Crowdsourcing: What are some good platforms to build open educational resources on? I've got the basics like Omeka S, Omeka, Drupal, Wordpress, but it's been a while I have looked at platforms.
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@benwbrum I phrased that badly. The rails software we made and use to publish materials has no authentication system (we use it to organize & display data created by other means), and would not be a good use case for the proposed project. A rails cms would be fine!
I suspect Omeka S will be a good candidate but want to make sure I am not overlooking something.
@nirak Do you mean a Content Management System (CMS) like Wordpress or an educational webtool like Moodle.
I'm assuming the terms I'm using are accurate and recognisable :)
@nirak if people are super technical they could use github-like technology.
Really great for text-based documents and collaboration but can be iffy for multi-media.
If people can get their head around git (there are a lot of tutorials) and markdown it is a left-of-field kind of suggestion!
@rowlandm We do use Github for the majority of our projects, students work on TEI or other docs and commit it to github and then we post to a website. I think for this project that would be difficult to maintain since there will be partners we won't have a direct hand in training.
A wiki is a great idea, not sure why I didn't think of that. I will add to our list of possibilities, thanks!
@hibbittsdesign Thanks! I love markdown for my own stuff, but I have had a few issues with training when the group adding to a resource is extensive. Do you generally just point people at a markdown guide and let them at it?
I'll add these to the list I'm building. :)
@nirak
Depends a lot on the nature/use/purpose of the OER.
For what is definitely intended as book-structured OER content, I recommend either PressBooks (built on WP but a very diff exper). PB can be self-hosted or via SaaS see Pressbooks.org.
Also Manifold fr manifoldapp.org
for interactive, homework style stuff, we find WP with the H5P plugin very good. see h5p.org for info.
Then for fully hosted OER content there's also libretexts.org
@nirak
Ah, well I wish I had clearer guidance then for you, but alas, I am just now beginning to plunge into those depths. I've got some fuzzy ideas about how to go about it but our own R&D on it with a couple of depts doesn't really start till later this year.
Right now I'm imagining a "commons" built off of a WP multi-site (perhaps using CUNY's CBOX setup), but there's a lot of experimentation to go.
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