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/