Presentation given at the Open Educational Resources International Symposium in the session discovering OERs. The presentation gives an account of the technical decisions made by the core-materials and open engineering resources pilot projects. Demonstrations of three methods of aggregating OERs is given including Custom Google Search Engine, Yahoo Pipes and searching Jorum Open, Flickr, Scribe, SlideShare, YouTube and Vimeo through their RSS Feeds and APIs.

1. Discovering OER through RSS and APIs Lisa J. Rogers, Research Associate Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University

4. Core-Materials Usage Stats Viewing Statistics for CORE-Materials resources (Sept 2009 – March 2010) Number of Resources Uploaded Total number of views Number of subscribers / followers YouTube 128 videos 17,417 20 subscribers Flickr 860 images 25,940 7 contacts Scribd 157 documents 40,706 (2,261 downloads) 32 subscribers SlideShare 157 documents 35,240 3 followers

7. Google Custom Search

8. Google Custom Search

9. Yahoo Pipes!

10. APIs

11. RSS

12. UKOER Search Demo

16. Open Engineering Resources

17. [email_address] @lisajrogers