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description
OER APIs for Easier Content Creation and Greater
Shareability
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Connexions Conference 2012Kathi Fletcher
My background
Kathi Fletcher
Background :
Connexions PM and Technical Director 4 Yrs
Lessons: Do what you are best at. Empower the community to build an ecosystem.
Fellowship:
An OER Roadmap for an Ecosystem of OER
Technical plumbing for OER• concentrating on publishing
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Remixable Open Education
Repositories
What makes a repository remixable?
Modular : Reusable componentsPluggable : Editable, structured 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
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Repositories
OER API's What do we need?
1. Publishing / Retrieving / Transforming
APIs to get content in and out
2. Describing / Discovery
Metadata / Paradata
3. Content Format
Remixable
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Closing the Loop: Make publishing easy
PotentialEdit 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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OERPub: Based on SWORDSimple Webservice Offering Repository
Deposit
OERPub /SWORD /AtomPub
OERPub /SWORD /AtomPub
OERPub /SWORD /AtomPub
SWORD Clients and Servers
Adapted from Stuart Lewis and Richard Jones at OR11
Contributors
Adapted from Stuart Lewis and Richard Jones at OR11
For Developers: Libraries for Getting Started
Adapted from Stuart Lewis and Richard Jones at OR11
Connexions ImporterConvert, Preview, and Upload docs (word/oo/gdocs/blogs) to
Connexions and more
OER API's : Describe and Discover (Next breakout session)
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)
OER API's: Format
To be remixable
* structure separate from presentation
* relevant for education (exercises, examples, etc)
* remixable structures often transformable
Formats
* CNXML
* Docbook, DITA, eLML, wikipedia wiki
* HTML5 + microdata, EPUB3 + epub:type
Questions
Are the reusability conditions the right ones? (modular, pluggable/structured, cc-licensed, permanent)
Will other OER repositories implement OERPub?
What about format? Under what conditions will OER support structured formats (XML, semantic HTML)
What about metadata? (Well we will ask that in the next breakout session)
What other API's are critical?
Find out more / Get involved
Developer sprints tomorrow:
- rhaptos.org/wiki/Sprints/2012Sprint
Email me: kathi.fletcher@shuttleworthfoundation.org
Blog: kefletcher.blogspot.com
Project page: code.google.com/p/oer-roadmap
– Has links to publishing API, mailing list, projects
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
Lady Gaga : By Daniel Åhs Karlsson (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Moy Cars : http://www.ubergizmo.com/2009/04/lcd-infused-policarbonate-body-would-enable-customizable-car-designs/