[Open-education] Open Education Handbook available on Wikibooks

Wed Dec 17 13:48:18 UTC 2014

...and EPUB-WEB makes this even more attractive. http://w3c.github.io/epubweb/ my summary at http://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/initial-thoughts-on-epub-web-portable-documents-for-the-open-web-platform/

Phil

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On 17/12/14 11:33, Barker, Phil A wrote:

Yep, there are lots of platform dependent ways. Booktype, the platform that the handbook is hosted on at OKFN, has some support for cloning. But not everyone is going to use the same platform, and yes, there is no standard for OER content. By saying it was a problem I didn't mean to imply that it was solvable, and even if it is solvable won't be solved until the pain caused by forking is greater than the effort and sacrifices necessary to create and adopt a solution.

Did you mean OAI ResourceSync ? It's worth a look

Booktype does support cloning, but one key limitation is that is doesn't preserve information on who has made which edit to the book (perhaps that's asking a bit much at this stage).

My vote would be for epub to be the most likely candidate for an exchange format which would facilitate such a federated approach.
There is a bit written about the work we did on this for the Libre Graphics Research Unit here.
http://lowstandart.net/index.php?entry=entry120911-005039

Why epub? Well it's self-contained and export to epub is already supported by many online platforms for to allow reading on ereaders / tablets. For example Media wiki can do it.

It's importing where things become a bit more tricky.
However Pressbooks.com already allow you to import epubs into their writing platform based on Wordpress. And Booktype allows you to import epubs too.
There seem to be a lot of code libraries that allow for easy reading and conversion of epub so that's already a head start.

I'd love to see more research and practice based study on what a healthy interacting system of educational resources would look like in an accessible federated writing system.
I can imagine webs of teachers collaborating on resources, forking them for particular audiences and remerging the advances made.

nice one
Mick

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