Any chance of making sure accessibility and ease of use is in the mix for the day? Open Textbooks are great as more will have access to them but I feel there is then the greater responsibility to make this ease of access move in the direction of offering a personalised approach to reading - options for the way one reads the content whether with magnification, larger fonts, different coloured backgrounds or speech output etc. If Onix accessibility metadata (http://idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/content/meta/onix.php) is accepted as part of ePub3 it should be in there anyway.
Sorry to add to your list but hopefully you will not have to mention it!
Many thanks.
Best wishes
E.A.
Mrs E.A. Draffan
WAIS, ECS, University of Southampton,
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From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Phil Barker
Sent: 14 January 2013 15:56
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Subject: eTextBooks and OER
Hello all,
I would like to let you know that on Wednesday I am going to a meeting that aims "to bring together stakeholders with an interest in new standards for e-textbooks for learning, education and trainings"--see http://etextbookseurope.eu/?q=launch
I shall be representing the OER point of view at this meeting, and do so in the belief that it goes beyond (and is more interesting that) Open Textbooks. A quick outline of what I have in mind is this, any comments etc. would be welcome:
OER: Hewlett & Capetown definitions. CC licences. cf. open educational practice (and poss cf MOOCs)
eTextBooks: I hope the education / pedagogic issues that are fundamental to e*Text*Books, will be dealt with in rest of meeting/activity so I don't want to do much more than maybe mention that they include multimedia, dynamic & adaptive content; direct deep linking/embedding, social connections, a life cycle that allows for remixing and republishing (i.e. all that stuff we talked about 15yrs ago when promoting web for elearning)
eTextBooks as OERs: fairly simple, I think. Need to avoid assumptions that eTextBook will be paid for. Need to be able to express CC licences.
Need technology that permits what is allowed by licence (e.g. format that is portable, editable, disaggregable) Also helps if it supports what is required by licence (e.g. keeps attribution when copied/edited...)
OER in eTextBooks: well, what is the OER that might go into an eTextBook? From UKOER, tends to be existing content: word / PDF, .ppt, lecture capture / recordings, anything. Not much emphasis on standards:
interest in HTML5, not so much on eLearning Standards (for content)
Commercial eTextBook and OERs: what commercial publishers want in order to allow content they own to go into OERs (= attribution, linking back to what they sell, mixed licensing, time limited, ability to track usage and impact [thank you Suzanne / PublishOER]). Pearson Project Blue Sky (build your own etextbook out of OER and paid-for Pearson content)
I tried to keep that brief, I hope it is not completely indecipherable.
If you would like me to expand on any point just let me know.
Phil
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