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Innovative Practices

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

OER Discovery: Ensuring that OER Rise to the Top

DOI
https://doi.org/10.13001/joerhe.v2i1.7879
Submitted
April 5, 2023
Published
2023-10-16

Abstract

This paper discusses the challenges of ensuring discoverability of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the absence of clear standards for sharing them. Despite the efforts of librarians and instructors to create a wealth of OER, discoverability remains limited and often relegated to a list of links on a LibGuide. The authors address this challenge by highlighting technical and descriptive barriers to OER discoverability. The authors then describe the development of a hybrid metadata standard for OER and its deployment through the institutional repository. Although provisional, this approach ensures that OER records can be adapted to future metadata standards and exported to third-party repositories. This paper underscores the importance of developing an effective metadata standard for OER to ensure their discoverability for learners and educators.

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