We all know that creating or adapting high-quality OER can be pretty difficult, but it doesn't have to be. OERPub and Connexions, as well as other partners, are working together to build a next generation open-source web editor, that helps authors create rich open educational resources (OER) from scratch or using their existing educational materials. These new tools make it easy to collaboratively create, adapt, and distribute OER so students can get them however students need them (print, web, computer, mobile tablet or phone, etc).
In this webinar, we will show of the latest advances in open education publishing technology as well as invite discussion about what authors need to create truly interactive learning content.
1. An OER Editor for the Rest of Us
User-friendly authoring and
an efficient production
pipeline for online, print,
and mobile
Kathi Fletcher
Ed Woodward
kathi.fletcher@gmail.com, ecw1@rice.edu,
2. Textbooks – expensive to
Textbooks – expensive to buy
produce
By Theodore Scott (Flickr: Look At That Booty) [CC-BY-2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
8. But, authors face technical
But authors face technical challenges
challenges
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David Wilbanks (CC-BY-SA bit.ly/Hksgqe)
commons.wikimedia.org
9. So we are building tools to
Write Once, Share Everywhere
Anything in Edit & Adapt Everything out
Formats in: Word,
OpenOffice
Google Docs, LaTeX
Web pages, blogs, slides
Problem Sets
Multimedia
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video
18. User friendly authoring
drag and drop examples, exercises, support all
learners with accessible images, tables, media
More info: bit.ly/editor-design
20. What makes this possible?
HTML5 format (language of the web)
Separate structure and style
Community : Components, APIs, Open
Source, Embeddable editor
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video
21. What makes this possible?
HTML5 format (language of the web)
Separate structure and style
Community : Components, APIs, Open
Source, Embeddable editor
– Connexions, Siyavula, OERPUB, Booktype,
Aloha
– Interest From
• Bookshare, VIBAL, Pressbooks, Polish
Foundation, and more
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video
Currently Development of education content is incredibly inefficient and moves at glacial pace . In the current system in the US, textbooks are updated only about every 5-7 years. Meaning that even though Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a minor planet in August of 2006 , some students are still being taught with books that reflect incorrect information. This inefficiency is especially pertinent in the fast moving areas of science and technology.
Currently Development of education content is incredibly inefficient and moves at glacial pace . In the current system in the US, textbooks are updated only about every 5-7 years. Meaning that even though Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a minor planet in August of 2006 , some students are still being taught with books that reflect incorrect information. This inefficiency is especially pertinent in the fast moving areas of science and technology.
Content is developed in a manner that does not reflect the interrelatedness of its topics to topics outside of its field. This makes it difficult for learners to connect the dots and explore content making discoveries on their own.
Where all the different topics are connected to and inform each other. And topics don’t exist in a vacuum.
iPad, android and other mobile devices It is even available on low-tech feature phones via a mobile web server. You can even purchase print on demand bound printed copies of the book through one of our POD partners. Case Study with Collaborative Statistics. Written by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean and foothills-de anza community college in California, The Maxfield Foundation bought the copyright from the author and gave it to Connexions. It was converted in 2008 and since then it has received over 4 million Uses to date on the web Like all content on Connexions the book is available on ipad/iphone/android PDF and website In-print for about $26.
iPad, android and other mobile devices It is even available on low-tech feature phones via a mobile web server. You can even purchase print on demand bound printed copies of the book through one of our POD partners. Case Study with Collaborative Statistics. Written by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean and foothills-de anza community college in California, The Maxfield Foundation bought the copyright from the author and gave it to Connexions. It was converted in 2008 and since then it has received over 4 million Uses to date on the web Like all content on Connexions the book is available on ipad/iphone/android PDF and website In-print for about $26.
Currently Development of education content is incredibly inefficient and moves at glacial pace . In the current system in the US, textbooks are updated only about every 5-7 years. Meaning that even though Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a minor planet in August of 2006 , some students are still being taught with books that reflect incorrect information. This inefficiency is especially pertinent in the fast moving areas of science and technology.