The OERPub team is making it easy to create and edit OER and expanding the options for publishing and sharing content. Last year we created an importer that takes content from Word, Google Docs, and blogs and makes it remixable by unifying the formats. We then used simple software hooks to publish the content to repositories like Connexions. This year are adding an easy-to-use, open source document editor so that authors can create content from scratch or edit the content they imported. We are incorporating research-driven principles so that authors used to Word and Google Docs can still create beautiful remixable content. Rather than asking authors to learn complicated markup, we are using authors’ natural actions to provide just-in-time semantic choices and convenient templates for editing. We are expanding the options for sharing OER (while still keeping it remixable) by making it possible to publish to institutional repositories as well as other projects that provide structured publishing like Connexions, Siyavula, Booktype and Open University. The underlying editor is built collaboratively and intended for use by many projects. In this presentation we will unveil our design for a new collaboratively created open-source editor for OER and show how it can be used to create, edit, and publish content to OER libraries. We will highlight the research principles that were used to guide the editing experience and also show how other projects have participated with us and how new projects can get involved and incorporate the editor and adapt it for their content. The talk will be mostly non-technical focusing on the how and why, with pointers to the technical meat for reference.

1. Share Everywhere : Create and
Share Content with Legs
Open Ed, October 2012, Vancouver
Kathi Fletcher, Marvin Reimer
Photograph courtesy Joe Crawford (http://www.flickr.com/people/artlung/) under th Creative Commons Attribution License.

2. Our backgrounds
Kathi Fletcher : Shuttleworth Foundation
Fellow
OERPUB - An OER Roadmap for an Ecosystem
of OER - Tools for creating, publishing, and
remixing OER
Marvin Reimer : Lead Developer
OERPUB converter/importer/semantic
editor : Found project as Google Summer of
Code student converting Google Docs to
Connexions

3. Anything in
Formats in: Word, OpenOffice
Google Docs, LaTeX
Web pages, blogs, wikis
Problem Sets
Multimedia

4. Anything in Everything out
=> =>
Formats in: Word, OpenOffice
Google Docs, LaTeX Formats out: Web, Print,
Web pages, blogs, wikis eBook, Document formats for
Problem Sets handouts, Learning
Multimedia Management Systems

5. Anything in Everything out Everywhere
=> =>
Formats in: Word, OpenOffice Sharing: Connexions, Siyavula,
Google Docs, LaTeX Formats out: Web, Print, Booktype, OCW sites, Learning
Web pages, blogs, wikis eBook, Document formats for Management Systems
Problem Sets handouts, Learning
Multimedia Management Systems

6. Anything in Everything out Everywhere
=> =>
Amazon,
Apple,
Barnes and Noble,
Lulu etc.
Formats in: Word, OpenOffice Sharing: Connexions, Siyavula,
Google Docs, LaTeX Formats out: Web, Print, Booktype, OCW sites, Learning
Web pages, blogs, wikis eBook, Document formats for Management Systems
Problem Sets handouts, Learning Publishing: Amazon, Apple,
Multimedia Management Systems Barnes and Noble, Lulu etc.

7. Everything In – OERPUB Importer

8. Everything In : Word

9. Everything In : Word

10. Everything In: Wikipedia

11. Everything In: Wikipedia

12. Everything in: Google Docs

13. Everything in: Google Docs

14. Everything In : Web

15. Everything In : Web

16. Add Metadata

17. Publish

18. Everything Out (via Connexions now)
6/17/11

19. Hold On : Something big is missing!
Look, but don't touch.

20. Hold On : Something big is missing!
That is better – now we can adapt
Look, but don't touch.

21. Hold On : Something big is missing!
That is better – now we can adapt
Look, but don't touch.

22. OK – But is that just a web editor?
That is better – now we can adapt
Look, but don't touch.

23. Yes, but here is where we are going

24. Attracting authors
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Pleasing

Familiar

Simple things are simple
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Model like Word or Google Docs
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Learn by Doing

Complicated things are possible and you
can learn by doing, tools are visible

Immediate Rewards

Any additional work is immediately
valuable

25. Familiar : Just type, standard toolbar

26. Learn by doing: Drag to add an exercise
Click to view 2 minute movie on dragging to add (start at 23 seconds)

27. Learn by doing: Drag to add an exercise

28. Learn by doing:
Options show up in context

29. Learn by doing:
Advanced options available under
gear

30. Rewards: Navigate by element

31. Rewards: Linking
Click to see a 1 minute video on Navigation and Linking

32. Rewards: Thanks for accessibility

33. Rewards: Thanks for accessibility

34. Rewards: Thanks for accessibility

35. Power: Math Editing (Live Preview)
Click to view 2 minute math editing video

36. Attracting authors

Pleasing

Familiar

Simple things are simple

Complicated things are possible and you can
learn by doing, tools are visible

Immediate Rewards

Powerful

Edit once, deliver to learners on multiple
devices

Pays off

Deliver to popular repositories and channels

37. Important technical stuff

Open Source
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Open Format (HTML5 for Education)

Style and Substance! But strictly separate.

Modular/Customizable : Use the editor on
many different sites, pick and choose functions
and semantics

38. Participating Projects So Far

39. You can make it better:
Test the design!

We are testing the design here at Open Ed.

Come by C215. Make a difference for 15 minutes
and get some swag.

TODAY 2:00pm
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Tomorrow 1:30pm
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Thursday 10:30am
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Tell your friends also.

We will be tweeting times and locations using
#opened12

40. Find out more / Get involved
No seriously!
Email me:
kathi.fletcher@shuttleworthfoundation.org
Project: http://oerpub.org
Code: http://github.com/oerpub
Blog: kefletcher.blogspot.com

41. Image Attributions
Gold medal - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ksiom, CC-BY-SA
Coffee Table Book – By User:Mattis (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia
Commons
Package - By GNOME icon artists (GNOME SVN / GNOME FTP) [GPL
(www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
Translation - By Jesse Burgheimer [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-
3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), GFDL
(www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
Mouth - By Felsir at en.wikipedia [CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0) or GFDL
(www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons
Magnifying glass – By David Vignoni [LGPL (www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)], via
Wikimedia Commons
School room – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MrHarman – CC-BY-SA
Intelligent tutor – By Richard Wilson (died 1782) [Public domain or Public domain], via
Wikimedia Commons
Editing pencil - By Everaldo Coelho (YellowIcon) [LGPL
(www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
Blackberry phone : By Ricmoo at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia