Towards community-driven development of educational materials: The Edukalibre approach

Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Vania Dimitrova, Diego Chaparro, Chris Tebb, Teofilo Romera, Luis Canas, Julika Matravers, Styliani Kleanthous

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    Abstract

    The libre software development model has shown how combining collective intelligence can lead to revolutionary methods that underpin major software advancements. This paper argues that the time is ripe to examine the application of this model to the development of educational materials where not only teachers but also students can become actively involved in the creation of educational content. The paper describes a novel, truly open platform, developed within the Edukalibre project 1, to support the creation of collaboratively constructed educational materials. The paper presents the Edukalibre collaborative editing system that provides easy access to core technologies composed of a document repository with version control management and conversion tools to produce several formats for each document. Two different collaborative editing interfaces - COLLAB and ConDOR - have been implemented. Based on evaluation studies with COLLAB and ConDOR, we discuss several pedagogical and technological issues related to the deployment of community-driven development of educational content.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInnovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing - First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2006, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages125-139
    Number of pages15
    Volume4227 LNCS
    ISBN (Print)3540457771, 9783540457770
    Publication statusPublished - 2006
    Event1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2006 - Crete, Greece
    Duration: 1 Oct 20064 Oct 2006

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume4227 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Other

    Other1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2006
    Country/TerritoryGreece
    CityCrete
    Period1/10/064/10/06

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