[Open-education] open-education Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13

Sat Apr 26 21:05:05 UTC 2014

Hi,

Nice blog and figure Megan. I agree with your statement about OER and to need to break them up, e.g. to re-use and re-purpose them for different settings.

At OpenupEd we apply an open licensing policy not only to educational content. This goes beyond OER. At this moment the OpenupEd partners are discussing to possibilities to apply open licensing to a complete MOOC. I.e. 
- Open licensing of course material (OER)
- License on tests/exams
- License of educational software in the course platforms (open software)
- License on data and content produced in MOOCs (open data + open license to content / ideas produced by MOOC participants)
- License complete course(design)
Such that a complete online course can be break down into pieces for re-use in different settings (e.g. languages, cultural setting, local case studies, etc.). But this is a hard one also for HEIs already long involved in OER. And it might take some time to be effective. Any suggestions / tips from subscribers of this list are welcome.

In the end it comes down to the reasons why we also should apply an open license to all course components including the overall design. And that for institutions (and some academics) it also comes down to the 5th R: Retain. See also blog of David Wiley introducing 5Rs (See http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 )

And yes André, we must advocate a decentralised (and free & open) alternatives. At OpenupEd we are trying to embrace that, while other MOOC players are trying to globalise/centralise it.

Best wishes,
Darco

> Op 25 apr. 2014 om 23:39 heeft "Andre Jaenisch" <ryunoki at openmailbox.org> het volgende geschreven:
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> Am 25.04.2014 15:07, schrieb Megan Beckett:
>> Hi everyone
> 
> Hello, Megan, hello list.
> 
> Well, a challenge. Let's see, whether I figure out, how to read all
> those messages :)
> 
>> 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.
> 
> When speaking about accessibility, I always wonder, whether people have
> humans with disabilities in mind or are speaking about how much a
> resource is reachable on the web. Maybe we need another term for the
> latter one.
> 
>> 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 mentioned LaTeX in your blog article. Well, it's possible to embed
> extern content in LaTeX, too. For example, in my thesis I load the code
> from outside into my document (with highlighting and everything). Same
> holds true for CSV files, which I visualise in LaTeX internally. So it's
> possible, to offer raw data for crunching outside the final document.
> 
> In terms of accessibility, LaTeX is (sadly) a bad choice as it is hardly
> possible to compile a Tagged PDF (proof me wrong, if it changed!). The
> upside is, .tex is always human readable in opposite to, say, a .docx (I
> would prefer .doc over .docx for cross compatibility whenever doable).
> One has to decide, which point is more important.
> 
>> 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)
> 
> It came. As attachment. But, please, let me remind you, that attachments
> cause traffic on the servers so it's discouraged to do so.
> At least for mailing lists.
> 
>> 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/
> 
> Here it becomes interesting.
> Recently I'm thinking much about decentralisation (since one hacker
> named it “broken by design” - but that's another story).
> What do you do, if Yahoo! (owner of Flickr) goes down one day? Or shuts
> down? Every internet giant falls. The past teached us this lecture.
> So isn't it more prudent to trust in decentralised (and free & open)
> alternatives? Say, GNU MediaGoblin: http://mediagoblin.org/
> Sure, Flickr is famous. I'm using it too for my blogs. But especially
> Africa is known for mesh networks. I'm surprised they aren't pushed in
> your example!
> 
> I'm for redundancy. Decentral networks encourage that. Just some food
> for thoughts.
> 
>> Kind regards
>> Megan
> 
> About 20 Minutes to midnight!
> 
> Have a nice weekend :)
> 
> 
> André
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