No time for a long post today, just a quick announcement that the first info about our OER Recommender (funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation) went online today:
http://www.oerrecommender.org/. The underlying technology, Suggestr, will be open sourced as soon as we have a minute to breathe.
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Nifty — the Greasemonkey works great with Flock as well.
David, this is potentially groundbreaking. I appreciate your time constraints, but knowing how the recommendation relationships are created that you query at http://www.oerrecommender.org/recommendations.xml?u= would sure make a major difference in assessing and understanding this. More details, please!
Scott, thanks for the enthusiasm! Here is an explanation of the design and implementation of the OER Recommender. Let me know if you have further questions.