21-COP-0016_Using the Open Source Collaborative Model for the Development, Delivery and Curation of Digital Educational Content

About this project

<p>The advance of the Internet has shattered the old-order educational paradigm where teachers were the almost exclusive owners of knowledge and best practices. In the new-order educational paradigm, information is one click away: knowledge and best practices are readily available for the eager student in the form of digital educational content.<br> The one-click-away availability of digital educational content is a challenge for teachers, who must now relinquish their role as knowledge keepers and focus more on mentoring, providing insights and motivating students. Even so, skilled teachers will have to structure, update, adapt the content to the needs of their students. We argue that current digital educational content has flaws that hinder its better use by teachers and students alike: it is closed, unstructured, general, static, non-practical and non-reproducible.<br> Open-Edu proposes to revamp the development, delivery and curation of digital educational content by taking in the mindset, best practices and ideas from one of the most successful new-order ventures: the open source collaborative model. Open-Edu aims to use the open source collaborator model for the development, deployment and curation of digital education content. The new digital education content will be public, customizable, dynamic and up-to-date, practical and reproducible. Content consumption (in the form of exercise drills) and content contributions (improving existing content, adding new content) will provide educational cryptocurrency to students; educational cryptocurrency can be used to acquire digital and physical goods for educational benefits.<br> &nbsp;</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

The advance of the Internet has shattered the old-order educational paradigm where teachers were the almost exclusive owners of knowledge and best practices. In the new-order educational paradigm, information is one click away: knowledge and best practices are readily available for the hungry student in the form of digital educational content. The one-click-away availability of digital educational content is a challenge for teachers, who must now relinquish their role as knowledge keepers and focus more on mentoring, providing insights and motivating students. Even so, skilled teachers will have to structure, update, adapt the content to the needs of their students. Open-Edu proposes to revamp the development, delivery and curation of digital educational content by taking in the mindset, best practices and ideas from one of the most successful new-order ventures: the open source collaborative model. . Deployment is making it available to students. Curation is keeping it well structured, up-to-date, easy to be used and contributed back. The new digital education content will be public, customizable, dynamic and up-to-date, practical and reproducible. During the project there were produced the following: A methodology that aids content developers, content deliverers and content consumers to create, deliver and use digital content that is easily shareable, modifiable and reusable. The methodology is open and easily accessible by anyone: https://github.com/open-education-hub/methodology An infrastructure that aids in implementing the devised methodology by offering support to publish the educational and to autocorrect assignments: https://github.com/open-education-hub/openedu-builder . 3 repositories for 3 university courses that contain educational materials devised by using the methodology.

Project partners

• University of Iceland Donor project partner· Iceland