Authoring Courses from Content across Many Sources

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Authoring Courses from Content across Many Sources
Harvesting Open Educational Resources from Multiple Repositories of Choice Using Authoring Applications of Choice

(Taken from SOW for system prototype being developed for U.S. - India Engineering Education project)

The prototype is to support the collaborative development of courses among teachers and academic peers. Local delivery of these courses will depend on the “Learning Management System” of choice although it is recognized that Moodle is among the favorites for deployment at this time.

The prototype will support a core set of basic use cases to demonstrate the value of searching and aggregating content from multiple repositories to assemble shared course descriptions and notes.

The following use cases represent the scope of the working demonstrator to be ready for the pilot.
 * User Registers with the system
 * User updates their profile
 * Create a new course outline with a description and design notes
 * Search for existing material in online repositories using basic search and tags
 * Assemble course material from repositories into new Course
 * External repositories will include the MIT OCW project as well as the NPTEL IIT Web Courses and possibly the Connexions project.

The prototype must also illustrate the following design elements:

It needs to be easy for non-programmers, end users or systems administrators, to add new content sources to the environment, either open or proprietary, for aggregated searching and harvesting.

The potential for user and institutional choice of applications, must be demonstrated:
 * Educators must have choice in future of tools to use to author content
 * Institutions must have choice in the future of LMS technologies to deploy
 * End user learners may also have choice of tools