OER Tools Powwow

April 21, 2010

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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

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Goldilocks and the 13 Repositories: League Presentation 3/31/10

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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