Problem

OER content is widely distributed over many sites and catalogues are generally teacher centric. Moreover, lots of the OER catalogues seem to be fairly teacher orientated.

A learner-centric OER space

I was thinking of providing something slightly more learner centric. Kids would be sent to a URL, which would have content displayed nicely for them. They could annotate it, highlight things or bookmark pages.

The system would world by indexing lots of content from the structured data that exists in many OER catalogues and other places such as Project Gutenberg. It would then focus on delivering content in a highly-readable, attractive manner. There would be also useful CSS for print and mobile devices.

Some other possibilities, to tie it into the classroom/learning process:

  • A teacher might like to create reading lists for his class. Like a Youtube playlist, but rather than whole books, need to be able to select page ranges.
  • Another teacher would like to provide questions for her students at each section.
  • One-shot authentication, to enable children to collaborate without the issues of sign in processes
  • Leaning management system friendly

www.opentextbook.org could become a place that syndicates lots of content in all the repositories and catalogues that already exist.

Examples

http://www.20thingsilearned.com/ is a great example of displaying ebook content in the browser, plus its code is open source code. One problem is that it is very HTML5-centric, meaning that it probably wont display very well on old browsers on old machines. behind

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edited 08 Jun '11, 04:02

Creative Commons is supporting a metadata initiative for learning resources https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27603

(08 Jun '11, 05:59) tim mcnamara

Ahh... seems to already exist (http://openlibrary.org/), albeit without the teacher/learner specific features.

(16 Jul '11, 10:00) tim mcnamara

Some sources of content/inspiration

Lists of sources of OER content

  • http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/OER
  • http://wiki.okfn.org/

Sources of well catalogued OER content

  • http://www.oercommons.org/
  • http://cnx.org/
  • http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

Major repositories

Related Projects

  • http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks
  • http://publicliterature.org/
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solved 03 Jun '11, 06:01

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edited 16 Jun '11, 08:44

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