[Open-education] open-education Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13
Pat Lockley
patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 25 15:08:19 UTC 2014
I don't know if http://coursefork.org/ is old news, it is sort of a OER
github.
Idea being stuff can be broken up and put together all the time
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Megan Beckett <megan at siyavula.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, <open-education-request at lists.okfn.org>wrote:
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>> Today's Topics:
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>> 1. How can we get more discussion going on the Open Education
>> list? (Marieke Guy)
>> 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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>> Message: 1
>> 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?
>> Message-ID: <535A1F24.6060009 at okfn.org>
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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
>> LinkedUp<http://linkedup-project.eu/> Project Community Coordinator |
>> skype: mariekeguy | tel: 44 (0) 1285 885681 | @mariekeguy<
>> http://twitter.com/mariekeguy>
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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/
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