[Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks

Wed Dec 17 11:43:07 UTC 2014

So Pat and Phil,

What would you say is the best way to progress with the handbook?

Marieke

On 17/12/2014 10:50, Pat Lockley wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto:open-education-bounces at lists.okfn.org>] on behalf of Pat
>     Lockley [patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>]
>     *Sent:* 17 December 2014 10:33
>
>     *To:* open-education at lists.okfn.org
>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>         <mailto:open-education-bounces at lists.okfn.org>] on behalf of
>         Marieke Guy [marieke.guy at okfn.org <mailto:marieke.guy at okfn.org>]
>         *Sent:* 17 December 2014 09:25
>         *To:* open-education at lists.okfn.org
>         <mailto: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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>>         mickfuzz [skype]
>>         @onefuzzyduck [twitter]
>>
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>>
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