[WFS-India] [X]Books as Web Platforms

[A. Mani]

Is epub optimal for the purpose?

http://www.flossmanuals.org/news/booktype-floss-manuals-ebooks-learning-platform-future-cetis-2014

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It's a bit simplistic but here's the essential argument. (excuse the
ACRONYMS google is your friend here)

most OER are shared by the person / team that writes them

online courses, Moocs, OER repositories are increasingly the place
where OER are collaboratively written using blog type, wysiswyg tools
which output HTML pages

format specs like Scorm and metadata standards like LOM are too hard
for self publishers to use

epubs are the most suitable candidate to allow importing and exporting
of OER into these platform allowing us the freedom to exit and remix
between repositories

EDUPUB is in danger of bringing a lot of complexity to the equation
and hindering uptake
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et's not get hung up on interactivity - let's get the workflow working
with simple epubs first and use the web coding principle of
"progressive enhancement" to bring more interactivity to OER

exported ePubs work well on mobile devices (just saying)

ePubs - all the way - let's advocate for all VLEs, MOOCs, Blogs etc to
accept import and export of ePubs

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A. Mani



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