[Open-education] Friday Chat: Re: Import Lesson

Fri Jul 4 10:25:20 UTC 2014

I think any version control is going to be too hard for widespread adoption

http://coursefork.org/ had promise (a wysiwyg git editor)
Kathi Fletcher's OER ePUB editor is based on github too
OpenStax and Connexions had forking abilities

Problem is, evidence for remixing is pretty small (because it is based on
reuse and there isn't much evidence for that) so it is hard to know how
software can solve it.

I think (with no evidence but gut instinct) that most reuse is linking

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:

>  Of course!! No need for me to agree it!
>
> So this builds on the 'Can OERs be broken down into elements?'
> <http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/can-oers-be-broken-down-into-elements/>section
> in the handbook - and 'how can we continue to build on OERs?'
>
> The post (import lessons
> <http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/04/import-lesson.html>) that
> Raniere references makes some valid points:
>
>
>
> *"And then there's the maintenance problem. Software Carpentry's lessons
> are constantly evolving; how can someone who depends on them know whether
> everything they require is still there a year or two down the road? With
> software, they can recompile their program or re-run its unit tests and see
> whether things still work. There's no equivalent for lessons—no easy way to
> find out whether dependencies that used to resolve are still there. Sooner
> or later, any large, multi-author project has to find a way to track and
> manage dependencies. Conversely, I believe that if a project can't do this,
> it won't be able to scale up. It isn't the only obstacle to collaborative
> lesson development, or the biggest, but it is an obstacle, even within
> Software Carpentry itself. If we can figure out how to solve it, we'll be
> one step closer to helping all the potential Lorena Barbas out there create
> a network of wonderful lessons.*"
>
> Raniere's solution is to use Git or Mercurial.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Marieke
>
>
>
>
>
> On 04/07/2014 00:56, Raniere Silva wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> did you already thought about a tool that let you import open educational
> resources from someone else and build you own resource on top of it?
>
> I wrote some thoughts about it athttp://blog.rgaiacs.com/2014/07/02/import_lesson_is_possible.html and love to
> get feedbacks.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Raniere
>
> P.S.: If Marieke agree this could be this week Friday discussion.
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