It’s open education conference season! Many here are packing their bags for travel or getting ready to spend time virtually there for the 2024 Open Education Conference, October 8-10 in Providence, Rhode Island USA and online.
If you are presenting, please share your topic. If you are registered, are you willing to share here any highlights from this year’s conference? Have you attended the Open Education Conference in the past?
In the works is a special live conversation October 29 with members of the Open Education Conference Board to share their insights of this event and members of the planning committee for OEGlobal 24. It’s like “Two Conferences Walk into a Coffee Bar, What do they talk about?”
If anyone in Providence for the conference wants to be an onsite camera (via mobile phone), we could open an OEG Live session to get a peek into the scene there.
Perhaps at that 30 minute break after the last sessions on Tuesday the 8th, before the opening reception?? All we need is a willing volunteer to walk around and get people there to talk to the world.
Lots of great action at first morning of OpenEd 2024. Who’s there or virtually? What have you seen? If you want a great highlight by highlight stream, see the live posts by @AbbeyElder in Mastodon https://hcommons.social/@OpenAccessElder e.g.
The latter from the opening keynote by James Glapa-Grossklag & Joy Shoemate on Open Education As Resistance (recording shall be posted). A nod to @poritzj who crafted a logo
Actually, I am with the minority who believes that CC BY-SA 4.0 is a much better license for open ed work. In fact, it’s not as small a minority as I once feared: I’ve recently met many more folks who agree.
So, except where otherwise noted, anything I create is under CC BY-SA 4.0 (except software, which is under GPLv3).
(And you do realize you didn’t put an attribution statement on your post, Alan, so you are technically in violation of the BY part…) (Just pointing that out for its informative value, wearing my CC Cert facilitator hat… under whose brim I always say “It’s so easy to put attribution statements, it can become almost automatic!”)
It’s been updated with a more proper attribution! I admit rushing that, and it was some quick searching during the keynote as someone in chat asked for a copy.
And yes, always keep that attribution hat on. I hope you do notice that I strive to both attribute and provide alt-text for images I post here.
Make sure you see Jonathan’s extensive (and well attributed) share page https://poritz.net/jonathan/share/ again modeling excellent open education practice.
Much going on at OpenEd24 on day 2… ZOMG it’s half over!!! Might as well shill my own pre-recorded lightning talk, which is sputtering along with a sparking 20 view. Shrug. I think its great
This is more of a general overview of the need and the features of Kolibri, but also with some footage of how the online content, including H5P, can be made available offline.
This is maybe part 1 of 2 as we also are organizing a hands on workshop for OEGlobal 24 in Brisbane next month. My grand plan is to set up Kolibri on a Raspberry Pi, and thus when participants join its wireless network, they will not be connected to the outside internet. The hope is to give them a direct experience of how it works, and have conversations what it means to make OER available to the not insignificant offline parts of this globe.
Okay, I have never set up a Pi before, but Learning Equality has a great set of instructions that make it look easy. I’m also intrigued by Dan Mcguire’s remark about a capability to not only run Kolibri on the Pi, but also add Kiwix and maybe MoodleBox (am I being ambitious here??)
I’ve had a long running interest in these approaches going back to a thing I explored in 2011-2014 as the StoryBox.
I’m told, Alan, by people who speak Unix and can manipulate it (not me) that the best way to get Kolibri and Kiwix on the same Raspberry Pi with MoodleBox is to first install MoodleBox on the R Pi. Then, you could use the directions on this page to put Kiwix on the same R Pi. Then you use a similar process for putting Kolibri on the R pi. I think it’s a matter of creating a separate web page each on the Pi for Kiwix and Kolibri.
We plan on getting this written up so that a teacher that doesn’t know Unix could do it, but that’s going to take a bit of testing, writing, and editing, repeat.
The reason you would want to do this is to have all of Moodle’s learning activities, collaboration, and assessment features available to use with content on Kolibri and/or Kiwix in addition to MoodleNet and other available repositories. Moodle also has a lot of support and training available which applies to MoodleBox, too. This set-up makes the systems in areas without internet access easily replicable in places with internet. But, offline first.
I’m small scale staff…
