Re: [Fsedu-developers] Reorganization of the wiki

[Wouter Vanden Hove]

Hi, 
some questions.


What are your thoughts on 
*) Metadata 
there are some official standards for packaging e-learning objects?
(LOM, SCORM)

*)Classification
once the project gets large, how do you structure it?

*)Does someone have any knowledge with:
frameworks like
Midgard, http://www.midgard-project.org/
Zope, www.zope.org
Mit Open Knowledge Framework
Apache Cocoon,..
Noösphere, the Planetmath.org-engine

Is Flash considered an open standard?
http://www.educommons.org/

Most of the time we talk about content creation.
OK, what what if the content is created?
IMHO the content-creation layers should be separated from the
presentation layer.

If I read a course on algebra it shouldn't matter wat tools the authors
used.

A wiki is good for continuous development, but it's not very suited for
presentation, alos a wiki presupposes that you do your writing online,
unlike cvs.

 I think a kind of library with "stable" releases from the wiki would be
nice. GNUtemberg is a kind a library, but they just contains links to
Free Works.http://www.gfdd.org/
By making a stable release you could optionally go through a peer review
process.


It would be nice if the resulting work is a "package", just like a *.deb
of an RPM-file. 
containing:

metadata according to offical standards, like Dublin Core
a XML-masterfile,
some fixed-named directories like 
/images, 
/css for different stylesheets
/scripts ,containing some useful scripts like convertors to other
fileformats, a script for generating a table of contents,...

the package can then be shipped as a gzipped tarball
of there are many tarballs on a subject a distribution can be made
mathematics, biology,...

for textbooks, the modules of the Connexions Project are a very
interesting case study.
This is the Connexions wiki: 
http://bunker.ece.rice.edu:8080/mntb/wikis/

For reference works planetmath.org seems the best system to me.


Wouter Vanden Hove
http://www.open-education.org
http://www.opencursus.be


Op ma 26-05-2003, om 19:06 schreef Peter Minten: 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I talked to mdupont on IRC yesterday about reorganizing the wiki so that books
> and other educational material can be written in it. We agreed on the 
> following
> approach:
> * The wiki pages will be a mix of RDF, BookML (aka Docbook + MathML + ChemML)
> and wiki type markup.
> * Scripts will transform the wiki pages into the following output formats:
>   - Wiki HTML
>   - Docbook
>   - LaTeX
>   - RDF
> * The wiki is reorganized around four central themes:
>   - Tool generation (for example the wiki scripts)
>   - Educational content generation (writing textbooks, making slides, etc)
>   - Advocacy (carrying out our message to schools)
>   - FSEDU (anything not in the previous three categories)
> 
> We believe that with this approach the wiki will be much more useful. For
> example it will be possible to write books directly in the wiki.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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