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Super nice, motivated guys. Hope they deliver something cool and push the education envelope.
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How free is free? Do they submit resources that only you can own the copyright to like IMDb does? Can anyone not an official student participate allowing public education? How are you going to fund maintenance with no clear business model? I hope it doesn't discourage you!
Open is free for individual teachers to use. We will not own resources submitted to Open. And yes, anyone can watch any lesson on the site (another reason we're named Open). Our revenue model is based upon service we intend provide to schools.
I'm not sure I like the idea of lessons being electronic in a systemic way. (When I worked on Elgg, originally an elearning app, I declared that I'd stop immediately if I thought people would use it to replace face-to-face lessons.) Nonetheless, this is going to have a lot of very positive real-world applications. Kudos also for a very simple, friendly design.
Here's what I don't like: the use of the word Open for a centralized service that presumably has a commercial business model. Open education is a generic term for a kind of learning where barriers to entry are reduced as much as possible. Think OpenCourseWare, the Open University, etc. The name for this service feels like it's trying to co-opt and take advantage of that movement, even if that isn't actually a motive here. Education is a very emotive area, and a public good, so a lot of people feel it's best suited for free and open source software. Your work is cut out for you to justify yourselves being a commercial enterprise that stores lesson content from teachers, and I'd suggest that calling yourselves Open is not a good first step.
Finally, this became a running joke with Elgg, so I gotta ask you: are you SCORM compliant?
horrible name. assuming you do get enough traction with it otherwise, it's going to cause nothing but confusion when talking about. "opens" you to other naming problems in the future if you try to expand the brand to other products Example: the Open Gradebook -- is it open, or is it owned by the Open company -- do you prosecute everyone other website or software with Open in the name? can of worms is "opened". :) my…
horrible name. assuming you do get enough traction with it otherwise, it's going to cause nothing but confusion when talking about. "opens" you to other naming problems in the future if you try to expand the brand to other products Example: the Open Gradebook -- is it open, or is it owned by the Open company -- do you prosecute everyone other website or software with Open in the name? can of worms is "opened". :) my…
I agree Open is too generic. Open should serve as a qualifier for a name that is more describing of what the software does.
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I agree Open is too generic. Open should serve as a qualifier for a name that is more describing of what the software does.
'Open Learning' is one idea we've been playing around with
Maybe 'Transfuser', as in 'Knowledge Transfuser' :-) ?
This could be awesome. I'm not sure I like the idea of lessons being electronic in a systemic way. (When I worked on Elgg, originally an elearning app, I declared that I'd stop immediately if I thought people would use it to replace face-to-face lessons.) Nonetheless, this is going to have a lot of very positive real-world applications. Kudos also for a very simple, friendly design. Here's what I don't like: the use…
One thing I have built in situations similar to this is build a SCORM wrapper that can load the content in an iframe and translate scoring and tracking data back to the LMS. They could do this while still maintaining a fully hosted content model. Many of my clients will not consider an authoring tool for content that cannot be hosted in their LMS.
This could be awesome. I'm not sure I like the idea of lessons being electronic in a systemic way. (When I worked on Elgg, originally an elearning app, I declared that I'd stop immediately if I thought people would use it to replace face-to-face lessons.) Nonetheless, this is going to have a lot of very positive real-world applications. Kudos also for a very simple, friendly design. Here's what I don't like: the use…
I don't see any reference to downloading the content to use inside of a third party learning management system, so I don't see how SCORM compliance would be relevant. Although, the ability to take the content with you would be great. One thing I have built in situations similar to this is build a SCORM wrapper that can load the content in an iframe and translate scoring and tracking data back to the LMS. They could d…
This could be awesome. I'm not sure I like the idea of lessons being electronic in a systemic way. (When I worked on Elgg, originally an elearning app, I declared that I'd stop immediately if I thought people would use it to replace face-to-face lessons.) Nonetheless, this is going to have a lot of very positive real-world applications. Kudos also for a very simple, friendly design. Here's what I don't like: the use…
1) Teachers don't like to record videos/ make digital teaching aids, unless initiative is from the top.
2) Its difficult to make videos of the quality of Khan Academy, not every one can teach like Khan
3) Its additional work load on already underpaid teachers
So these things got me thinking-
- Can you incentivize creation of high quality lectures? Maybe raise donations and pay teachers who create the best content.
Anyway good luck with it. Also let me know incase you want a demo of our effort in case we can collaborate on this. (I don't know if this is appropriate here, please correct me in case its not welcome)