Session: Designing for reuse: Taxonomies, tagging, and plugins for modular lesson content

Date: Saturday, July 14, 2018
Time: 11:00 - 11:45 am (CDT) (UTC-05:00)
Location: Simon Hall 112
Format: General Lecture Session

Session description

TEL Library is a public, non-profit learning library dedicated to building a scalable and sustainable library of openly licensed, free, and affordable content solutions. We also re-package and re-use that content to offer curriculum solutions (courses, media books, etc.) that enable our partners to offer affordable education. Two things make this possible:

  1. Our content design model which is informed by software development models and information science, and
  2. WordPress, which we leverage to package and publish, and re-package and re-publish our content.

This presentation will dive into our content design model, and how we use WordPress and an ecosystem of plugins to offer multiple types of content - mediabooks, courses, lessons - to the public and to educational partners. The audience will learn how to develop flexible content around the idea of reusable objects (software development) and taxonomies (information science), how WordPress as a CMS allows for modular content and finally how we deploy the content through WordPress (and plugins!) in multiple ways.

Presenter

Kate Reynolds

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Platform Project Manager, TEL Library

Kate Reynolds spent over six years working in higher education in a variety of roles. Her work outside of education, including publishing project management and eCommerce management, dovetails with years of working inside higher education, giving her a strong background to navigate the realm of ed tech and online higher education. When she's not using WordPress to make to make education affordable, she's using it to blog about her personal interests - niche academic topics and general geekery.

Sessions

  • General Lecture Session: Designing for reuse: Taxonomies, tagging, and plugins for modular lesson content

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