The LinkedUp Project will be creating an Open Education Handbook as one of its deliverables. The first step in this process is a one-day (10am – 4pm) booksprint to be held at C4CC, London on Tuesday 3rd September. During the booksprint participants will be involved in group discussions, constructing the table of contents, agreeing on chapter themes, negotiating with others on concepts and hopefully coming up with some agreement on basic definitions!

1. BOOKSPRINT
Open Education Handbook
MARIEKE GUY & MICHELLE BROOK
FACILITATED BY

3. • FP7 coordination and support action running from 1
November 2012 - 31 October 2014
LinkedUp Project
“Pushes forward the
exploitation and
adoption of public, open
data available on the
Web, in particular by
educational organisations
and institutions”

4. Project Partners
• Web site: www.linkedup-project.eu
• Twitter: @linkedupproject
• Hashtag: #linkedupproject
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/linkedupproject/

5. • A series of three competitions promoting the innovative use
of linked and open data in an educational context
• About finding ways to link and mash up educational and
cross-domain linked and open data to provide novel
applications and services for open and distance education
• Looking for educationally relevant demos, protoypes and
tools which use open or linked data
• Can use any open data (not just what is in the LinkedUp
catalogue) and open to all!
• Benefits: cash prizes; showcase ideas; networking
opportunities, develop for real world settings; kudos, work
with real data sets; data and development support
• Veni shortlist just announced
LinkedUp Challenge

6. Available Datasets
http://data.linkededucation.org/linkedup/catalog/
The Linked Education Cloud is a
repository/catalogue of Web datasets
relevant to educational applications. It is
provided according to the standard of the
Web of Data, and is constructed based on
input from the LinkedUp Community.

7. Open
Education
Working
Group

8. • Part of the sustainability of the LinkedUp project
• Want to “catalyse an active, diverse and well connected
community of content producers, metadata experts,
technologists and others in academia, data management
communities, publishing...”
• The working group is incubating (http://education.okfn.org)
• Includes a mailing list
• To be launched at OKCon at the open education panel
session
• Writing of the Open Education Handbook is one of the first
activities
WG

9. So what is open?
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone
is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it —
subject only, at most, to the requirement to
attribute and/or share-alike.”
http://opendefinition.org
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11. • The Open Education Handbook will be licenced under a Creative
Commons Attribution (Unported) v3.0 (Attribution CC BY)
• This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon
your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the
original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses
offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of
licensed materials
Licence

13. A Book Sprint brings together a group to produce a book in 3-5
days. There is no pre-production and the group is guided by a
facilitator from zero to published book.
There are three important outcomes from Book Sprints:
• Producing a book
• Sharing knowledge
• Team/community building
What’s a Booksprint
http://www.booksprints.net/

14. • Importance of real space collaboration and face-to-face working
• Encouraging discussion and brainstorming
• Begin with no preconceived ideas about what the book should be
• All voices are valid – try and avoid domination by individuals
• You should have ownership of the book
• Session to be strongly facilitated
There are five main parts of a Book Sprint (Dr D. Berry and M.
Dieter):
Elements of a Booksprint
1. Concept Mapping
2. Structuring
3. Writing
4. Composition
5. Publication

15. Timetable
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee and registration
10:30 - 10:40 Introduction to booksprints, LinkedUp and the
Open Education Handbook
10:40 - 11:00 Introduction to open education (Phil Barker, CETIS)
11:00 - 11:15 Warm up activity
11:00 - 12:30 Group work - brainstorming
12:30 - 12:40 Recap from morning. Group sentences.
12:40 - 1:00 Grab lunch! Walkround!
1:00 - 2:30 Group work – writing, content
2:30 - 3:45 Individual writing
3:45 - 4:00 Conclusions, feedback, next steps

16. We will cover:
1. Concept Mapping: development of themes, concepts, ideas,
developing ownership, what’s in and what isn’t in, audience,
definitions, etc.
2. Structuring: creating chapter headings, dividing the work,
scoping the book, adding in further links/related resources
etc.
3. Writing: distributing sections/chapters, writing
and discussion, but mostly writing.
4. Taking things forward – next steps
Our Mini Booksprint!

17. We have split you into 3 topic teams:
• Data
• Resources
• Pedagogy
Topic areas

18. Ideological confrontation

19. And remember… “Think left
and think
right and
think low
and think
high. Oh,
the thinks
you can
think up if
only you
try.”
Dr Seusstry!”
There are no
failures today
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakecaptive/3205277810/

20. • Write down a controversial statement that you either
agree or disagree with on a post-it note
• We’ll choose one statement
• You need to stand on the ‘invisible’ line: one end
stands for “I agree completely”, the other end for “I
disagree completely”
• Explain to the person next to you why you feel this
way
• Have you changed your mind? Share
Warm up activity: spectogram

21. • First 45 minutes: In your allocated groups write down ideas on
post-it notes:
o Audience for this topic
o Content for this topic
o Definitions needed
o Questions to be answered
o Challenges – what needs to change?
o Opportunities – what can be achieved
• 1 point per post-it note
• Second 30 minutes: Add these to the wall sheets
• Adjust , cluster and group post-it notes
• Write your 2 line sentence on your topic
Group work - morning

22. • In Google Docs start fleshing out the chapter/topic
you’ve been working on
• Think about:
o Other resources and projects
o Links
o Groups of people or individuals in this area
o Who could own sections?
Group work - afternoon
Pedagogy
http://bit.ly/oeh-pedagogy
Resources
http://bit.ly/oeh-resources
Data
http://bit.ly/oeh-data

23. • Individual or pair writing on the chapter you have
been assigned in Google docs
• Editing
Individual work - afternoon

24. • How did you feel the day went?
• How far along have you got with writing in your topic
area?
• What do you feel would be the best next steps?
Conclusions & next steps

25. • A big thank you to Adam Hyde at Booksprint.net for
his words of wisdom!
• Another thank you to our colleague Lucy Chambers at
the Open Knowledge Foundation for her feedback on
the day’s agenda
Acknowledgements

26. • For updates on the Open Education Handbook join
the Open Education Mailing list
(http://education.okfn.org)
• Marieke Guy – marieke.guy@okfn.org
• Michelle Brook – michelle.brook@okfn.org
A big thank you to you!!