[Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks

Wed Dec 17 11:32:15 UTC 2014

Thanks Theo - that's great!

Marieke

On 17/12/2014 11:05, theo kuechel wrote:
> Hi all  - for info
>
> I have added the Open Education Handbook" to the background reading 
> and resources section of the Open Content Toolkit I am developing; 
> http://opencontenttoolkit.wikispaces.com/Background+Reading
>
> I hope this may be of interest to some of you in the Open Education 
> community, feedback and critique  always highly welcomed. Please feel 
> free to join the wiki using code R49R74X
> Best regards
>
> Theo
>
> On 16 December 2014 at 16:39, Martin Poulter, Economics Network 
> <M.L.Poulter at bristol.ac.uk <mailto:M.L.Poulter at bristol.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all, this is to announce that the Open Education Handbook has
>     been copied here:
>     (save for a couple of images that I've yet to import)
>     https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Education_Handbook
>
>     In the process of making the Wikibooks edition, I have identified
>     some minor errors like typos and broken links. I'm making these
>     publicly available so that anyone hosting the book on any platform
>     can make the same fixes:
>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1un8_aCC6hJjcw_xiQHqEXq7PUas6lPe2bcNDJmsKU44/edit?usp=sharing
>
>     As well as corrections, the Wikibooks edition has an in-book
>     search facility as well as live-export-to PDF or to print-on-demand.
>
>     Wikibooks is
>     * a sister project to Wikipedia. User accounts on WP work on
>     Wikibooks, and the editing interface is the same.
>     * quieter than Wikipedia: no problem with trolls or hoaxers
>     * meant for manuals, how-tos, recipes and textbooks - less
>     constrained than an encyclopedia
>     * like all Wikimedia projects, truly free: reusable by anyone for
>     any purpose under CC-BY-SA and the GNU Free Documentation Licence
>     * massively multilingual. For example, there is a Portugese
>     Wikibooks at https://pt.wikibooks.org/
>     which could potentially host the translated version of the Open
>     Education Handbook.
>     * connected to Wikimedia Commons: any of WC's 24 million
>     open-content media files can be embedded in Wikibooks.
>
>     It's worth checking out the Featured books section of Wikibooks,
>     which already includes books on open educational practice, blended
>     learning, Library ICT and other topics:
>     https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Featured_books
>
>     I'd like to do more such imports, not just of books about
>     education, but suitable open textbooks and reference books. So if
>     I may appeal on behalf of Wikibooks, we're after:
>
>     * Other books/manuals licensed compatibly (CC-BY-SA or CC-BY) that
>     can be imported.
>     * Editors/proofreaders : just create an account, read the books
>     and correct any errors you find.
>     * Illustrators: find an existing image on Wikimedia Commons to
>     illustrate a Wikibook page, or upload freely-licensed images to
>     Commons.
>     * Other communities who want to collaboratively build a book
>     reflecting current knowledge on any topic (could be a group of
>     students on an assignment).
>
>     NB: Wikibooks content is supposed to be descriptive "how-to", not
>     a catalogue of web sites. Some OE Handbook sections are mainly
>     links lists, but I advise against that style.
>
>     You can normally get readership stats for any page on Wikibooks by
>     clicking "View History", then "Statistics", but that feature seems
>     to be down at the moment.
>
>     Hope the community finds this useful,
>     -- 
>     Dr Martin L Poulter
>     http://infobomb.org/
>
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>
> -- 
> Theo Kuechel
> Senior MirandaNet Fellow, Naace Fellow
> Consultant and researcher, digital literacies, visual learning open 
> content.
> theo.kuechel at gmail.com <mailto:theo.kuechel at gmail.com>
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