[Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks

Wed Dec 17 10:50:23 UTC 2014

There is no standard way (but there isn't a standard for OER content), but
you could say OAI is clone and fetch?
Then there is http://hapgood.us/tag/federated-wiki/
Or the post forking plugin for WordPress
Xerte Online Toolkits has the syndication option for sharing OER between
installs

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Barker, Phil A <Phil.Barker at hw.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
>  Once again with the emphasis...
> 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 Pat Lockley [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* 17 December 2014 10:33
>
> *To:* open-education at lists.okfn.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on
> Wikibooks
>
>   http://oerpub.org/tools/ ?
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Barker, Phil A <Phil.Barker at hw.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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