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Overview of Content Management Systems
(CMS) for OERJure Cuhalev
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• Jure Čuhalev, Director of Technology at Open Education Consortium
• 10+ years in working in Open Source Communities
• Previously Community Manager / Technology evangelist
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LMS Web CMS
Student enrolment
Discussion boards
Assessment
Content
Content
Integration with 3rd party content providers
General purpose
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Popular Web CMS Systems• WordPress (most popular)
• Drupal
• Joomla
• They are all actively maintained with large global and local communities
• Extendable with 3rd party commercial support, books and forums
• Accessibly features and translation support
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Licensing / costs
• Open Source software - Free (and open) but without warranty or support
• Commercial hosting available from as low as $5/month
• Require about 1 hour/month for basic maintenance (security and maintenance updates)
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How to choose?
• Survey existing solutions inside your organisation
• Avoid vendor lock-in (custom built solutions)
• Availability of external contractors
• Just pick one - good content trumps technology
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Getting started with WP• Free hosting on wordpress.com
• Use one of the default themes:
• Twenty Fifteen and Twenty Fourteen
• Just start writing and copying your existing content
• Once you hit limits of the WP.com, export content and import it into your hosted wordpress.org installation
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Accessibility
• Wordpress has dedicated accessibility team
• Admin dashboard and official themes (Twenty *) all follow best current practices
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• Start with content in a simple CMS
• Once you have one course entered, consult with CMS consultant about presentation and organisation
• Optimise for legibility and accessibility, design second
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Ed Tech?
• Prototype using off the shelf technologies
• Lots of advancements in general purpose software
• Vendors might not be experienced
• Not invented here syndrom
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Platforms
• OpenStax CNX - http://cnx.org/
• P2PU - https://p2pu.org/en/
• MERLOT Course builder
• (many more)
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Discoverability
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• Google will index and find your resources
• As long as you provide good content, no need for Search Engine Optimisation
• (Advanced) Structured Data Markup
• https://developers.google.com/structured-data/
• Benefit from being hosted on .edu and other educational domains
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• Each vertical search engine will have their own policies on how to include the data
• Most of them support entry via wizard
• Excel / CSV for larger data sets (100+ courses)
• Manually match your course categories with the one from provider
• Dublin Core / Learning Objects Metadata / LRMI