitable for teaching and learning. Â Installing the …
Project Overview Currently there are significant barriers to individuals or smaller groups publishing OER materials. They can upload their work to a website, but rich media is effectively dark to search engines without adequate metadata, in addition they may forget …
The RedFeather project aims to fill a niche in e-learning where teachers want to share their resources without the use of a full-scale repository platform. Â I identified three such groups of users in an earlier blog post (accessible here) but …
During our work on teaching and learning repositories we identified cases where people wanted to share teaching resources but a repository platform such as EdShare would be unsuitable. These people all shared the need for a lightweight tool which enables …
Patrick, Andy and I returned from RepoFringe 2011 as the triumphant winners of the Developer Challenge. We were greeted in the labs with salutations of glory, emails were sent department-wide proclaiming our brilliance and parades were thrown in our honour. …