[Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks

[Barker, Phil A]

I think the real problem is that there is no easy way to clone, fetch, pull between different OER platforms.

Phil



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From: open-education [open-education-bounces at lists.okfn.org] on behalf of Marieke Guy [marieke.guy at okfn.org]
Sent: 17 December 2014 09:25
To: open-education at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks

Definitely Mick!!

So from Wikipedia: " In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software. The term often implies not merely a development branch, but a split in the developer community, a form of schism."

Just to be clear that there is no schism here! But the Open Education Handbook was originally created as part of a project with project funding. That project has ended and there is no more money for me to push the handbook forward. However (hopefully) there may be a willing community who will want to reuse and build on the handbook.

So maybe it makes sense to put the handbook wherever the community is. Now there may be more than one community (ours, the OER community, the open source community, the Wikipedia community and so on...), so does this mean we should put it in different places? Or try to get the community to come to our one place?

These are questions I don't have the answer to (though I do have a personal opinion on) and I'd love to hear other people's thoughts.

Can the Wikibooks and the Booktype version run in parallel? Should we agree on a one definitive version that we push? Can we leave the situation to evolve naturally and see in which direction the community goes? What about language versions? How can this all be managed?

Thanks

Marieke



On 16/12/2014 19:48, Mick Clearerchannel wrote:

On 16/12/14 18:18, Marieke Guy wrote:


For info we have recently updated the main handbook page<http://education.okfn.org/handbook/> to be more like a splash page with links to different versions and editions. For anyone interested in the discussions  related to 'forking' a handbook I recommend watching the community session video<http://education.okfn.org/see-the-open-education-handbook-fly/> from last week - the discussion starts about 30 minutes in.


Perhaps we could have a conversation here about the merits / demerits of forking the handbook as is.

On first thoughts to me it seems a bit daft but I'm open to persuasion. :)

nice one
Mick

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