Presentation e-Poster Session of Open Apps Project in EAIE Conference 2013. Description: Open Apps is an open knowledge platform developed by the Open University of Catalonia that shares the knowledge and expertise developed by the university in online higher education. An app to learn Japanese writing, a tool to efficiently manage several networks and IP addresses, and innovative methodologies to enhance mathematics comprehension are a few examples available on the site. This e-poster provides an opportunity to discover this educational resource.

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OPEN APPS
The new way to share the
educational know-how

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1. The framework

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What is knowledge?
There are 2 understandings about it
…we can see it as
an object
…we can see it as a
process

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Often, it is not a single element but a
combination of multiple pieces playing
together

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Also, knowledge can be open
Open
Access
Open Data
GNU

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So, it can benefit people around the world,
and it can be reused to creating new
knowledge in a continuous process

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It not only deals to share objects, the story is
also important
O
pen
A
ccess
Open Data
Actually, the true knowledge is the
account of one experience

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2. How does it work

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…in witch, “apps” are
the metaphor that
knowledge package
takes
http://open-apps.uoc.edu/index.php/en
Open Apps is an Open Knowledge website,
that take the form of an online “app store, …”

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Actually, one “open app” can be composed by
applications, experiences, services, products,
sequences of code, papers, manuals,
methodologies, or combinations of all this

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...They are all generated from processes of
innovation that have been taken place in the
UOC

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a) be innovative, meaning a
significant novelty and an
improvement in his field;
b) be interoperable, not being based
in endemic technological or
methodological solutions that can
only work in the original context;
c) be open and regulated by copyleft
licenses such as Creative Commons,
GPL, or GNU, allowing the free
utilization and modification by third;
d) and have been used before in his
initial context having obtained a
reasonable success.
Not any solution is appropriate to be part of Open
Apps. It is necessary to fulfill some
conditions:

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The objective is to put in touch people and
organizations around common interests, in a
bottom-up way

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3. About it

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Online from June 2012
20 Open Apps available
More than 300 interest request

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Working on…
…improving the back
office management
processes
…opening the
platform to students
works, incorporating
Final Degree Projects of
Computer Engineering
…publishing new Open Apps

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Xavier Mas
Marta Enrech
Innovation Program of Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
xmas@uoc.edu
http://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/index.
html
http://open-
apps.uoc.edu/index.php/en/