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This is my talk at the Open Course Ware Conference in Cambridge UK, April 2012. It is quite dense, since it was a 15 minute talk. It illustrates my work to make it easier to create remixable education content. To remix content it is helpful to have a format that emphasizes semantics and structure. We are starting to work on an open source editor that helps authors either create content from scratch or import and then add nice structure and semantics without undue pain.
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Expanding the Ecosystem for Remixable OER
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under th Creative Commons Attribution License.
Kathi FletcherOpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2012
April 1618, 2012
My background
Kathi Fletcher
Background :
Connexions PM and Technical Director 4 Yrs
Lessons: Do what you are best at and empower the community to build an ecosystem around you.
Fellowship:
An OER Roadmap for an Ecosystem of OER
Technical plumbing for OER
• concentrating on publishing
Repositories
Benefits of Remixability:Learn anywhere
EPUB/EBook
Web/Online Accessibility Tools
PDF/Print
Library photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
RemixableOER
Edit / Translate.
Publish, Compile, Accredit
Learning & PracticingTools
Transform
Benefits of remixability:The community adds value
What makes a repository remixable?
Modular : Reusable componentsPluggable : Editable, structured format (hard to do)Shareable : CC license, permission to reuseReliable : You can count on it being there
Pluggability is hard to support, though
Authoring remixable OER is too hard right now
Make it easier1) Grow the developer community solving the
problem by providing APIs2) Create an importer/editor that is as easy as Word.
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under th Creative Commons Attribution License.
OER APIs: Publishing OERPub based on SWORD
Simple Webservice Offering Repository Deposit
OERPub /SWORD
OERPub /SWORD
OERPub /SWORD
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Making Authoring EasierTransform open teaching materials to
remixable format
Connexions ImporterConvert, Preview, and Upload docs (word/oo/gdocs/blogs) to
Connexions and more
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Wherever the learning is – start there.Word → Remix
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Wherever the learning is – start there.Word → Remix
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Web → Remix
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Web → Remix
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Google Docs → Remix
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Google Docs → Remix
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The result – Biology Ch1.1
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The result – Biology - Ch1.2
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The result – Biology - Ch1.3
Next Steps – Build an editor
Engage developer community
Target HTML5
Use just-in-time semantics and templates
Author Behaviors that Subvert Semantics
Cut and paste – incredibly useful for authors, but tends to result in crazy formatting (ex: a table has a heading style)
Actions that “do” rather than “describe”[Tab] for table/list
“*”, “1” for bulleted or numbered list
Bold for heading, term,
Italics for foreign term, citation
Just-in-time Semantics
Image used with permission from P. Flynn's study on usability of authoring structured documents (http://wiki.ucc.ie/structed/).
Use authors' looks-oriented actions to elicit meaning-oriented helpers.
Example: author tabs –
ask about paragraph
vs. table
vs. list
Templates – Provide Scaffolding and Consistency for Authors
This example is taken from American Mathematics Institutes's Unsolved Problems List (aimpl.org)
Existing editors to target
TinyMCE New Wikipedia visual editor Sigil EPUB editor Wordpress/Pressbooks Aloha Mercury WYM
Potential Collaborators : Booktype
Possibilities: Use Booktype as a book editor and publish to Connexions Collaborate on TinyMCE as a structured editor Create conversions between CNX and Booktype and other
structured formats (DocBook perhaps) Collaborate on tools to create HTML, EPUB, Mobi, PDF
from single sourceScreenshot taken from http://booktype.org
Potential Collaborators : Siyavula
Image used with permission from Mark Horner's presentations on Siyavula.com
Building tools for teachers to collaborate and create open textbooks.
Potential Collaborators : AIMAmerican Institute of Mathematics
Collaborative Authoring Tool (for Mathematics Textbooks)
This image is taken from David Farmer of American Mathematics Institutes's talk at a workshop on collaborative textbook authoring.
Potential Collaborators: ConnexionsBuilding a whole textbook with drag and drop
Screenshot of a Connexions experimental adaptation of “Smallest Federated Wiki” https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki.
Potential Collaborators: Folks here!
Kathi Fletcher – Email me
Blog and Mailing Lists: [email protected], [email protected]
Project page:
code.google.com/p/oer-roadmap
Find Out More – Get Involved
Misc Image AttributionsGold medal - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ksiom, CC-BY-SA
Coffee Table Book – By User:Mattis (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Package - By GNOME icon artists (GNOME SVN / GNOME FTP) [GPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
Translation - By Jesse Burgheimer [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
Magnifying glass – By David Vignoni [LGPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
School room – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MrHarman – CC-BY-SA
Intelligent tutor – By Richard Wilson (died 1782) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Editing pencil - By Everaldo Coelho (YellowIcon) [LGPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
Blackberry phone : By Ricmoo at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons
