Open Textbooks : Creation and Remixing Made Easy

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09-2012Kathi Fletcher

My background

Kathi Fletcher

Fellowship:

An OER Roadmap for an Ecosystem of OER

Tools for OER• concentrating on

authoring and publishing

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Remixable Open Education

Repositories

What makes a repository remixable?

Modular : Reusable componentsPluggable : Editable formatShareable : CC licensePermanent : You can count on it

Repositories

Remixability:Learn anywhere

EPUB/E-Book

Web/Online Accessibility Tools

PDF/Print

Library photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

OER APIs Greater Shareability

Edit / Translate.

Publish, Compile, Accredit Learning & PracticingTools

Transform

Repositories

Pluggability is hard to support, though

Authoring remixable OER is too hard right now

Make it easier•1) Grow the developer community solving the problem by providing API•2) Create an importer/editor that is as easy as Word.

OER Pluggability (Components)

Description

* Dublin Core, Learning Objects Metadata

* LRMI, Schema.org

* Paradata (description through deduction)

Discovery Methods

* OAI-PMH : Getting metadata about and locations of resources in repositories

* Embedding in web pages (rdfa, microdata)

Remixable Formats

* CNXML, OUXML

* Docbook, DITA, eLML, wikipedia rst

* HTML5 + microdata, EPUB3 + epub:type

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Closing the Loop: Make publishing easy

Edit and translate and then publish to repositories.

Create tests and use questions from open banks.

Ecosystem tools convert and transform.

With simple publishing, new OER from big initiatives can be shared and remixed.

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Closing the Loop: OERPub / SWORD V2

OERPub /SWORD

OERPub

OERPub

OERPub

Transform open teaching materials to remixable format

+ =>

OERPUB Importer Client Convert and Publish

Wherever the learning is – start there.Word → Remix

Wherever the learning is – start there.Word → Remix

Wikipedia → Remix

Wikipedia → Remix

Google Docs → Remix

Google Docs → Remix

Web → Remix

Web → Remix

Add Metadata

Publish

6/17/11

Deliver Everywhere

Next Steps – Building an OER editor

Engage developer community

Target HTML5 + Educational Semantics

Use just-in-time author training and smart context

Design to be easy to useand still create remixable OER

Drag to add an exercise

Drag to add an exercise

View is clean

Options show up in context

Advanced options available under gear

Navigate by element

Math Editing (basic but useful)

Rewards for content structure

Participating Projects So Far

Find out more / Get involved

Email me: kathi.fletcher@shuttleworthfoundation.org

Blog: kefletcher.blogspot.com

Image AttributionsGold medal - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ksiom, CC-BY-SA

Coffee Table Book – By User:Mattis (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Package - By GNOME icon artists (GNOME SVN / GNOME FTP) [GPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

Translation - By Jesse Burgheimer [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Mouth - By Felsir at en.wikipedia [CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0) or GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons

Magnifying glass – By David Vignoni [LGPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

School room – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MrHarman – CC-BY-SA

Intelligent tutor – By Richard Wilson (died 1782) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Editing pencil - By Everaldo Coelho (YellowIcon) [LGPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

Blackberry phone : By Ricmoo at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons