Archive for April, 2011

Publishing OpenLearn metadata as linked data

OpenLearn is a website giving free access to Open University course material. We especially look at the “LearningSpace” where hundreds of HTML documents, called OpenLearn Units, are made available. These units represent very valuable resources for students as they provide entry points into specific topics, useful in particular in deciding whether or not to enroll [...]

ROLE Widget Consumes Linked Data

This is a guest post by Alexander Mikroyannidis, a researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, discussing the use of http://data.open.ac.uk to identify related material to OpenLearn units within a Moodle block.

The winning application of the KMi Linked Data Application Competition has attracted the interest of the ROLE project (Responsive Open Learning [...]