Its All Coming Apart

Some of the things linked to or referred to in the course of the presentation:

Rick Prelinger:


 * http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger


 * Example of educational content remixed from source: Rick Noblenski: Blasting Caps Expert and Wiki Advocate


 * Harper's article - A world in three aisles: Browsing the post-digital library (Subscription required)


 * Blog post: On the virtues of preexisting material


 * http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/objects/archives/042507.html


 * Glenn Gould on Originality

"The arrogance of creating new content" - there are dozens of WordPress tutorial screencasts on YouTube

David Wiley, Openness, Localization, and the Future of Learning Objects

From that, three steps toward open education.

Step One: Open and discoverable resources

If I can't find it, it's no use to me or anyone else.

A flashback to LO repositories.


 * EduSource Communication Layer
 * LorInteroperability

Or, if you are open, you can use Google Co-Op's Custom Search Engine. - example


 * Out of Print: Proposal
 * OpenContentDIY

An aside: on-site hosting is an expensive, cumbersome pain, and puts you in constant battle with inexhaustible scum of the web

How much can institutions let go of? Scott Wilson suggests "user-owned technology" actually promises "an escape route from escalating costs, liabilities, etc… that come from supply-driven model."

And the plethora of external tools is amazing. Check out Alan Levine's Web 2.0 Gems, and 50 Ways to Tell a Story

Step two: open and transparent licensing

Open licensing as key to convincing educators to open up. The structure, simplicity and yes the aesthetics of CC has been an invaluable tool for promoting openness.

New abundance: Flickr advanced search, Google advanced search

What I tell people about Creative Commons, and what I'm not really telling them.

Dark side - incompatibility of licenses

The Non-Commercial clause - what about http://www.ediblelandscapes.ca? (see http://tothequick.wordpress.com/)

Exploitive corporate scum love CC http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/archives/042331.php

But what about the counter-example of YouTube?


 * a creepy license, but:
 * embed code (ohhh, how I love embed code)
 * a built-in mixer, in addition to 3rd party tools such as Mojiti, other online video editing tools.

Step Three - remixable formats


 * The glory of RSS


 * http://www.netvibes.com, Darfur Pageflakes, Cromson Connect


 * blog post to WebCT Vista


 * http://leap.ubc.ca embed code on page for text to any context


 * http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/openlearndaily/ just one piece of yumminess from Tony Hirst


 * We ignore RSS at OUr peril - ""Blatantly disregarding the potential for using RSS feeds to revolutionise the way we make content available to our students so that they can study it where they want it and when they want it is a risky strategy."


 * http://www.ocwinmotion.com/, Pedro's Presentation


 * Open edu mashup for high school biology

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Mashups

Mashup editors: Pipes, QEDWiki, Google Mashup Editor, Popfly


 * Mashups for non-programmers


 * [http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/010119.html Hirst} again, "Data literacy? I think we should want some of that... And disposable apps? We're all going to need to be our own developer..."


 * Client side tools: Scott Leslie's wonderful screencast, and recommendations: "In my mind, OERs will really start to succeed when they can augment our experience of the learning space that is the entire internet, instead of sitting off to the side and requiring learners to self-identify that they want an OER."