Using eduCommons for your OER

Introduction

Brent Lambert / Cameron Bartlett

enPraxis

Performance Update

Performance Update (continued)

UI and Theme Updates

• Fixed width display
• Tab alignment/Other tab
• Table styling
• Light box integration

Schools Integration

• Optional new top level organizer
• Can be used with Schools within a university
• Can be used for eduCommons sites hosting content from multiple schools

Metadata

• Syllabi, Assignments, Exams, Multimedia, Lecture Notes, etc.
• Tag at object level
• Fast and comprehensive navigation
• Metadata, machine readable Metadata Use

• Citation View

Metadata (continuted)

• RDF view
• OAI feed
• RSS feed
• Import/Export
• @ symbol in Creators field/Recursive Metadata

3rd Party Integration

Example

Installers and Server Appliances

• Improved installation
• Server appliances with production level management built in
• Nginx
• Squid/Varnish
• Pound
• Stats
• Backups
• Maintenance
• Log file rotation

Server Appliance (continued)

• Install CD, flash drive
• EC3
• VMWare, KVM, XEN, VirtualBox
• Raw disk image

Hosting

• Changes/Upgrades to the way we are hosting eduCommons
• User management
• Platform as a Service

And Much Much More ...

• Move to a one step migration process
• Bug Fixes
• Load test tool

Thank You

Questions?