Open Content Tool Lab
- Contact: Meena Hwang (meena at ocwconsortium dot org)
- Team: Brad Felix, Flatworld Knowledge, Meena Hwang, OCW Consortium, Joel Thierstein, Connexions
- Hosts: OCW Consortium, Flat World Knowledge, Connexions
- Status: confirmed
Summary
Demonstrate tools built around open contents and gather questions and feedback for further development. Identify common challenges for these tools and speculate on how to attack them.
What do you want to achieve?
- Demonstrate different applications for comparison and evaluation
- Brainstorm on what would be the ‘perfect’ picture for content management system, OER authoring tool, and derivative tracking system. Discuss how that can be done.
- Come up with guidelines for giving accurate recommendation for users with different needs
Who should come? How many? For how long?
- Techies, educators, learners, & anyone interested in technology used for open contents. Stay for as long as you can.
What will they do when they get there?
- Look at the summary card for each content management system. Try them out. Are they what they claim to be? Come up with as many suggestions as possible to make it better.
- Let’s take a look at Mr. Tech Phobe go through the process of publishing OER content. In that context, what would be the most ideal authoring tool? Try out existing tools and tell us what you think about them.
- We would really love to see how OER is being reused and repurposed for different context and classrooms. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have a list of authors automatically added to the document? Have any ideas on how this can be done? Come and talk with us.
- Tell us what technology would be valuable to further promote OER. Everyone can build on the ideas until it shapes up to be an idea worth executing.
What will you / they have at the end?
- For those of us at the tent: a thorough discussion on how we need to provide the OER community with better tools, networking with people with similar interests and willing to collaborate, and an exciting plan for a call for participation from FOSS community.
- Friends who come by: a chance to learn more about how to do things, a chance to collaborate on projects (and possibly avoid having redundant projects), and a whole lot of appreciation.