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Open Content Interviews with Mary Lou Forward, David Wiley, Meena Hwang, Cathy Fletcher, Brad Felix and Joel Thierstein+ some session notes

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 Janet of Mozilla: rewriting stds in plain language
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+Open Content Studio
+Pathways to Open Content (12:14)
+Basement, gray carpet, 6 ppl including 2 doing something else
+Isn’t that what librarians do when they get a new book?
+The question is how do we od this in digital space
+You don’t want to alter the process of creating content too much
+Modify the tools so the produce the markup we’rel looking for it become s part of the job they don’t know they’re creating metadata
+Librarian is looking at OCW Course and able to classify w/ a folksonomy and taxonomy
+Amazon has figured this out better than anyone else for shopping
+Gives you brands, gives you dollars
+Producers of products has an incentive
+It’s a requirement when your’e adding products into the system
+Mary Lou: we need a few test cases
+Those are gg to come ot the top of everyone’s search list
+ Once pp lbegin to see that
+Yo udno’t want yr project not to be listed
+We can’t mpozse but here’s gg to be a self motivating mechanism in having this
+We have  decentalized system
+You have materials that live on more than one site
+Cnxns remix model but
+We ‘d like to see ppl be able to tak things from multiple places reuse and republish discovery revision and republishing
+Improve the search and discovery story use the exact same technology
+Translation I drew on THIS OCW course
+Jaroslaw Glasses guy: the way ppl interact w/ information they use a lot of technologies
+If I take some parto f the tt from connections and I use my tool of choice : NOTEPAD and then I upload it somewhere else all the metadata will be lost you canot really AUTOAMTE that
+We ened to force ppl to use particular tool we don’t want to do this b/c we do not want ppl to be less creative b/c the way you work on a wiki is v diff from the way you work on connexions
+Ali : U Michigan
+Embed metadata in images
+All of it won’t be lost even if somebody doesn’t choose to host you
+Tools of choices
+Track changes going away b/c everyone can edit the same document at the same time
+You dan’t have this case of I make this changes I email to you and you se what ‘s going on b/c ppl use etherpad, googledocs
+Low enrgy here
+So theoretical , abstract
+It can wash your dog for you but you don’t need it to wash yr dog
+Jaroslaw
+This is the way we innovate in general
+Don’t use tables for Layout they’re supposed to be about data contained inside
+Use CSS and proper HTML tags
+But ppl can still choose to ignore that and do it the “Wrong” way and we jusdt live w/ it
+ ppl still have the choice to use other tools if they want
+ i think the switchf rom "don't use tables use CSS" Is a failure of tech
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+Techsprint II
+or so instructors from UC Irvine and Carnegie Mellon
+Folks from OCW and FWK
+Think beyond open textbooks themselves
+Instructors want content they can plug in to open "courses"--larger scale
+FWK is the halfway point bw "textbooks" and "open courses" with web books that have interactive content
+Might change the "kind" of teaching folks do--might be the entry point into online courses for some instructors, since most are comfortable with a textbook
+Still need some way to navigate the course--you can't start Thermodynamics with a MIT OCW course, you can't jump in to a subject without knowing something about it
+Need to build open courses with some sort of assessment around it
+Adaptive?
+Different learning paces--some schools doing "4 in 3" years, using summers
+Does education include the social happenings on a campus?
+Does it include learning how to multitask and deal with the consequences?
+Publisher Takeaway:  Highly experienced and forward thinkers in this space are advocating for the true disaggregation of content into discrete learning objects, easily assemble-able into COURSES by professors.  This includes at least general assessments in the form of checkpoints throughout the course.  Adaptive is cool too.  There is still room for the publisher here in terms of curating the content, but revenue models remain unclear.
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+COuple of discussions: first was on OCW
+what's next
+what shd be done
+not really about sustainability
+no! it was just
+Brad FELIX: THE TXTBOOK IS DEAD
+the lesson learned is building content is really hard and not appealing
+the other theory is that everybody's still at OPEN ED
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+In this session the people gathered were from Open Courseware Consortium, Connexions, Flatworldknowledge and Kaizendo.org.
+Sveinn Sandvik Svendsen from Kaizendo.org presented the prototype of the Kaizendo tool to an audience of ~10. The feature presented was the basic user interface and the commenting system. Aspects (different versions of the text) was also explained to the audience.
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+Pathways to Open Content
+Connextions
+- How to find content – create a lens (schools start building lenses)  Can you  work collaboratively on a lens, if you share an account, one account that different people log on.
+Organizational account and can build all 3 lenses (members, affiliation and endorsement)
+Still coming.
+Flatworld – a new model for publishing, provide editorial and selling services.
+- Errors checking and curable. Find tenured professor and negotiate a contract. Content gets peer reviewed.
+- Printed copies possible
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