[Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks
Marieke Guy
marieke.guy at okfn.org
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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