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OER Tools Powwow
April 21, 2010
4/21/10 1OER Tools Powwow
Agenda
• Repositories overview• Introductions• Repositories details• Authoring features matrix• Adoption features matrix• Orange Grove direction• Who can help Orange Grove?• What other sharing can we do?• Next steps
Open licensed by Ebbys photostream http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/11409154_7d2291c372.jpg
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Goldilocks and the 13 Repositories: League Presentation 3/31/10
Artwork by Wordle
CC BY Licensed 2010 College Open TextbooksSlide 3
OCW Consortium is not really a repository
Lulu has only a small percentage of open textbooks.
Textbook media is free but not open.
• MERLOT• OER Commons• Student PIRGS• USG Share• College Open Textbooks• Advanced Technological Education• Applied Math and Science Educati
on Repository
Many lists are not repositories
Photo licensed for reuse by J T’s photostream
CC BY Licensed 2010 College Open Textbooks Slide 4
Today focus on five repositories
Organization Tool(s)
Florida Distance Learning Consortium Orange Grove and OG Texts Plus
Rice University Connexions Rhaptos
OCW Consortium Member Sites eduCommons
MITE NROC Hippocampus
Proposed AIMath Authoring Tool Collaborative Authoring Platform (CAP)
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Introductions
• Cathy Alfano, Robin Donaldson, and Susie Henderson of FDLC
• Kathi Fletcher, Connexions
• Daniel Williamson, UniqU
• Tom Caswell, OCW Consortium
• Terri Rowenhorst, NROC• David Farmer, AIMath• Rod Beezer, University of
Puget Sound• Barbra Sperling and Phil
Moss, MERLOT• Bill Buxton and Jacky
Hood, College Open Textbooks
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Type Textbooks, Resources, Courses, Ancillaries
Licensing Multiple
Disciplines Academic
Quality Very High due to UPF; some reviewed
Format Mostly PDF
Print options PDF, bound
Ease of use High for users; limited for modifiers
• Unique relationship with University Press of Florida
• Founder of OnCoReBluePrint inter-state sharing and model
• 100 collections• 165 textbooks
www.theorangegrove.org/open_textbooks.asp
www.upf.com
Orange Grove
Texts Plus
Slide 7CC BY Licensed 2010 College Open Textbooks
Type Textbooks, Resources, Courses
Licensing CC BY only
Disciplines Academic
Quality High; some reviewed
Format XML
Print options PDF, bound
Ease of use Students OK; adopters need training
• Funded by grants and consortium fees
• 16,151 modules in 991 collections
• Approximately 12 textbooks
http://www.cnx.org
Rice University Connexions
Slide 8CC BY Licensed 2010 College Open Textbooks
Type Courses
Licensing Custom* (cc by nc)
Disciplines All academic and most vocational
Quality Generally excellent
Format Varied; eduCommons
Print options Very limited
Ease of use Excellent; outstanding assistance to members
• Courses stored on a usually dedicated member site
• Grants and memberships* Use, reproduce, distribute,
translate and modify the Materials for educational, non-commercial, and non-monetary gain. Some trails lead to fees….www.ocwconsortium.org
Slide 9CC BY Licensed 2010 College Open Textbooks
Type Courses (not textbooks)
Licensing Custom
Disciplines Algebra, Biology, Calculus, Environment, Government, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, US History
Quality Outstanding
Format Media-Rich
Print options Limited
Ease of use Outstanding
• Free to individuals• Grant and fees• Institutions strongly
encouraged to join ($3K to $50K per year)
• Math classes also in Spanish
• New developmental math will be completely open and freewww.hippocampus.org
MITE NROCHippocampus
Slide 10CC BY Licensed 2010 College Open Textbooks
American Institute of Mathematics Proposed Tool
• Specifically for Open Textbooks
• Outgrowth of AIM projects
• Beta testing Unsolved Problems tool
Proposed Features• Collaborative Authoring; Versioning• Chapters, sections, subsections,
sidebars, photos• Simple graphical interface that supports
all of above• Support for both initial development
and edit-in-place for revisions• Multiple formats• Integrated workflow
CC BY Licensed 2010 College Open Textbooks Slide 11
Much more thoroughcomparison
• http://www.ocwconsortium.org/share/ocw-platform-comparison.html
• Thanks to Tom Caswell• EduCommons, Moodle, OU-Moodle, Sakai,
and Connexions• Infrastructure, Content Management, User
Management, Learner Tools, Assessment Tools
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Author Tools
Repository WYSIWYG Rights Choice
Workflow
Import Support
Supports Paid Content
Hidden content (for exams)
Other
OG Texts Plus Yes Yes Yes
Connexions Rhaptos
Yes No: CC BY only
Yes Yes No?
OCW eduCommons
Yes Yes Yes No? (I found some)
MITE NROC Hippocampus
Indirectly?
CAP (proposed) Yes Yes
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Adopter Tools
Repository Reviews On-screen Text
PDF Bound Copies
Versioning Modularity Drag &Drop
OG Texts Plus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Wants
Connexions Rhaptos
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
OCW eduCommons
No
MITE NROC Hippocampus
Some
CAP (proposed) Yes
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Orange Grove’sTool Goals
Features Needed__________________________________________
Who can help?__________________________________________
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What other sharing can we do?
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Next Steps
• Archive will be posted at the Event http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/events/by-invitation-oer-tools-powwow
• ___________________________________• ___________________________________• ___________________________________
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