Abstract
The paper describes the concept of a federated ecosystem for Open Educational Resources (OER) in the German education system. Here, a variety of OER repositories (ROER) (Muus-Merholz & Schaumburg, 2014) and reference platforms have been established in the recent past. In order to develop this ecosystem, not only are metadata standards necessary, but also open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are required in order to exchange information. In conclusion, it is essential that all relevant stakeholders agree on an explicit policy to be developed collaboratively. A metadata exchange service can serve to connect all partners.
Highlights
Digital learning content has become a common tool for teaching and learning in schools
Open Informational Ecosystems So far, we have described a system of Open Educational Resources (OER) repositories and referatories that can be called an “open informational ecosystem”
The ELIXIER network combines 8 federal educational servers as well as four additional content partners and makes a range of more than 50,000 resources available, whereby nearly 5.000 of which are described as OER
Summary
R et al 2016 A Federated Reference Structure for Open Informational Ecosystems. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2016(1): 13, pp. Richard Heinen*, Michael Kerres*, Gianna Scharnberg*, Ingo Blees† and Marc Rittberger†. The paper describes the concept of a federated ecosystem for Open Educational Resources (OER) in the German education system. A variety of OER repositories (ROER) (Muuß-Merholz & Schaumburg, 2014) and reference platforms have been established in the recent past. In order to develop this ecosystem, are metadata standards necessary, and open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are required in order to exchange information. It is essential that all relevant stakeholders agree on an explicit policy to be developed collaboratively. A metadata exchange service can serve to connect all partners
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