OER Recommender

Linking OER, OpenCourseWare and the National Science Digital Library

OER Recommender was a content-based recommender to provide recommendations between courses and materials in OpenCourseWare sites and generally available Open Educational Resources (OERs), including NSDL (National Science Digital Library) resources. It was unique in that recommendations could be added to any OER provider website with the inclusion of a single line of JavaScript or injected in any website with the use of a Firefox (Greasemonkey) browser extension.

At COSL, I conceived of, designed and managed the development of OER Recommender.

OER Recommender continued life as part of a re-envisioned Folksemantic Project and as part of OER Glue.

Source: Brandon Muramatsu

Info

Utah State University
COSL :: Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
2005-2008

Key Collaborators: Justin Ball*, David Wiley*

Funding Sources: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and National Science Foundation

About

Brandon Muramatsu builds connections at the intersection of learning, technology, innovation and scale. His work focuses on online and digital learning to improve teaching and learning with a focus on open education. He has been involved in the development of learning technologies and education technologies, curriculum and course development, open education / open educational resources and educational digital libraries over the last 25+ years. His work has a focus on engineering and STEM education, both nationally and internationally, and at all education levels.

Brandon Muramatsu leads the design and implementation of local, national and international strategic education initiatives at MIT for MIT Open Learning, and he consults on open education and educational innovation and technology.