[Oer-community] OER formats (was Re: What is beyond mapping the OER intiatives?)

[Edward Cherlin]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Duda Nogueira <dudanogueira at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2) an OER standart - While I was writing the piece of software to pack the
> OER for redistribution, I then discovered that there's no pattern or file
> format standart whatsoever. This is a huge problem, as you cannot have a
> reliable way to know if the OER object is going to work on a big variety of
> platforms, or if the OER object is really Open (it might contain a Flash
> Piece of Software without the source).
>
> Possible Solution: Hire some great software developers to improve the Libre
> Office in order to accept Video, Audio (with subtitles), HTML5 animations,
> test and quizz with result return,etc, and make it the PERFECT OER authoring
> tool, and compliant with the ODF Alliance

You should also look at EPUB3 and Smalltalk/Etoys. We have 4 million
student users of Etoys on OLPC XOs so far. Etoys uses the Smalltalk
virtual machine to run on almost anything bit-identically.

I am currently working on an Etoys Reference Manual at

http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/_edit/

and intend to write Etoys By Example, showing how students can build
interactive OERs, right afterwards.

> Thank you!
>
> Duda Nogueira
> Gerente de Projetos em Tecnologia
> www.dudanogueira.com.br
>
> Celular: +55 31 9985-1271
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