[Open-education] How can we get more discussion going on the Open Education list?

Fri Apr 25 09:41:46 UTC 2014

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

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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

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