OER Schema

OER Schema

Documentation for the Open Educational Resources Schema

Classes

Resource

A general component that all open educational resources are based from.

Course

An instructional course

CourseSection

A specific instance of a course offered during a specific term

CourseSyllabus

Topic

The context of a LearningComponent

LearningComponent

A generic component as a base to learning content

AssociatedMaterial

Material that is associated with the course.

SupportingMaterial

Material associated with an instructional component that teaches the learning objectives of that component.

SupplementalMaterial

Material associated with an instructional component that provides additional information about that component. Examples include Curriculum guides, Family course guides Student study guides.

ReferencedMaterial

Material associated with an instructional component that is referenced by that component. Examples include primary sources analysed in activities or assessments, material studied in Courses, raw material used in activities or assessments

InstructionalPattern

An assembly of learning components arranged to deliver a learning experience

Lesson

Unit

Module

Assessment

An assessment of a student's activity.

Quiz

A quiz assessment

Submission

An assessment on material provided by a Student

Task

A task given to a student

Activity

An activity performed by students which can be assessed and graded.

Project

A collection of activities, each of which test a particular skill, demonstrating proficiency across a range of skills

Practice

LearningObjective

An expected outcome or skill gained by application of a LearningComponent

TableOfContents

TableOfContentsEntry

Thing

The most generic type of items.

Intangible

A utility class that serves as the umbrella for a number of 'intangible' things such as quantities, structured values, etc.

ClassStanding

Rubric

A scoring guide with criteria and performance levels used to evaluate work.

RubricCriterion

A criterion inside a rubric with optional weighting.

RubricScale

A scale of performance levels used by a rubric.

RubricLevel

A performance level on a rubric scale.

Format

The format of the resource.

FaceToFaceFormat

An in-person format where participants are physically present.

GradeFormat

The grading format used in activities and assessments.

PointGradeFormat

A grading format using numerical points

LetterGradeFormat

A grading format using a letter value.

PercentGradeFormat

A grading format using a percentage value.

CompletionGradeFormat

A boolean grading format determining if the activity had been completed.

Class

DataType

A general type for data values.

Boolean

A truthy value

Yes

A truthy value of Yes.

No

A truthy value of No.

True

A truthy value of True.

False

A truthy value of False.

Date

A year, month, day value

DateTime

A value with year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds (optional) and timezone (optional).

Number

A general numeric value.

Integer

A numeric value of 0 or greater.

Text

URL

A web address

Time

A value including hour, minute, seconds (optional) and timezone (optional).

ActionType

A datatype declaring the type of action taken

Writing

The act of producing text or other written content.

Reading

The act of interpreting written text.

Making

The act of creating or constructing something.

Researching

The act of investigating systematically.

Listening

The act of paying attention to sound.

Watching

The act of observing something visually.

Reflecting

The act of thinking deeply or carefully about something.

Discussing

The act of talking about something with another person or people.

Observing

The act of noticing or perceiving something.

Presenting

The act of showing or offering something for others to scrutinize or consider.

Assess

The act of evaluating or estimating the nature, ability, or quality of something.

Property

Enumeration

StructuredValue

Person

Organization

Place

CreativeWork

MediaObject

A media object such as a video or interactive object.

ImageObject

An image

Properties

entry

An entry adds a item to a ToC.

name

The name of the item.

additionalName

An alias for the item.

additionalType

An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax.

description

A short description of the item.

image

An image of the item.

mainEntityOfPage

Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described.

sameAs

URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.

uri

URL of the item.

rangeIncludes

Relates a property to a class that constitutes (one of) the expected type(s) for values of the property.

domainIncludes

Relates a property to a class that is (one of) the type(s) the property is expected to be used on.

supersededBy

inverseOf

Relates a property to a property that is its inverse. Inverse properties relate the same pairs of items to each other, but in reversed direction. For example, the 'alumni' and 'alumniOf' properties are inverseOf each other. Some properties don't have explicit inverses; in these situations RDFa and JSON-LD syntax for reverse properties can be used.

courseIdentifier

The identifier of the course, i.e. MATH-100

sectionIdentifier

The identifier of the section, i.e. 001, 002, e3we1-09

primaryInstructor

instructor

coursePrerequisites

Requirements for taking the Course. May be completion of another Course or a textual description like "permission of instructor". Requirements may be a pre-requisite competency, referenced using AlignmentObject.

institution

department

program

syllabus

currentStanding

deliveryMode

enrollment

hasLearningObjective

A LearningObjective gained as a result of an InstructionalPattern .

forCourse

The Course in which the resource is meant for.

section

A specific instance of a course offered during a specific term.

termOffered

A term during which a course or course section is offered.

parentOf

A parent in relation to a child resource.

childOf

A child in relation to a parent resource.

mainContent

The main content relating to the item.

deliveryFormat

The format used to deliver the resource.

material

The supporting material assiociated with a resource.

assessing

The activity the assessment is assessing.

rubric

The rubric used to evaluate this assessment.

assessedBy

The assessment for this activity.

gradingFormat

The grading format for this resource

skill

A learned skill obtained by completion of a LearningObjective

forComponent

Which LearningComponent the resource supports (inverse of hasComponent)

hasComponent

Which LearningComponent the InstructionalPattern contains or is supported by (inverse of forComponent)

doTask

Which tasks are to be completed for a LearningComponent

typeOfAction

The type of action to be taken

forTopic

The Topic the resource is associated with

associatedMedia

Refers to any media referenced by the content

hasCriterion

Criteria included in the rubric.

rubricScale

The performance scale applied to the rubric.

rubricType

The rubric style (analytic, holistic, single point, checklist).

criterionWeight

Relative weight applied to this criterion.

hasLevel

Performance levels in this scale.

levelOrdinal

Ordering value for the level (higher means higher performance).

levelPoints

Points assigned to this level.

pointsRequired

Whether points must be assigned for each level in this scale.