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
An Online Presentation About Offline OER: The BCcampus Open Collection Meets Kolibri is co-presented with my colleague Harper Friedman at BCcampus on our efforts to make some 80 OERs from the BCcampus Open Collection available in places of low/no internet connectivity with Learning Equality’s Kolibri.
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.