TY - GEN
T1 - Towards community-driven development of educational materials
T2 - 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2006
AU - Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M.
AU - Dimitrova, Vania
AU - Chaparro, Diego
AU - Tebb, Chris
AU - Romera, Teofilo
AU - Canas, Luis
AU - Matravers, Julika
AU - Kleanthous, Styliani
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33750547749&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33750547749
SN - 3540457771
SN - 9783540457770
VL - 4227 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 125
EP - 139
BT - Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing - First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2006, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 1 October 2006 through 4 October 2006
ER -