This presentation highlights interoperability and tools for creating and remixing open textbooks. The talk discusses ways to make publishing OER easier by implementing common methods for publishing, and then gives an early look at a new authoring tool for OER.

1. Open Textbooks : Creation and Remixing
Made Easy
09-2012
Kathi Fletcher
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under th Creative Commons Attribution License.

2. My background
Kathi Fletcher
Fellowship:
An OER Roadmap for an
Ecosystem of OER
Tools for OER
• concentrating on
authoring and
publishing

3. Remixable Open
Education Repositories
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under th Creative Commons Attribution License.

4. What makes a repository
remixable?
Modular : Reusable components
Pluggable : Editable format
Shareable : CC license
Permanent : You can count on it

5. Web/Online Accessibility Tools
EPUB/E-Book
PDF/Print
Repositories
Remixability:
Learn anywhere
Library photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

6. Edit / Transform
Translate. OER APIs
Greater Shareability
Repositories
Learning &
Publish, Compile, Accredit Practicing
Tools
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. Closing the Loop: Make publishing easy
Edit and
translate and
then publish to
repositories.
Create tests
With simple publishing, new
Ecosystem and use
OER from big initiatives can
tools convert questions from
be shared and remixed.
and transform. open banks.
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under th Creative Commons Attribution License.

10. Closing the Loop: OERPub / SWORD V2
OERPub /
SWORD
OERPub OERPub
OERPub
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under th Creative Commons Attribution License.

11. Transform open teaching materials
to remixable format
+ =>

12. OERPUB Importer Client
Convert and Publish

13. Wherever the learning is – start there.
Word → Remix

14. Wherever the learning is – start there.
Word → Remix

15. Wikipedia → Remix

16. Wikipedia → Remix

17. Google Docs → Remix

18. Google Docs → Remix

19. Web → Remix

20. Web → Remix

21. Add Metadata

22. Publish

23. Deliver Everywhere
6/17/11

24. Next Steps – Building an OER editor
Engage developer community
Target HTML5 + Educational Semantics
Use just-in-time author training and smart context

25. Design to be easy to use
and still create remixable OER

26. Drag to add an exercise

27. Drag to add an exercise

28. View is clean

29. Options show up in context

30. Advanced options available under gear

31. Navigate by element

32. Math Editing (basic but useful)

33. Rewards for content structure

34. Participating Projects So Far

35. Find out more / Get involved
Email me:
kathi.fletcher@shuttleworthfoundation.org
Blog: kefletcher.blogspot.com

36. Image Attributions
Gold 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