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Evaluating Simple Repository Deposit for Open Educational Resources

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The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network (ICADL 2012)

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The rise of technologies and simpler software tools have been identified as drivers for the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. However, content creators have been slow to adopt current OER solutions, as is shown by weak repository deposit rates and activities. To begin to address this, a desktop tool that simplifies the deposit process and that can be integrated into the content creation workflow was created. The goal of the tool was to support metadata that could accurately describe OERs and to ensure that, when deposited using the tool, OERs were represented correctly in the repository. Evaluation of the tool by users showed its potential in simplifying the repository deposit process, encouraging the creation of OERs and motivating content creators to share. Furthermore, users were also able to represent OERs using the adopted metadata standard and were satisfied with the way in which their OERs were represented in the repository.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa

    Morwan Mohamed Nour, Kyle Williams & Hussein Suleman

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  1. National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec.4, Roosevelt Road, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hsin-Hsi Chen

  2. University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, PO Box 123, 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Gobinda Chowdhury

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Mohamed Nour, M., Williams, K., Suleman, H. (2012). Evaluating Simple Repository Deposit for Open Educational Resources. In: Chen, HH., Chowdhury, G. (eds) The Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network. ICADL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_35

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