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Infrastructure for Open Educational Resources at USP
Ewout ter Haar CEPA – Instituto de Física – USP
We are in a period of transition: a world of new possibilities
Digitization is revolutionary
Shirky: the web combines dissemination, comunication and collaboration. Benkler: Easy and ad hoc collaboration through lower transaction costs →peer production a viable alternative
The Web is the most successful information system in history
Use the Web and apply its lessons1. Give people tools to put stuff on the Web;2. build infrastructure that is distributed, neutral, open.
The Web is a platform on which great and innovative things are build rinse and →repeat
Give names to interesting things and connect them
The internet: IP and TCPIP; identify servers and connects them
a distributed and robust architecture, a neutral and open platform email, →IM, VOIP, HTTP, Bittorrent, etc. etc.
The web: URLs and <a href=””>, identify documents and connect them
a distributed and robust architecture, a neutral and open platform →unprecedented access to information, sharing, colaboration.
Give names to interesting things and connect them
So... Give names to important entities and build infrastructure to make connections between them
Then: don't interfere anymore and let innovation happen (on the edge of the network).
(“end to end” architecture)
Way forward: 1. social web (connect people) 2. semantic web (do for data what the web did for documents)
Stoa: an academic social network and learning environment
1. Share academic output on the Web: tools for making news URLs.2. Take control of digital identity on the Web
The social web at USP
Stoa: Learning EnvironmentLearning is a social process (besides a cognitive one)
An informal virtual space
Complementary to a course management system (LMS, virtual classrooms)
Complementary to a content management system
Virtual public spaces, over and above virtual classrooms
Tools for putting stuff on the webUpload files to your personal web space: simplest way to make use of web benefits
Create profiles, connect / “follow” friends and contacts (what is your personal network doing?).
Blogs and Forums: discussion spaces
Student blogs at university server: one of the first experiments worlwide.
Stoa Results
Reasonable uptake, especially among students, need more staff participation.
IPTV: Web VideoLive events and video on demand
Great institutional uptake
Next step: “community” contributions
efisica / ecalculo: structured content
Ecalculo: calculus course, 50k visits/month
Efisica: 12 textbooks, hundreds of pages, 200k visits per month
Infrastructure for OER resourcesHow should we organize our systems?
How do we get as much stuff on the Web as possible?
Centralized repositories?
“edupunk”, DIY, P2P, “just do it”?
Where should we be in the space defined by the axescentralized – distributed, application – platform,individual – collective?
Centralized vs Distributed
My take: federationRead Benkler on distributed architectures
Read Grewal as antidote
(beware of concentrating effects of networks: veryunequal distributions canresult)
Moodle as a federated OER repo
2. Use “OpenShare” module for Moodle to “put the power to control the license and release of resources and activities in the hands of the course creators.”
1. Use of common infrastructure strategy: We are creating a module to Integrate Moodle with USP corporate systems: one click course creation for teachers, automatic enrolment for students.
Allow groups (even ad hoc) to administrate their own repo / LMS.
Thank YouCEPA – Instituto de Física – USP
http://cepa.if.usp.brcoordinator: Prof. Gil da Costa Marques
Contact [email protected] e http://stoa.usp.br/ewout
Stoa: CTI, CEPA and Prof. Ewout ter Haar (coord.)
IPTV: Profa Regina Melo Silveira (coord.)
Efisica: CEPA and Prof. Gil da Costa Marques (coord.)
Ecalculo: CEPA and Profa Maria Cristina Barufi (IME)
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