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abstract |
OpenScout (Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content
for management education and training - www.openscout.net) is a European project,
aiming to provide an education service on the web that enables users to easily find,
access, use and exchange Open Educational Resources (OER) for management education
and training. In the context of OpenScout, our work is focused on enabling and supporting
users in localising, adapting and improving existing materials. As a result, a significant
outcome of the OpenScout service portfolio is a set of tools for the authoring and
adaptation of OER, as well as the establishment of an infrastructure allowing stakeholders
to share their practices and experiences.
This demonstration will present the OpenScout tool library, an open online environment
for sharing OER adaptation practices and experiences. The OpenScout tool library has
been envisioned as an ecosystem of people, stories, and resources. The purpose of
this ecosystem is to bring together people who are developing or using learning resources
and provide them with the ability to share their stories and resources. These people
come from diverse backgrounds and are involved in various stages of the lifecycle
of learning resources. They belong to four major stakeholder clusters: content providers
and brokers, educators, collaborators, and social learners. Their stories include
completed or running case studies and learning scenarios, their experiences with learning
resources, as well as their future expectations from them. Finally the learning resources
involved are either learning tools or content, mainly OER. The current version of
the tool library is available online at http://openscout.kmi.open.ac.uk/tool-library.
It allows users to create accounts, connect with other users, create a personalised
environment, work with widgets, share stories and resources, as well as create and
join groups. The groups of the tool library enable people with common interests, backgrounds,
and purposes in reusing and adapting learning material, to share tools and other resources,
as well as engage into discussions and collaborative tasks. |