I'm thinking about it from the perspective of publishing the OER. A lot of OERs that we publish are sets of presentations provided as lecture notes for a course. I certainly appreciate the need for more interactive OERs. At Michigan a lot of the materials we have released have been used or are currently being used in courses and so we go with whatever the faculty member provides. Perhaps our publishing model, which uses students to go over the content and make sure we don't have anything copyright encumbered doesn't lend itself well to creating what are unarguably more easily discoverable, trackable and listable OERs. We do have a few faculty members who want to do the publishing and adapting work themselves, perhaps talking with them about using HTML5 to publish their content would be a good idea.
Perhaps I'm missing your point. In which case, my apologies.
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On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Anthony Clearn wrote:
>> ..the same feature set as something like Powerpoint. Whatever the feeling about PPT it is used by a great many authors of OER content.
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> I don't see why it should be necessary for an OER to originally be in the format preferred by a lecturer. Yes the lecturer uses a presentation slideshow, but surely that isn't too difficult to make one from a web page. It is likely that the student doesn't need the content in this format!
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> My point was that html5 could potentially make listing, finding and tracking OER easier as all the data could be in one file.
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