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

Mon Jul 7 14:15:14 UTC 2014

I think the problem has two parts to it. The first part is to provide
a tool that is easy to use. The second part is to teach the user more
about the medium they are using. Without the second part I feel that
we are just providing tools and not empowering educators.

The questions for me becomes - in what way do you teach more about the
medium without distracting from the short term goal of
creating/remixing some content and without intimidating the user too
much?

Cheers
d

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Mick Clearerchannel
<mickfuzz23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/07/14 00:05, Raniere Silva wrote:
>> suit his/her needs. E.g. for a K-8 teacher a WYSIWYG editor is better
>> but for a math high education teacher LaTeX can be preferable and for
>> a engineering high education teacher IPython Notebook.
>
> Oh yes the MathML issue -
> Is that addressed by using the Aloha editor? This post seems to indicate
> so.
>
> http://aloha-editor.org/blog/2012/08/wysiwhat-aloha-editor-selected-as-oerpub-sourcefabric-booktype-editor/
>
>> This is another reason that I want avoid that users deals with EPUB or
>> any other zip format. From my personal experience, if you give to
>> "Alice" an EPUB and to "Bob" the content of it as a directory/folder
>> and ask they to re-use one image in another document, "Alice" probably
>> will use a screenshot because the EPUB editor don't allow to export
>> the image (and "Alice" don't know that she can unzip the EPUB and pick
>> the image) and "Bob" probably will browser the directories/folders to
>> see what file he can find.
>
> Quick question on this.  How would you get the directories and files to
> Bob to browse if it isn't in a zipped format.
>
> nice one
> Mick
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