open apps: the new way of sharing educational know-how
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Presentation e-Poster Session of Open Apps Project in EAIE Conference 2013. Description: Open Apps is an open knowledge platform developed by the Open University of Catalonia that shares the knowledge and expertise developed by the university in online higher education. An app to learn Japanese writing, a tool to efficiently manage several networks and IP addresses, and innovative methodologies to enhance mathematics comprehension are a few examples available on the site. This e-poster provides an opportunity to discover this educational resource.TRANSCRIPT
EAIE Conference. Istanbul 2013
OPEN APPSThe new way to share the
educational know-how
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1. The framework
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What is knowledge?There are 2 understandings about it
…we can see it as an object
…we can see it as a process
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Often, it is not a single element but a combination of multiple pieces playing
together
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Also, knowledge can be open
Open Access
Open Data
GNU
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So, it can benefit people around the world, and it can be reused to creating new knowledge in a continuous process
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It not only deals to share objects, the story is also important
Open
Acces
sOpen Data
Actually, the true knowledge is the account of one experience
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2. How does it work
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…in witch, “apps” are the metaphor that
knowledge package takes
http://open-apps.uoc.edu/index.php/en
Open Apps is an Open Knowledge website, that take the form of an online “app store, …”
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Actually, one “open app” can be composed by applications, experiences, services, products,
sequences of code, papers, manuals, methodologies, or combinations of all this
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...They are all generated from processes of innovation that have been taken place in the UOC
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a) be innovative, meaning a significant novelty and an improvement in his field;
b) be interoperable, not being based in endemic technological or methodological solutions that can only work in the original context;
c) be open and regulated by copyleft licenses such as Creative Commons, GPL, or GNU, allowing the free utilization and modification by third;
d) and have been used before in his initial context having obtained a reasonable success.
Not any solution is appropriate to be part of Open Apps. It is necessary to fulfill some conditions:
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The objective is to put in touch people and organizations around common interests, in a
bottom-up way
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3. About it
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Online from June 2012
20 Open Apps available
More than 300 interest request
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Working on…
…improving the back office management
processes
…opening the platform to students works, incorporating Final Degree Projects of
Computer Engineering
…publishing new Open Apps
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Xavier MasMarta Enrech
Innovation Program of Universitat Oberta de [email protected]
http://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/index.html
http://open-apps.uoc.edu/index.php/en/