**Problem** OER content is widely distributed over many sites and catalogues are generally teacher centric. Lots centric. Moreover, lots of the OER catalogues seem to be fairly teacher orientated. 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][1] 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][2] 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 [1]: http://www.opentextbook.orghttp://www.opentextbook.org [2]: http://code.google.com/p/20thingsilearned/

OER content is widely distributed over many sites and catalogues are generally teacher centric. Lots of the OER catalogues seem to be fairly teacher orientated. 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][1] could become a place that syndicates lots of content in all the repositories and catalogues that already exist. [1]: http://www.opentextbook.org

OER content is widely distributed over many sites and catalogues are generally teacher centric. Lots of the OER catalogues seem to be fairly teacher orientated. 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 www.opentextbook.org - Leaning management system friendly [www.opentextbook.org][1] could become a place that syndicates lots of content in all the repositories and catalogues that already exist. exist. [1]: http://www.opentextbook.org

OER content is widely distributed over many sites and catalogues are generally teacher centric. Lots of the OER catalogues seem to be fairly teacher orientated. 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 www.opentextbook.org could become a place that syndicates lots of content in all the repositories and catalogues that already exist.