Brent Thomas and Cheryl Brown

Multimedia designer and Instructional designer

The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand

Presentation

The objective of the OER (Open Educational Resources) project is to develop courseware that will be freely available to all tertiary education institutions in New Zealand.  We were faced with the challenge of developing a model for future online open-source education projects. We needed to develop a metadata profile in order to package the learning materials so that they were searchable, and we wanted to be sure that the process we developed was easy to use by a range of people.

The presentation will: 

• Share ideas about metadata application profiles, models and pitfalls.
• Give attendees an understanding of the process we used to develop the application profile. 
• Look at the technical process undertaken in packaging a learning object with metadata attached.
• Discuss and develop a shared understanding of interoperable metadata application profiles.
• Involve wrestling metaphors and catch cries.

Finally, we compare the OER metadata application profile with that of other developments in Aotearoa New Zealand and discuss suggestions for moving towards greater interoperability.  Come prepared. It packs a punch!

Presentation slides (1.5MB PPT)

Presentation slides (1.2MB PDF)

Paper (57KB PDF)

Brent has worked in multimedia and graphics for 7 years as a teacher and a developer. He knows heaps about wrestling.
Cheryl has been an instructional designer for 6 years and in 2004 won two ITPNZ awards:best conference research paper and staff excellence (shared) . She recently returned to Wellington from a stint in Hamilton and is deeply involved in interior design at present. She knows nothing about wrestling. Together they make a formidable <tag> team.

Instructional designers, multimedia designers, webmasters, librarians.