The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has announced that the nation will participate in a global experiment based on the social media technology behind Twitter and Facebook. The project seeks to find out how the social activity around online educational content can be captured and fed back to users, creators and publishers.
Working with the Learning Registry, a project funded by the US Department of Education and the US Department of Defence, JISC and the HE Academy are calling for institutions and developers to work with them on the new 10 month project. This project will lay the foundations of an infrastructure that will improve the way people choose educational information online.
It is seen to be commonplace to read reviews of books, music and items before choosing to buy or use them. The new experiment will look to assess how one can create the technical capabilities to reveal a rich picture of what people are doing with educational content.
This is said to build on JISC's work in discovery, activity data, Jorum and open educational resources supporting the discovery, use and analytics of digital resources for teaching, learning and research. The experiment will supposedly give JISC a much clearer view of the potential of this approach, and there will be a significant dataset of content available to future services.
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