ocwc12 15 minute fast talk on expanding the ecosystem for remixable oer

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

kathi.fletcher@shuttleworthfoundation.org

Blog and Mailing Lists: kefletcher@blogspot.com, oerpub-dev@googlegroups.com

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