[Open-education] open-education Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13
Megan Beckett
megan at siyavula.com
Fri Apr 25 13:07:20 UTC 2014
Hi everyone
Thanks for challenging us Marieke :)
I actually just put some thoughts down this morning and thought it tied in
really well to what Tore said about OER being closed from an accessibility
perspective. I think this is very true, and I was thinking of it from a
slightly different perspective. I propose that when
creating/authoring/aggregating OER/open textbooks for reuse, the final step
should then be to disaggregate it into its component parts to allow for
easy and accessible remixing (ie. make up then break up!).
You can read more about it here:
http://meganbeckett.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/oer-make-up-then-break-up/
Here is an image I made to illustrate it graphically: (not sure if this
will come through on the mailing list, but it's on my blog)
And, if you don't want to go through the whole blog post, you can just have
a look at our Siyavula photostream, where I have put all of the
illustrations I had commissioned for our Natural sciences books, the photos
I took, and the concept maps I created. This is my first step to "breaking"
our open textbooks down again to make them more accessible for remixing. I
hope everyone will benefit from all of these CC-BY science illustrations
and concept maps!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/121935927@N06/sets/
Kind regards
Megan
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> 1. How can we get more discussion going on the Open Education
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> 2. Re: How can we get more discussion going on the Open
> Education list? (Tore Hoel)
> 3. Making OERs more accessible was Re: How can we get more
> discussion going on the Open Education list? (Marieke Guy)
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> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:39:00 +0100
> From: Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org>
> To: open-education at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [Open-education] How can we get more discussion going on the
> Open Education list?
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> It would be great to start having more discussion on the Open Education
> Mailing list - especially on a Friday!
>
> I was wondering if people have any ideas on ways we can do this...
>
> So for example we could have a Friday question. Here are some possibles
> from the Open Education Handbook
> <
> http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/why-write-an-open-education-handbook/
> >.
>
> * Is traditional education not open?
> * What affect does open education have on education?
> * Who is meant to benefit from open education?
> * Must a resource be in an open format to be open?
> * Is a MOOC an OER?
> * What examples of open learning and practice methods are there?
> * What is the difference between open education and open learning?
> * What is open education data?
> * What open source open education tools are there?
>
> Or Friday could be our day when everyone posts an update about a project
> they are working on, or an initiative they are involved with. Or even
> reposts interesting stuff from other working groups. Naturally it
> doesn't just have to be Fridays!
>
> I'm sure you all have some great ideas. This is your working group and
> it would be great if we could all get talking more!
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Marieke
>
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> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:41:46 +0000
> From: Tore Hoel <Tore.Hoel at hioa.no>
> To: "open-education at lists.okfn.org" <open-education at lists.okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [Open-education] How can we get more discussion going on
> the Open Education list?
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> I like your Friday challenge, Marieke!
>
> Today I'm attending a Norwegian conference on digital learning resources
> organised by the Directorate for Education and Training - and the OER
> perspective is badly missing, I have to say. The pretext for this
> conference is concerns for the small subjects and small user groups that
> need government support to publishers to develop educational materials. Up
> till now, the money has gone to commercial publishers, with closed
> resources as a result.
>
> However, also OER can be closed, seen from an accessibility perspective.
> In the conference, a student with a hearing problem asked for notes,
> manuscripts, anything that could make it easier to text video clips. Oobs,
> here we have a lever that could be used to break the closed resources and
> improve OER. And in addition also help adoption of OER in small languages
> and cultures. To achieve this, we need to have a hard talk on tools and
> infrastructures for authoring OER.
>
> I have blogged about it on www.nordicoer.org<http://www.nordicoer.org>
> http://nordicoer.org/adopting-oer-less-used-languages-need-hard-talk-tools-infrastructure/- and I will use this a input to my short intervention in the LangOER
> meeting in Oslo on Monday
> http://nordicoer.org/international-workshop-policy-oer-less-used-languages/
>
> My conclusions are the following:
>
> >From a technical point of view we should start to look at OER more as
> data than as finished learning objects. We need access not only to the
> semantics encapsulated in the distributed files; we need access to the raw
> data. Then we should look outside the box and see what the Open Data
> community is doing to support exchange of source files to whatever
> interesting stuff you find in analysis and reports.
>
> Have a nice weekend!
>
>
> -Tore
>
> -----
> Tore Hoel
>
> Head Advisor, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
> www.hioa.no<http://www.hioa.no>
> Tore.Hoel at hioa.no<mailto:Tore.Hoel at hioa.no>
> +47 48189005
> Skype: odintorloke
> Twitter: @tore
>
>
> Coordinator NordicOER - Creating a network for sharing Open Educational
> Resources in the Nordic countries
> nordicoer.org<http://nordicoer.org>
>
>
>
>
> On 25 Apr 2014, at 10:39, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org<mailto:
> marieke.guy at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> It would be great to start having more discussion on the Open Education
> Mailing list - especially on a Friday!
>
> I was wondering if people have any ideas on ways we can do this...
>
> So for example we could have a Friday question. Here are some possibles
> from the Open Education Handbook<
> http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/why-write-an-open-education-handbook/
> >.
>
> * Is traditional education not open?
> * What affect does open education have on education?
> * Who is meant to benefit from open education?
> * Must a resource be in an open format to be open?
> * Is a MOOC an OER?
> * What examples of open learning and practice methods are there?
> * What is the difference between open education and open learning?
> * What is open education data?
> * What open source open education tools are there?
>
> Or Friday could be our day when everyone posts an update about a project
> they are working on, or an initiative they are involved with. Or even
> reposts interesting stuff from other working groups. Naturally it doesn't
> just have to be Fridays!
>
> I'm sure you all have some great ideas. This is your working group and it
> would be great if we could all get talking more!
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Marieke
>
> --
>
> Marieke Guy
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> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:08:36 +0100
> From: Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org>
> To: open-education at lists.okfn.org
> Cc: Terry McAndrew <Terry.McAndrew at heacademy.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Open-education] Making OERs more accessible was Re: How can
> we get more discussion going on the Open Education list?
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> Thanks Tore for embracing the challenge!
>
> With regard to accessibility I think you have highlighted a two pronged
> approach:
>
> *Firstly *ensuring that the provision of content and services is
> 'available in a manner most suitable to the user, no matter what
> disability they may have, in order for them to fully participate with
> it'. We now have something about this in the handbook
> <
> http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/is-open-content-accessible-to-those-with-disabilities/
> >
> courtesy of Terry McAndrew from JISC TechDis. The suggestions is that
> "accessibility is not a process of fine tuning, it's a design principle"
> - so you need to take steps early on. Some ideas include thinking about:
>
> * Challenges: What would challenge those with visual or hearing
> impairments, motor difficulties or print impairment? How might
> alternatives be provided?
> * Issues: How were disabled people included in user testing? What were
> the situations that arose that required consideration and the
> decisions made to ensure the resources remained accessible? Did
> user-testing give valuable feedback?
> * Benefits: How did accessibility improve during the project? What
> wider benefits might this bring (e.g. accessing on a mobile device,
> or benefits to ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
> students, or enhanced usability)?
>
> *Secondly* the idea of thinking of OER as data (which I really like) -
> so here you are touching on the Open Educational Ideas
> <http://www.idea-space.eu> work - thinking about repurposing by sharing
> ideas early in the design process " this process will create a
> fundamentally different uptake of OER by creating Emotional Ownership of
> OER."
>
> I wonder how we can take the idea of OER as data one step further? You
> mention the open data community - we have people involved on the list
> maybe they have ideas?!
>
> Incidentally did people spot that P2PU have just released data from
> their MOOC <http://info.p2pu.org/2014/04/08/beware-data-on-the-loose/>s,
> one of the first to do so I think.
>
> Marieke
>
>
> > I like your Friday challenge, Marieke!
> >
> > Today I'm attending a Norwegian conference on digital learning
> > resources organised by the Directorate for Education and Training -
> > and the OER perspective is badly missing, I have to say. The pretext
> > for this conference is concerns for the small subjects and small user
> > groups that need government support to publishers to develop
> > educational materials. Up till now, the money has gone to commercial
> > publishers, with closed resources as a result.
> >
> > However, also OER can be closed, seen from an accessibility
> > perspective. In the conference, a student with a hearing problem asked
> > for notes, manuscripts, anything that could make it easier to text
> > video clips. Oobs, here we have a lever that could be used to break
> > the closed resources and improve OER. And in addition also help
> > adoption of OER in small languages and cultures. To achieve this, we
> > need to have a hard talk on tools and infrastructures for authoring OER.
> >
> > I have blogged about it on www.nordicoer.org
> > <http://www.nordicoer.org>
> >
> http://nordicoer.org/adopting-oer-less-used-languages-need-hard-talk-tools-infrastructure/-
> > and I will use this a input to my short intervention in the LangOER
> > meeting in Oslo on Monday
> >
> http://nordicoer.org/international-workshop-policy-oer-less-used-languages/
> >
> > My conclusions are the following:
> >
> > /From a technical point of view we should start to look at OER more as
> > data than as finished learning objects. We need access not only to the
> > semantics encapsulated in the distributed files; we need access to the
> > raw data. Then we should look outside the box and see what the Open
> > Data community is doing to support exchange of source files to
> > whatever interesting stuff you find in analysis and reports./
> >
> > Have a nice weekend!
> >
> >
> > -Tore
> >
> > -----
> > Tore Hoel
> >
> > Head Advisor, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
> > www.hioa.no <http://www.hioa.no>
> > Tore.Hoel at hioa.no <mailto:Tore.Hoel at hioa.no>
> > +47 48189005
> > Skype: odintorloke
> > Twitter: @tore
> >
> >
> > Coordinator NordicOER - Creating a network for sharing Open
> > Educational Resources in the Nordic countries
> > nordicoer.org <http://nordicoer.org>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 25 Apr 2014, at 10:39, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org
> > <mailto:marieke.guy at okfn.org>> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >> It would be great to start having more discussion on the Open
> >> Education Mailing list - especially on a Friday!
> >>
> >> I was wondering if people have any ideas on ways we can do this...
> >>
> >> So for example we could have a Friday question. Here are some
> >> possibles from the Open Education Handbook
> >> <
> http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/why-write-an-open-education-handbook/
> >.
> >>
> >> * Is traditional education not open?
> >> * What affect does open education have on education?
> >> * Who is meant to benefit from open education?
> >> * Must a resource be in an open format to be open?
> >> * Is a MOOC an OER?
> >> * What examples of open learning and practice methods are there?
> >> * What is the difference between open education and open learning?
> >> * What is open education data?
> >> * What open source open education tools are there?
> >>
> >> Or Friday could be our day when everyone posts an update about a
> >> project they are working on, or an initiative they are involved with.
> >> Or even reposts interesting stuff from other working groups.
> >> Naturally it doesn't just have to be Fridays!
> >>
> >> I'm sure you all have some great ideas. This is your working group
> >> and it would be great if we could all get talking more!
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Marieke
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Marieke Guy
> >> LinkedUp <http://linkedup-project.eu/> Project Community Coordinator
> >> | skype: mariekeguy | tel: 44 (0) 1285 885681 | @mariekeguy
> >> <http://twitter.com/mariekeguy>
> >> The Open Knowledge <http://okfn.org/>
> >> /Empowering through Open Knowledge/
> >> http://okfn.org/ | @okfn <http://twitter.com/okfn>| OKF on Facebook
> >> <x-msg://12/%3Fhttps://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork%3F> | Blog
> >> <x-msg://12/%3Fhttp://blog.okfn.org%3F> | Newsletter
> >> <x-msg://12/%3Fhttp://okfn.org/about/newsletter/%3F>
> >> http://remoteworker.wordpress.com <http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> open-education at lists.okfn.org <mailto:open-education at lists.okfn.org>
> >> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-education
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> >
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