Open Educational Technology in the Faculty of Education
Ian Linkletter, Faculty of Education
Open Source Software
- freely available
- may be redistributed
- may be modified
We are going to play today.
Awesome UBC FOSS
A curated list of free and open source software projects at UBC
Open Source Educational Technology:
UBC Faculty of Education Context
- Canvas
- Kaltura
- WordPress
- Mattermost
- H5P
- Etherpad
- Open edX
- UBC Wiki
UN document "Education in a post-COVID world" https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000373717/PDF/373717eng.pdf.multi
Canvas
Canvas is an open source LMS
- UBC licenses the cloud version of Canvas from Instructure, Inc.
- Cloud computing means increased reliability, speed, and updates
- This is an example of an open source technology hosted by a third party.
Kaltura
Kaltura is an open source media platform
- UBC hosts Kaltura for the Province
- I explain it as YouTube at UBC
- Access in Canvas with the button
- My Media in Canvas is another way
edX
Open edX is an open source Learning Management System built for the delivery of instructor-paced and self-paced Massive Open Online Courses.
UBC and edX
- edx.org is an example of an open source technology operated by a third party with additional cloud functionality.
- UBCxOnline is an example of one we host ourselves at UBC.
Open edX at UBC
UBCxOnline is an Open edX server hosted and operated by UBC:
- More enrolment flexibility
- Full platform control
- Accessible from every country
- Our server, our policies
- Can scale up at minimal cost
- Ideally suited for big impact fast
Open edX at UBC: UBCxOnline
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Open edX at UBC: UBCxOnline
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WordPress
WordPress is an open source blogging platform hosted at UBC. It's the foundational tool for Open Education practices.
The "non-disposable assignment" is employed to allow students to co-create knowledge and make it public (if desired).
Mattermost
Mattermost is an open source team chat tool that facilitates "any-time" communication.
This is an example of an open source tool hosted by UBC, but with a paid license to enable CWL login and course user sync.
Think "Slack" or "Microsoft Teams"
H5P
Privacy and OSS
No tracking
No data monetization
No sovereignty issues
Join the OpenETC Mattermost community: https://bit.ly/openetc
From opened.ca:
The OpenETC is a community of educators, technologists, and designers sharing their expertise to foster and support open infrastructure for the BC post-secondary sector.
Sandstorm Demo
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Etherpad
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Draw.io
Questions?
Conversation?
Thanks!