O'Reilly Media Learning Content Provider

You can now import O'Reilly learning content to Oracle Learning as self-paced learning. The content that's imported depends on your O'Reilly subscription plan and the content accessible to you on their platform.

Learner progression and completion is tracked in Oracle Learning whether it's launched from O'Reilly or from Oracle Learning. Progress data is sent by O'Reilly to Oracle Learning using the xAPI protocol for sharing learning experience data. So you have a single learning transcript for your learners in Oracle Learning that includes O'Reilly content, regardless of where they launch.

Learners can easily find O'Reilly content in your Oracle Learning catalog by filtering with publisher or author information that O'Reilly sends to Oracle Learning.

Learning Catalog Search by Publisher

Learning Catalog Search by Publisher

Certain details of O'Reilly content can't be changed in Oracle Learning because O'Reilly is the authority on their content. O'Reilly will send updates to Oracle Learning as necessary. Here's the information that can and can't be changed in Oracle Learning.

Can't Change Can Change
  • Content URL
  • Title
  • Summary
  • Description
  • Instruction languages
  • Expected effort
  • Publisher
  • Author
  • Instructor
  • Completion rules
  • Status
  • Deactivation date
  • Visibility
  • Notification pattern
  • Catalog visibility dates
  • Coordinator
  • Related materials
  • Additional information
  • Skills and qualifications
  • Topics and community associations
  • Featured dates

This enhancement extends the external content that you can leverage in Oracle Learning and provides your learners with a single learning catalog for all their training needs

Steps to Enable

Prerequisites

  1. Enable the Redwood user experience.
  2. Enable the 24D Redwood catalog management feature.

You need to complete set up in both Oracle Learning and O'Reilly.

Set up in Oracle Learning

  1. Create a user account you'll provide to O'Reilly so they can authenticate to your instance and send their content and learner progression.
    1. On the Tools > Security Console, Users tab, add a user account.
    2. Set Associated Person Type to None.
    3. Enter the appropriate user details so you can identify the account. Give the account a meaningful user name, such as O'Reilly.
    4. Create a job role and include the Learning Content Provider duty role.
    5. Grant this role to the new user account. The role allows this account to use the necessary Oracle APIs to receive content and completions from O'Reilly.
  2. Enable the O'Reilly external provider using the Configure External Providers task on the My Client Groups > Learning page.
    1. Configure the O'Reilly provider.
    2. Enter the user account created in the previous step and validate.
    3. Optionally change the attribute mappings. These let you map certain O'Reilly attributes to attributes in Oracle Learning that you might have extended or customized.

Set up in O'Reilly

  1. Contact O'Reilly Platform Integrations (platform-integration@oreilly.com) and give them the user name created in Oracle Learning. In turn, they'll provide you with this information:
    • A public certificate so they can authenticate to the Oracle Learning APIs to send content and completion data
    • A trusted issuer name for their JWT token

Set up in Oracle

  1. Add O'Reilly's public certificate to Oracle Learning to authenticate incoming requests from O'Reilly. For detailed steps, see Configuring Oracle API Authentication for Content Provider (document ID 3041374.1) on My Oracle Support. 

Schedule background processes for Oracle Learning

  1. Using the Tools > Scheduled Processes task, schedule these processes:
  • ESS job to run Bulk ingest to OSCS to make new content and updates from Percipio visible in Oracle Learning. Set the program name to OLC-REST and leave the other input fields empty.  We recommend a frequency of once per day.
  • Process learning experience statements to process any learner experience statements from Percipio that for some reason weren't processed immediately. We recommend a frequency of once per day.
  • Process Learning Access, Assignments, Content, and Notifications to deactivate content when the deactivation date set by Percipio arrives. We recommend a frequency of once per day.

Tips And Considerations

  • Single sign in is required between your Oracle Learning and O'Reilly instances using any Identity Provider of your choice. Contact your O'Reilly account team to help with this.
  • For any setup related queries for O'Reilly, contact O'Reilly Platform Integrations (platform-integration@oreilly.com).
  • If you're planning to use more than one of the learning connectors, the Learning Connect SKU might be applicable. For more details, check Oracle Learning Connect.

Key Resources

For more information refer to External Content Providers chapter of Implementing Learning guide.