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Open_Education_Working_Friday_Chats Open Education Working Group Friday Chats

This etherpad is a place to drop in ideas for discussion topics for the Open education Working Group mailing list (http://education.okfn.org/mailing-list/) for a Friday Chat. The results of the chats will be tidied up and added to the Open education Handbook: http://education.okfn.org/handbook/

Dates

25 April - Breaking down OER & accessibility
2 May   - what is openness to you?
9 May - open education data
16 May - 
23 May - What are the differences between open (as in access) or open (as in participatory & contribution)? Which is the most important? Have we focused too much on access? - from a discussion on the open design list
30 May - open education data 
6 June - Is traditional education not open?
13 June - none
20 June - do we need open policy?
27 June - open education and privacy
4 July - Import lessons - how do you rebuild OER - tools
25 july Database of Open Education Courses
22 August - Is there still an OER movement?

5th September - What can the open education 'movement' and open education working group learn from other movements and working groups?
12th September - people's personal experiences of MOOCs. Do we practice what we preach? Or are MOOCs just something we deliver for other people? do you use MOOCs to support what you do? Have people had positive 
experiences connecting with communities in MOOCs? What about hybrid  approaches - has anyone participated in a MOOC and at the same time been  involved in a physical community supporting it? Are there people delivering MOOCs who fundamentally disagree with them as a form of open education?
19 September - Quantified student
26 September - Privacy and open education continued...
3rd October


Recently  had a great workshop in London on privacy and open data. The  mydata/open data working group has been thinking about the various  topics here too, where open information connects with privacy and  personal data topics, eg:

* opening up quantified self data about yourself and/or collected yourself
* privacy with respect to government data collection
* openness of public records including data about specific individuals
* privacy around personal data in scientific and medical research
*  open information about topics related to privacy or personal  information, for instance, open data about what information is collected  or how information is handled by institutions

 
Ideas - borrowed from Altc sig
 Discoverability of OER – How are they signposted? How can we find them?
·         Open advocacy – Why should we be ‘open’? Why use Creative Commons? 
o    This could possibly feed into a webinar on ‘CC for Dummies’
·         Institutional control of IP and copyright
·         How to engage senior management when it comes to openness and OER
o    Open Policy (bottom up rather than top down)
o    Barriers to open
·         Possibility of setting up a workshop for newcomers to the open/OER world
o    Call for guidance and services
o    This can become a resource for future reference
·         Reusing and repurposing
o    When reuse becomes a barrier
o    There are many case studies for reuse; we should aggregate them and create a directory
·         The relationship between OER and MOOCs
o    Why MOOCs and not OER?
·         Open16 – volunteers to host required!

Questions/Topics

Please add ideas below and we will allocate them a date



Discussion around Ways to Chat & Discuss

Fred: I like this idea a lot. I was also briefly part of a scholarly 
reading group based on openness that used Google +, but never really got  off the ground. The idea there was to propose a research paper and  collaboratively read and discuss it via a Google hangout. I think it is a  great idea and one I would like to resurrect once I finish with school.

I would love to take part in discussions around the  very questions you asked below, but would recommend considering starting  off with a more generic “what is openness to you” type question. For me  personally, this list at times seems very focused on OER, which is not  something I am into. However, creating a dialogue about the nature and  application of openness is something I think could lead to many  interesting conversations. I would love to discuss where everyone stands  on openness and learn more about how we think of it impacting our  professional roles. 

I also think Fridays are as good a time as any.

Tom: I think building discussions would be a great idea. Although email 
newsletters are not ideal for discussion they are very effective for 
keeping up to date with a lot of different strands of work that may or 
may not build into a conversation at times.

I would say that in order to help create more discussion it would be 
useful to try to create a schedule for the conversations, or a calendar. 
One with a few topics in advance that people have expressed an interest 
to discuss.

We could have it as an open Google doc to be edited and topics can be 
added, or with a survey online via email.

The questions from the Handbook look exactly like the kind of questions 
that would be well suited for a tweetchat on a topic. So that is another 
possible way to discuss ideas with tweets.

I am a fan of silent Etherpading. Just saying that one Friday is the day 
to drop some ideas onto an Etherpad and drop the questions onto it too 
(sending out the link on Friday). Then you can have a dedicated time 
organised to chat using the Etherpad chat function alongside. It is 
possible to talk also using Vidyo http://www.vidyo.com/ if you want to 
have a face to face alongside the Etherpad.

I like the idea of a fun Friday meeting, and it is always good to spread 
the discussion out in ways that it can be accessible both by people 
afterwards and also by people on twitter or just in text format or later 
on using the Etherpad.

It is also easy to annotate an Etherpad and to add to ideas people have 
already put down synchronously or asynchronously.

Andre: I'd opt for exporting calendar events as .ics
(https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/exporting-and-sharing-a-calendar#w_exporting-a-calendar-under-thunderbird-and-lightning)
and share them as attachment. Alternatively, it should be doable to
setup a WebDAV server on okfn.org (could you ask the technical teams,
Marieke)?

I won't follow links to Google Doc. Sorry. On the one hand it's the
wrong tool for it, on the other hand it's from Google. I'm pushing hard
to reduce my dependency from big companies.

Vidyo is proprietary and not available for my distro, though there's a
GNU/Linux binary, but it is Ubuntu-only.

Etherpad is not accessible for screenreaders (iframe in an iframe and
much JavaScript magic). Sadly. I don't have an alternative at hand either.

Claude: Andre, your point about accessibility for screenreaders is really important. Shouldn't access for all also be addressed in the handbook itself?
Also accessibility of multimedia.

However, concerning this Etherpad, I don't have a screenreader, but the Fangs screenreader emulating addon for Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fangs-screen-reader-emulator/ - does show the whole content of this pad. Is Fangs wrong?