Open EducationPresenting the

Marieke Guy

Marieke.guy@okfn.org

Community Session, 11th December 2014

Handbook

OPEN EDUCATION

WORKING GROUP

• Lobbying Transparency

• Open Transport

• Open Sustainability

• Open Spending

• Open Science

• Personal Data and Privacy

• Public Domain

• Open Bibliography

• Open Humanities

• Open Access

• Open GLAM

• Open Design and

Hardware

• Open Linguistics

• Open Government Data

• Open Definition

• Open Archaeology

• Open Economics

• Open Development

• Open Product Data

• Open Education

Working Groups

Why a Working Group?Reasons for development of the group

● We wanted to see open data in education pulled into the wider

debate around open education

● Opportunity to bring together silos of activity: content and OER,

OEP, open policy, licensing, data, tools…

● Allow us to collaborate with people across sectors and globally –

get the bigger picture

● Where can open data in education lead? All possibilities still exist

● Community building compliments what we are doing

• Open data that

comes out of

education

institutions

• Open data that can

be exploited/used

by education

institutions

• Open research

data

Open Education Data

Open

Education

Working

Group

…established to bring together

people and groups interested in

open education. Its goal is to initiate

global cross-sector and cross-

domain activity that encompasses

the various facets of open

education.

http://education.okfn.org

Open Education WG

● Brings together people and groups interested in open education

● Wants to initiate cross-sector, cross-domain, global activity that

encompasses the various facets of open education

● Active mailing list and Twitter feed, activities are co-ordinated through

bimonthly working group calls

● Includes open data in education, open educational content, open learning

and teaching practices and open accreditation

● Just released ePub, PDF and online version of Open Education Handbook

People, projects and initiatives

http://education.okfn.org/

Transparent Working “Eat your own dog food”

● Website/blog

● Twitter feed

● Mailing list

● Working Group calls

● Membership charter

● Discussions on group mission

Open

Education

Working

Group

…established to bring together

people and groups interested in

open education. Its goal is to initiate

global cross-sector and cross-

domain activity that encompasses

the various facets of open

education.

Advisory Board

Open Education Around the World

Series of posts

• Greenland

• Japan

• United Kingdom

• Scotland

• Tanzania

• India

• South Africa

• Rwanda

• Holland …

General ActivitiesAreas of interest and ideas

● Community building – making contact

● OKFestival, July, Berlin – Open Education Smorgasboard

● Support for LMRI initiatives, standards, platform for Open

Standards work

● OER and small languages and cultures (multilingualism)

● Open Education language – making it appropriate for all

● Support for member activities e.g. Open Data Ireland booksprint

● Connections with local groups: Belgium, Finland, Brazil

OPEN EDUCATION

HANDBOOK:

SOME HISTORY…

Background

● LinkedUp Project: Handbook on Open Data in Education

● “Living document to reflect project learnings and findings, which will help

others, both during the project and beyond it”

● “Collaboratively written living web document targeting educational

practitioners and the education community at large”

● Focus broadened to ‘Open Education’

● Looked to Open Data handbook http://opendatahandbook.org/; the Data

Journalism Handbook http://datajournalismhandbook.org/; materials from

School of Data; OpenGLAM handbook

How the handbook came about…

Booksprint: London

http://education.okfn.org/open-education-handbook-booksprint/

Booksprint: Berlin

https://okfn.org/

Google docs > Booktype

http://booktype.okfn.org/

http://education.okfn.org/manual-de-educacao-aberta/

Translation to Portuguese

Slidewiki

http://slidewiki.org/deck/10559_open-education-handbook

Friday Chats

https://pad.okfn.org/p/Open_Education_Working_Friday_Chats

http://education.okfn.org/mailing-list/

Editing…

● September – October 2014 – Rob Farrow

● Typos and poor writing

● Universal style

● Fact spotting

● Citations and links

● Glossary and definitions

● 'What, Why, How' sections when relevant

● Scenarios when relevant

● Intro for target audiences when relevant

Also gains a cover!

October 2014

http://education.okfn.org/handbook/

The Handbook Today

THE LATEST VERSION

What is in it?By Rob Farrow

● Overview of content

● Reasons for current outline

● Possible improvements

● Ideas for the future

WHERE NEXT?

What can we do with…

● Reuse – chunk it up – share it out

● Continue to build on it – missing areas

● Create an annual update

● Embed within curriculum, MOOC or online course?

● Resurface content – new front end – search facility

● Tagging content

● Improve graphics & look of handbook

● How can it be maintained?

The Open Education Handbook

Discussions with…

● Wikimedia

● Wikibooks

● Floss manuals

● Any one else we should be talking to?!

Ideas on the boil…

Marieke Guy

Marieke.guy@okfn.org

Twitter @mariekeguy