Former COSLers Joel Duffin and Justin Ball are continuing their work on tools that make OER more valuable and useful. The OER Recommender (now part of the Folksemantic project) is one of the premiere tools in their bag. If you’ve visited an OER that uses the recommendation service (see “Related Resources” on the right of my Blogs, Wikis, and New Media for Learning page at USU OCW), you know that with one line of javascript you can provide automated recommendations of related OERs to any site. It’s one of the coolest OER services around.
Joel and Justin are currently soliciting feedback on the OER Recommender. How useful are the recommendations? How easy is it to include them in your site? How easy is it to style their appearance or control the collections from which recommendations are drawn? Please take a few minutes and head over to Folksemantic and complete one of the OER Recommender surveys at the bottom left of the page. You’ll very likely end up adding the service to your site…
David Wiley passes on a request for feedback from Joel Duffin and Justin Ball of this OER Recommender. “How useful are the recommendations? How easy is it to include them in your site? How easy is it to style their appearance or control the collections from which recommendations are drawn? ” Well, I can say one thing: I hate – just hate – search engines that convert my query for ‘Downes’ into a query for ‘down’.