InternationalTelecommunicationUnion

Sep, 2008

Inclusive applications for Education

Empowering Educators and Learners

Objectives – Tues session 1

Provide you with basic wiki editing skills

Introduce you to the WikiEducator community

About this training Initial lessons only of the Learning4Content

series

Copies of the lesson notes for full course on the server

Instructions how to follow upSelf learning tutorialsGuided free L4C courses from OERFJoin the WikiEducator Google Group

About the WikiEducator

All of the following Collaboration tool for educators An OER A portal for a large growing community

Launched by Commonwealth of Learning Now hosted by OER Foundation of NZ

About the WikiEducator

WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:

planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;

development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;

work on building open education resources (OERs) and on how to create OERs.

networking on funding proposals developed as free content

Special features

Pedagogical templates Books and publishing tools Interactive features such as Quiz Can export as SCORM/IMS and

import into Moodle

Learning4Content

Lesson 1-4 By the end of this you will:

Have an accountHave created a user pageUnderstand basic wiki text editingBe able to do some formatting,

linking, adding media, etcKnow how to continue!!!!

Objectives – Tues session 2

Brief intro to OER movement

OERs and applications from the OLPC movementOLPPC XS School Server (demo/hands-on)Sugar on a Stick (install/hands on)

Wi-Fi Broadcast system (demo if time allows)

Introduction to OERs

Open Educational Resources

Definitions Origins The 4 Rs Open licenses The Cape Town Declaration Famous OER Projects

Definitions

“digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research”

OERs are all of:Digitised materials, freely available, reusableTools and softwareBest practices and projectsOpen licenses

Reuse - verbatim copies

Redistribute - share copies

Revise - make adaptations

Remix - combinations / mashups

The 4Rs

Openness in Education TED Talk – David Wiley

Origins

OER mentioned in 2002 in UNESCO workshop Two major OER projects started at same time

WikipediaMIT OpenCourseWare

And accelerated in 2007 with : Cape Town Declaration OpenCourseWare Convention

Why OERs?

Government OERs expand access to learning Esp non-traditional groups of learners Efficient way to promote lifelong learning Bridge gap between formal and non-

formal

Why OERs?

Institutions Altruistic – sharing knowledge Obliged to leverage taxpayers money Quality Productivity

Why OERs?

Educators (and individuals) Altruistic reasons Personal professional advancement Joining to OER movement and learning

the skills is immensely empowering Free sharing is a good business model

Offers easy to use 4Rs licenses

Check the “Copyright Statement” or “Terms of Use”! Without a CC license

you will (likely) not have 4R permissions.

Free = Open

Some OERs and other free resources

Adult education, technical, vocational OCW Consortium MIT OpenCourseWare (Thai courses available) Global Health Learning UNESCO Open Training Platform WikieducatorRepositories http://www.repository.ac.nz/Schools Skoool.com UNESCO ASEAN SchoolNet Moodle in Schools (NZ) WikieducatoreBooks WikiBooks Gutenberg project

The OER Handbook

A WikiEducator project http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook

On the server

Activity – Sugar on a Stick and OLPC’s XS School Server

An open educational resource that is a tool and an activity, for collaborative, creative learning

Sugar on a Stick Derives from the OLPC movement

Some background first

Five core principles

1.child ownership*2. low ages3. saturation4.connection5. free & open source* PLUS COMMUNITY

PARTICIPATION

Origins in constructivist learning theory...

think of: “learning by doing”... “discovery learning”“active learning”....

The programs on the laptop are called activities. There are many activities associated with reading, writing, language and literacy, science, maths and measuring, creating, music, painting, photography, video and recording, and educational games. Also programming activities specially designed for the young. Importantly, information resources from the server and Internet are accessed via the browser.

Creative , collaborative, joyful learning

Sugar Labs now develops the Sugar user interface and learning software for children

http://sugarlabs.org

Sugar on a stick – you can even boot Sugar and the Activities from a flashdrive...

http://sugarlabs.org

Demo of XO

One Laptop per Child

The XS - School Server

“The Internet in a box”“School and community electronic library”

One Laptop per Child

XS School Server

A set of software (based on Linux - Fedora) which provides:A Network GatewayCentralized school services including

Moodle LMS (Learning Management System)

Content services

hardware platform depending on power and student numbers

Typical example

Remote underserviced communities

Rural primary schools with no power

“Moodle in a box” – simple way to deploy Moodle

Wi-Fi broadcasting to community

• 30 students per AP• Power over Ethernet where possible• Solar powered sites run on 12V

The XS Moodle Learning Management System

How to get and install the XS

Documentation on the server

One Laptop per Child

The XS - School Server

QUICK DEMO

One Laptop per Child

Activity – Sugar on a Stick

An open educational resource that is a tool and an activity, for collaborative, creative learning

Sugar on a Stick Derives from the OLPC movement

SOAS

Where to get the latest SOAS imagehttp://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick

Need LiveUSBCreator https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

USB format tool http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk

Installing

Install LiveUSBCreator

Prepare Flashdrive (we have done this for you on the one provided)note: use FAT

Run LiveUSBCreator with the latest SOAS image

Running SOAS

Warning- development versions

Boot priority

Latest version needs a helping hand booting (press shift key and enter “linux0” at prompt)

Install other XO activities when running

Laptops provided, wireless not detected

Can be run locally, no Internet costs

All based on open source, no licensing costs

A great way to make local content available more freely

A highly localised portal

Access on your mobile phone (Wi-Fi needed)

A Wi-Fi Broadcast System

Wi-Fi Broadcast System

Installation instructions on server Ubuntu 10 + LAMP

MySQL

WordPress + mobile plugin

Dnsmasq

Installation easy with Aptitude

Can use a high-gain omni