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# Establish a platform for discussion and debate among healthcare professionals | # Establish a platform for discussion and debate among healthcare professionals | ||
'''How does it work?:''' ''Summary of the design.'' | '''How does it work?:''' ''Summary of the design.'' I'm uncertain at this point if it's going to be a workspace for the collaborative authoring of a printed textbook, or an online "textbook" that makes use of the internet and communication tools to facilitate engaged learning among students. | ||
'''Similar projects:''' ''Write about similar projects or initiatives, how your project can learn from them and extend what the have done - or how you could collaborate. Know what others are doing!'' | '''Similar projects:''' ''Write about similar projects or initiatives, how your project can learn from them and extend what the have done - or how you could collaborate. Know what others are doing!'' | ||
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==Open Technology== | ==Open Technology== | ||
Uncertain about the best tool for collaborative authoring. Wikis (e.g. Mediawiki) clearly have the upper hand with the "collaboration" part, but aren't great for authoring/ formatting. I'm thinking it might be a good idea to use a wiki for creating content and then exporting the content to another platform to manage the editing? | Uncertain about the best tool for collaborative authoring. Wikis (e.g. Mediawiki) clearly have the upper hand with the "collaboration" part, but aren't great for authoring/ formatting a book. I'm thinking it might be a good idea to use a wiki for creating content and then exporting the content to another platform to manage the editing? Editing a book will involve a lot that a wiki couldn't handle efficiently, like specific annotation of various components. ''Does anyone know of an open source, distributed book authoring platform?'' | ||
A blogging environment would be useful to syndicate the progress of the project, and Twitter (or maybe a more secluded platform like [http://laconi.ca/trac/ laconica], seeing that Twitter is now mainstream) for pushing out relevant content. I'm thinking multiple streams of content e.g. having different blogs/microblogs for clinical content (and maybe even split that again into different subject areas), educational content, writing guidelines, etc. Contributors can then subscribe to the content areas that they specialise in. | A blogging environment would be useful to syndicate the progress of the project, and Twitter (or maybe a more secluded platform like [http://laconi.ca/trac/ laconica], seeing that Twitter is now mainstream) for pushing out relevant content. I'm thinking multiple streams of content e.g. having different blogs/microblogs for clinical content (and maybe even split that again into different subject areas), educational content, writing guidelines, etc. Contributors can then subscribe to the content areas that they specialise in. | ||
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It's also important to remember that this is about collaborative editing, not mere reproduction of book technology on the screen. | It's also important to remember that this is about collaborative editing, not mere reproduction of book technology on the screen. | ||
Although once again I come up against the idea of an authoring environment to create a traditional textbook, or an online book that uses technology to facilitate teaching and learning? Could it be both? | |||
==Diagram / Sketch== | ==Diagram / Sketch== | ||