Presentation and demo given at Open Data in Education Seminar, St Petersburg, 10th March 2014: http://linkededucation.org/events/open-data-in-education-seminar-st-petersburg

1. Open Data in Education Seminar, St Petersburg
The Open Education Handbook:
PRESENTED BY
Marieke Guy

2. D4.6.1) Handbook on Open Data in
Education: A collaboratively written living
web document targeting educational
practitioners and the education
community at large, describing project
learnings around how best to use open
data to meet educational needs and use
cases, including tips and tricks for finding
data and tools, using data and tools, and
other areas as determined during the
project.

3. Open Education Handbook
Questions…
● Should it just be about open data in education?
● Who is it for?
● What should it contain? Content? Concepts? Discussion? Casestudies? Definitions? Relationships
● Who should write it? How should they write it?
● Other handbooks: Open data handbook, data journalism
handbook, openGLAM handbook
● What should it look like? How should it be managed?
● What is its future?

4. So what is open?
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone
is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it —
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subject only, at most, to the requirement to
attribute and/or share-alike.”
http://opendefinition.org

5. Licence
• The Open Education Handbook will be licenced under a Creative
Commons Attribution (Unported) v3.0 (Attribution CC BY)
• This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon
your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the
original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses
offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of
licensed materials

7. What’s a Booksprint
A Book Sprint brings together a group to produce a book in 3-5
days. There is no pre-production and the group is guided by a
facilitator from zero to published book.
There are three important outcomes from Book Sprints:
• Producing a book
• Sharing knowledge
• Team/community building
http://www.booksprints.net/

8. Elements of a Booksprint
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Importance of real space collaboration and face-to-face working
Encouraging discussion and brainstorming
Begin with no preconceived ideas about what the book should be
All voices are valid – try and avoid domination by individuals
You should have ownership of the book
Session to be strongly facilitated
There are five main parts of a Book Sprint (Dr D. Berry and M.
Dieter):
1. Concept Mapping
2. Structuring
3. Writing
4. Composition
5. Publication

10. Booksprint 1
• 3rd September in
London
• 17 attendees
• 3 groups: data,
resources and
pedagogy
• Considerable
content written
• Ideas for
audience
• Illustrations

11. Booksprint 2
• 22nd November
in Berlin
• Co-hosted with
Creative
Commons and
WikimediaDE
• 25 attendees
• Discussion on
outline of
handbook
• More ideas for
audience

12. Booktype
Platform for the handbook
• Open source platform for writing and publishing print
and digital content
• Developed by Sourcefabric: offices in Berlin, Czech
republic and Canada
• Also produce Newscoop, Airtime and Superdesk –
services for journalists
• Collaborative working
• Have had some issues with software versions, html,
versioning etc.
• Consideration of next steps..

13. Timeline Building
• 24th October in
London
• Co-located with
MozFest
• Co-hosted with
Creative Commons,
FLOSS Manuals and
OER hub
• Interactive timeline
built using
Timemapper

14. Manual de Educação Aberta
Portuguese translation of Open Education HB
● For Education Freedom day, January 2014
● Led by Raniere Silva (OKFBrazil), Tel Amiel (Educação Aberta
research group) and Ricardo Panaggio (Mozilla Webmaker)
● Exported from Booktype
● Transifex used for management of process
● Uploaded into Booktype and released in EPUB format

15. Collaborative slide authoring software
• WYSIWYG slide authoring and full revisioning and
branching of slides and decks
• Multilingual decks / semi-automatic translation in 50+
languages
• Logical slide & deck representation
• PowerPoint/HTML import
• Source code highlighting
• Dynamic CSS themability
• E-Learning with self-assessment
http://slidewiki.org/deck/10559_open-education-handbook

16. Handbook Demo
http://education.okfn.org/handbook/

17. Future Challenges
For the handbook
Moving away from UK/EU focus
Ensuring a universal style to the handbook
Adding a glossary to the handbook
Further agreement on definitions and glossary items
Backing up ideas with references and links
Providing a flow through the handbook while still allowing
separate sections to be read in isolation
• Identifying the synergies between different areas of work.
This will require more high-level reflection.
• Front-end for handbook – different audiences
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18. for Participating!