Aloha for Textbook Authoring
Kathi Fletcher
@kefletcher, @oerpub
kathi.fletcher@gmail.com
Marvin Reimer
@therealmarv
Tom Woodward
Phil Schatz
phil@cnx.org
– expensive to produce
expensive (and slow)
to produce
expensive to
buy
By Theodore Scott (Flickr: Look At That Booty) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
static and boring
content silos
Current
Textbooks
Instead: Learning-centered content
My classes and
my past knowledge
===>
Everywhere I am, on all my devices
Student image: By Ron player8 (On College, only for distribution.) CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Content with connections
Content available: Online, Mobile, Print
=>
Collabo
rative
Stats
=>
knowledge
classes, textbooks
available everywhere
online, mobile, print
Content available for learning
=>
Collabo
rative
Stats
=>
Birds By Pierre Dalous (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Powering this - Semantic HTML5
By Pearson Scott Foresman [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
How to find content for flash cards?
Definitions (special classes in the HTML)
How to find content for practice / hw ?
Exercises (special classes in the HTML)
David Wilbanks (CC-BY-SA bit.ly/Hksgqe)
But, authors face technical challenges
Photo by Michele Campeotto, CC-BY-SA, from commons.wikimedia.org
So we are building tools to�Write Once, Share Everywhere
Formats in: Word, OpenOffice
Google Docs, LaTeX
Web pages, blogs, slides
Problem Sets
Multimedia
Anything in
Edit & Adapt
(Using Aloha!)
Everything out
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video
remix.oerpub.org�Perhaps start with a Google Doc
remix.oerpub.org�Convert the Google doc to common format
remix.oerpub.org�Edit and adapt (including math) for a textbook
remix.oerpub.org�add some description to help others find it
remix.oerpub.org�publish (shown here at cnx.org)
User friendly authoring�as much like word/gdocs as possible
More info: oerpub.org
User friendly authoring�drag and drop examples, exercises, notes
User friendly authoring�support all learners with accessible images, tables, media
User friendly authoring�simple math editing
More info: oerpub.org
User friendly authoring�find and add multimedia
More info: oerpub.org
Aloha can be embedded anywhere�Connexions will use for its textbooks
Aloha can be embedded anywhere�Using github to store books
Adapting Wordpress embed
What makes this possible?
HTML5 format (language of the web) and EPUB3 (language of mobile web)
More info: oerpub.org
Edit in browser
Publish to web
and
ebook
and print
What makes this possible?
HTML5/EPUB3 format
Separate structure and style
What makes this possible?
HTML5/EPUB3 Format
Separate structure and style
Community : Components, APIs, Open Source, Embeddable editor
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video
Join us
Mailing groups:
oerpub-dev@googlegroups.com
Code:
github.com/oerpub
More info: oerpub.org
@kefletcher, @oerpub