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4 Creating your OER

4.3 Formats

OpenLearn units can be downloaded or taken away in several formats:

  • Print Format
  • Unit Content XML
  • Unit Content RSS
  • OU XML Package
  • IMS Content Package
  • IMS Common Cartridge
  • Plain Zip
  • Moodle Backup

At the asset level the major formats you will find are:

  • text in XML or PDF
  • animations in Flash
  • images as GIF or JPEG
  • audio files as MP3 and video files as MP4.

To help you to rework OpenLearn material, the OUXML structured authoring schema is provided as part of the downloaded unit, although you do need to know about authoring in XML.

Activity 5: Investigating formats and tools

You should allow 1 hour(s), 0 minute(s).

Log on to the LabSpace and find the text assets in XML or PDF, animations in Flash, and audio and video files.

Analyse each format in terms of:

  1. How easy it is to re-work the asset – what additional programmes are required?
  2. What assumptions are made about the technical competence of the user?

The OpenLearn website and Athabasca University in Canada both use the management learning system known as Moodle (see http://moodle.org/)

What are the advantages of using an open source learning management system?

Now read the discussion

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Creating open educational resources
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4 Creating your OER

4.3 Formats

OpenLearn units can be downloaded or taken away in several formats:

  • Print Format
  • Unit Content XML
  • Unit Content RSS
  • OU XML Package
  • IMS Content Package
  • IMS Common Cartridge
  • Plain Zip
  • Moodle Backup

At the asset level the major formats you will find are:

  • text in XML or PDF
  • animations in Flash
  • images as GIF or JPEG
  • audio files as MP3 and video files as MP4.

To help you to rework OpenLearn material, the OUXML structured authoring schema is provided as part of the downloaded unit, although you do need to know about authoring in XML.

Activity 5: Investigating formats and tools

You should allow 1 hour(s), 0 minute(s).

Log on to the LabSpace and find the text assets in XML or PDF, animations in Flash, and audio and video files.

Analyse each format in terms of:

  1. How easy it is to re-work the asset – what additional programmes are required?
  2. What assumptions are made about the technical competence of the user?

The OpenLearn website and Athabasca University in Canada both use the management learning system known as Moodle (see http://moodle.org/)

What are the advantages of using an open source learning management system?

Now read the discussion

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