March 06, 2020: FLOE infrastructure
Present: Cindy, Colin, Jutta, Ned, Philip, Ted
Notes:
Not a one-size-fits-all across all resources but rather to match or find resources to match a particular learning goal.
Exploration for students to discover their learning needs.
A way to reach out to vendors to deliver various forms of learning material.
Funders can have the data of learning gaps.
Difficulties with metadata:
- Manual metadata is crappy. Ppl don’t do it right
- Not extensive enough to cover learning goals
FLOE diagram: https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/%28Floe%29+Diagrams?preview=/24945059/30048450/FLOE.jpg
There should be a more recent diagram
GOORU(http://gooru.org/about/): a search engine for OER
Colin asked about who: Informal self study groups for lifelong learning or closer to more formalized education (schools and classes).
Jutta: OSEP (Special Education Department in US) asked us to revisit the notion of