On Apr 19, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Anthony Clearn wrote:
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> From what I can gather is that .ppt, .pdf, etc., are not the ideal format for OER.
> Would it be a good idea to make it a standard that an OER must be html5? Would this not make life easier for developers and managers and in time teachers / lecturers.
> If the presentation software was replaced by say http://www.aloha-editor.org/ IMO it shouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility to expect everyone to use that format.
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> With html5 couldn't the editor be made (perhaps an OER plugin) to automatically use <del> and <ins> tags to track changes made to a resource.
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> What reasons are there not to use html5?
Availability of familiar authoring tools. Aloha editor is very promising, but doesn't quite offer the same feature set as something like Powerpoint. Whatever the feeling about PPT it is used by a great many authors of OER content. At Open Michigan we have received Keynote files from people who don't like Powerpoint and some PDF generated from LaTeX source, but haven't really seen much HTML 5 or Javascript + HTML yet. I know that even before html5, there were very rich presentation frameworks for generating slideware in html, but I haven't seen much uptake from people who aren't software developers.
I wonder if we'll see people doing this within Google Docs because it has a presentation app, which allows simultaneous editing and also allows people to make their own copies of the material for editing.
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Ali Asad
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