Authoring and Usage of Useful and Usable OER Reusable Orchestration Appliances

Abstract

The Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Zambia currently does not have an archive of teaching material including most of the departments. This also supersedes to other Universities across the country. As a result, the learning management system (LMS) such as Moodle gets filled with learning materials as well as notes and assignments, to which this information is deleted once the academic year is done. We intend to build a central repository for the dissemination and preservation of teaching material by leveraging, open-source Islandora repository. The ingestion and retrieving of the education content will be done within the Islandora system. We conducted a usability study with students using the SUS technique. The system got good results from the test with some suggestions of features from users.