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Open EducationPresenting the
Marieke Guy
Community Session, 11th December 2014
Handbook
OPEN EDUCATION
WORKING GROUP
• Lobbying Transparency
• Open Transport
• Open Sustainability
• Open Spending
• Open Science
• Personal Data and Privacy
• Public Domain
• Open Bibliography
• Open Humanities
• Open Access
• Open GLAM
• Open Design and
Hardware
• Open Linguistics
• Open Government Data
• Open Definition
• Open Archaeology
• Open Economics
• Open Development
• Open Product Data
• Open Education
Working Groups
Why a Working Group?Reasons for development of the group
● We wanted to see open data in education pulled into the wider
debate around open education
● Opportunity to bring together silos of activity: content and OER,
OEP, open policy, licensing, data, tools…
● Allow us to collaborate with people across sectors and globally –
get the bigger picture
● Where can open data in education lead? All possibilities still exist
● Community building compliments what we are doing
• Open data that
comes out of
education
institutions
• Open data that can
be exploited/used
by education
institutions
• Open research
data
Open Education Data
Open
Education
Working
Group
…established to bring together
people and groups interested in
open education. Its goal is to initiate
global cross-sector and cross-
domain activity that encompasses
the various facets of open
education.
http://education.okfn.org
Open Education WG
● Brings together people and groups interested in open education
● Wants to initiate cross-sector, cross-domain, global activity that
encompasses the various facets of open education
● Active mailing list and Twitter feed, activities are co-ordinated through
bimonthly working group calls
● Includes open data in education, open educational content, open learning
and teaching practices and open accreditation
● Just released ePub, PDF and online version of Open Education Handbook
People, projects and initiatives
http://education.okfn.org/
Transparent Working “Eat your own dog food”
● Website/blog
● Twitter feed
● Mailing list
● Working Group calls
● Membership charter
● Discussions on group mission
Open
Education
Working
Group
…established to bring together
people and groups interested in
open education. Its goal is to initiate
global cross-sector and cross-
domain activity that encompasses
the various facets of open
education.
Advisory Board
Open Education Around the World
Series of posts
• Greenland
• Japan
• United Kingdom
• Scotland
• Tanzania
• India
• South Africa
• Rwanda
• Holland …
General ActivitiesAreas of interest and ideas
● Community building – making contact
● OKFestival, July, Berlin – Open Education Smorgasboard
● Support for LMRI initiatives, standards, platform for Open
Standards work
● OER and small languages and cultures (multilingualism)
● Open Education language – making it appropriate for all
● Support for member activities e.g. Open Data Ireland booksprint
● Connections with local groups: Belgium, Finland, Brazil
OPEN EDUCATION
HANDBOOK:
SOME HISTORY…
Background
● LinkedUp Project: Handbook on Open Data in Education
● “Living document to reflect project learnings and findings, which will help
others, both during the project and beyond it”
● “Collaboratively written living web document targeting educational
practitioners and the education community at large”
● Focus broadened to ‘Open Education’
● Looked to Open Data handbook http://opendatahandbook.org/; the Data
Journalism Handbook http://datajournalismhandbook.org/; materials from
School of Data; OpenGLAM handbook
How the handbook came about…
Booksprint: London
http://education.okfn.org/open-education-handbook-booksprint/
Booksprint: Berlin
https://okfn.org/
Google docs > Booktype
http://booktype.okfn.org/
http://education.okfn.org/manual-de-educacao-aberta/
Translation to Portuguese
Slidewiki
http://slidewiki.org/deck/10559_open-education-handbook
Friday Chats
https://pad.okfn.org/p/Open_Education_Working_Friday_Chats
http://education.okfn.org/mailing-list/
Editing…
● September – October 2014 – Rob Farrow
● Typos and poor writing
● Universal style
● Fact spotting
● Citations and links
● Glossary and definitions
● 'What, Why, How' sections when relevant
● Scenarios when relevant
● Intro for target audiences when relevant
Also gains a cover!
October 2014
http://education.okfn.org/handbook/
The Handbook Today
THE LATEST VERSION
What is in it?By Rob Farrow
● Overview of content
● Reasons for current outline
● Possible improvements
● Ideas for the future
WHERE NEXT?
What can we do with…
● Reuse – chunk it up – share it out
● Continue to build on it – missing areas
● Create an annual update
● Embed within curriculum, MOOC or online course?
● Resurface content – new front end – search facility
● Tagging content
● Improve graphics & look of handbook
● How can it be maintained?
The Open Education Handbook
Discussions with…
● Wikimedia
● Wikibooks
● Floss manuals
● Any one else we should be talking to?!
Ideas on the boil…
