How to track an OER
2 November 9th, 2010 at 05:11
When I did the F symbol blog post a while back, I did something cunning with the image itself. Rather than just being your standard run-of-the-mill image, it was instead a ninja image, filled with ninja like skills. As such every time that image loaded, a block of code ran to track a few things about the user, such as credit card details and hair style. Perhaps.
Ok, so before you get all nerded out and wonder why – imagine if all those Creative Commons pictures did this? Imagine if the OER released under these licenses contained a device to track where you OER went off to once it was downloaded or used elsewhere. So why not make the CC pictures a little bit smarter and allow for tracking? At the moment a CC picture is a flag to be waived, but it could be a registration plate to be tracked as you head for the border(s).
So post nerding you out and crushing you with analogies, here is some of the tracking data we garnished.
260 visits from
101 different computers (about 50/50 Nottingham to Outside world)
90 different browsers
11 different referrers (including netvibes and google reader, and a lot from twitter)
Accessed off Mac, PC and Linux, as well as Iphones, Blackberries and HTC devices.
Strikes me this is a good idea for OER tracking? Opinions? Ideas? Comments? Tweet me at @xpert_project
Erm…. no funny picture…..
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