Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Budding Economist Badge- proposal

[Nagarjuna G]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 9:04 PM Anil Prasad  wrote:

> Hi GN ji,
>
> Visited the link. It is wonderful! Is this integration easy? Does
> discourse charge for integration?
>


It is fully free and open source. Badging is available as a default
feature. Customization is intuitive, through the interface. The community
at https://meta.discourse.org is very helpful.





>
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, 11:15 Nagarjuna G,  wrote:
>
>> On 05/12/19 6:51 am, Anil Prasad wrote:
>>
>> Wow Stephen! Amazing work! The most precise and resourceful technical
>> article in the recent times! Thank you very much Stephen for sharing it! I
>> see tremendous possibilities of using it in Million Pillars Economy open
>> theory development project.
>>
>> A lot of information for louder thinking in the community. All friends
>> may please read it an share thoughts.
>>
>>
>> Warm regards
>> Anil
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, 21:42 Stephen Downes,  wrote:
>>
>>> This article reports on some work I did with the platform.
>>>
>>> https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/348/436
>>>
>>> -- Stephen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2019-12-04 10:49 a.m., Anil Prasad wrote:
>>>
>>> Friends,
>>>
>>> I was playing with badgr.com an open platform for creating and awarding
>>> badges. Badges can be awarded through email. An interesting platform.
>>>
>>> Does anyone here use this platform?
>>>
>>> Warm regards
>>> Anil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Anil and Stephen, though we are not using badgr.com, we are taking the
>> badging engine integrated with https://discourse.com in our STEM
>> education project.  We created customized badge groups, and discourse
>> allows automatic granting when certain criteria are fulfilled (using custom
>> sql queries). Please see https://STEMGames.metaStudio.org/badges.  In
>> this listing the group STEM Habits are customized by us, while the rest are
>> part of the discourse badging system.
>>
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Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Budding Economist Badge- proposal

[Nagarjuna G]

On 05/12/19 6:51 am, Anil Prasad wrote:
> Wow Stephen! Amazing work! The most precise and resourceful technical
> article in the recent times! Thank you very much Stephen for sharing
> it! I see tremendous possibilities of using it in Million Pillars
> Economy open theory development project.
>
> A lot of information for louder thinking in the community. All friends
> may please read it an share thoughts. 
>
>
> Warm regards 
> Anil
>
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, 21:42 Stephen Downes,  > wrote:
>
> This article reports on some work I did with the platform.
>
> https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/348/436
>
> -- Stephen
>
>
>
> On 2019-12-04 10:49 a.m., Anil Prasad wrote:
>> Friends,
>>
>> I was playing with badgr.com  an open platform
>> for creating and awarding badges. Badges can be awarded through
>> email. An interesting platform.
>>
>> Does anyone here use this platform?
>>
>> Warm regards 
>> Anil
>>
>>


Anil and Stephen, though we are not using badgr.com, we are taking the
badging engine integrated with https://discourse.com in our STEM
education project.  We created customized badge groups, and discourse
allows automatic granting when certain criteria are fulfilled (using
custom sql queries). Please see
https://STEMGames.metaStudio.org/badges.  In this listing the group STEM
Habits are customized by us, while the rest are part of the discourse
badging system.

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Re: [WikiEducator] Mastodon social network instance set up for OERu

[Nagarjuna G]

On Sunday 08 July 2018 10:39 AM, Wayne Mackintosh wrote:

Hi everyone

The OER Foundation has set up a Mastodon instance 
 which is a federated and open source 
social networking alternative.  (This short video 
 provides a good overview of what 
Mastodon is.)


At the OERu, we do not want any learner to be forced to use any 
proprietary hosted technologies in order to participate in our 
learning opportunities, and this is why we have set up an OERu 
instance  of the Mastodon software.


Wayne, it is a wonderful initiative.

Another important reason for using mastadon is it is one of the first 
popular social networking platform that supports the new open standard 
of W3C called ActivityPub. 


We have created a Mastadon site for Indian OER users at 
https://member.metaStudio.org, which will be integrated to 
https://NROER.gov.in


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Re: [WikiEducator] Re: LRMI metadata considered standard for OER

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On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 02:33:15 AM Phil Barker wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 05:33:51 UTC, Nagarjuna G  wrote:
> >  
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I would like to know if LRMI metadata is considered standard enough for
> > OER?  I notice that CC is also pushing LRMI. 
> > http://creativecommons.org/tag/learning-resource-metadata-initiative
> Hello. Yes, Creative Commons do support LRMI. They, along with the American
> Association of Publishers, were funded by the Gates foundation to extend
> schema.org so that it could be used to describe educationally significant
> characteristics of resources, that initiative became LRMI. I work with
> Creative Commons on that, I also have a background in metadata and Open
> Educational Resources in general.
> 
> The elements that LRMI proposed were adopted by schema.org some time ago, so
> in terms of being "standard enough" they can be considered alongside the
> rest of schema.org. If you are thinking of schema.org / microdata in the
> HTML of OERs in order to provide embedded metadata that can be used to
> enhance resource discovery, then you would be following many of the biggest
> sites on the web, with the backing of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Obviously
> whereas YouTube uses the schema elements for videos, you would want to use
> those parts of schema that are relevant to education, and so would use LRMI
> properties. You wouldn't be the first, among those already using LRMI
> properties in the HTML of their public webpages are MIT OCW and OER
> Commons.
> 
> If you're thinking of using LRMI as the basis for a metadata schema in some
> other context, or in some other serialization, that too is possible. For
> example the Learning Registry <http://learningregistry.org/> store LRMI
> metadata as JSON records.
> 
> Either way it would be good to know more about what you have in mind.
> 

Thanks for al lthe replies.  Wayne, Jim and Phil.

Here is the elaboration of the project I am doing.  In India NCERT (National 
Council 
of Educational Research and Training) has an education technology unit called 
CIET 
(Central Institute for Educational Technology).  My team at the gnowledge lab 
(http://lab.gnowledge.org/) is collaborating with them in designing and 
developing 
the platform that will publish all the topics covered in the school education 
in India 
from class 1 to  Class 12).  The portal is taking shape at http://nroer.in/.  
All topics 
will be linked to resources.  The resources can be pictures, videos, text, 
simulations 
and other interactive learning objects.  All these resources will be proper 
OER, in the 
sense that they will be released under CC by SA.  

In the new incarnation of the portal, we would like to support standard 
metadata.  
Naturally LRMI came to my attention.  Since we already know how to use 
schema.org, it is not difficult for us to implement LRMI.  We wish to complete 
this 
work by June 2014.  

Since a large number of educational resources will become available, and in 
several 
laguages of our country, this will eventually become a massive OER repo.  
Curating 
such a big repo with a standard metadata vocabulary is therefore essential. 

We are also thinking about supporting OAI-PMH protocol.  This will be next 
step.  

Phil's response is giving me an assurance, so we could confidently spend time 
to 
support schema.org and LRMI. 

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[WikiEducator] LRMI metadata considered standard for OER

[Nagarjuna G]

Hello, 

I would like to know if LRMI metadata is considered standard enough for OER?  I 
notice that CC is also pushing LRMI.  
http://creativecommons.org/tag/learning-resource-metadata-initiative

I do not recall if wikieducator community already had a discussion on this 
subject, 
if so please direct me to the thread.  

thanks
GN



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Re: [WikiEducator] converting to mediawiki syntax

[Nagarjuna G.]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote:

> In the past, I have used a plugin for OpenOffice that exports to
> MediaWiki. It has been a couple years since I used it. As I look now, I see
> that LibreOffice has built this function into the core software (see the
> "Wiki Publisher" item on this page:
> http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/ ) I would guess, but am
> not certain, that this is an update of the same basic feature. I believe
> this means that if you use a recent version of LibreOffice, you can simply
> choose "export" and then "MediaWiki" to export a text document; or if you
> prefer, you can link it to your MediaWiki site so it will publish directly.
>
> My memory of this feature is that it works well, but is in many cases more
> "chatty" than would be desirable: it inserts far more tags than one would
> like, specifying things like font, font color, font size, precise width of
> columns in tables, etc. My solution was to run a series of Regular
> Expressions on the output, but it was an annoyance to have to do so.
>
> I hope this helps; please report back on what you find, I would be
> interested in how this feature has evolved.
>
>
If you do not see the option for wiki under the file menu -> send ->, try
look for the wiki-publisher extension in your software installer. If you
are using Ubuntu use synaptic install the extension.  After you install
this extension you should be OK.

I use fedora, I have to look for wiki-publisher extension from their
software installation app.

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Re: [WikiEducator] Back to the future: 2012 PARIS OER DECLARATION Adopted

[Nagarjuna G]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Wayne Mackintosh
 wrote:
> Living in New Zealand, due to our geography and international time zones we
> are very fortunate to see the future which has already happened for many
> parts of the world. However, in the case of the UNESCO World OER Congress,
> we now have the opportunity of getting back to the future of OER!
>
> It was a memorable evening for me (New Zealand time) watching the live
> stream of the World OER Congress  and waking up again at 3am to watch the
> OER university team present the closing plenary at the congress from home.
>
> Belated news, but definitely worth repeating.
>
> Following a global consultation process,  The 2012 PARIS OER DECLARATION has
> been approved by the UNESCO World OER congress.  The next step in the
> process is to move through the formal adoption procedures by UNESCO member
> states.
>
> Here is the link (save it as this is a significant milestone for OER.):
>
> http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/Paris%20OER%20Declaration_01.pdf
>

thanks for sharing.  way to go.

Nagarjuna

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Re: [WikiEducator] Re: [OER] UNESCO OER logo -- Copyright holder leads by example!

[Nagarjuna G]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Ravi Limaye  wrote:

>  Dear Wayne,
>
> The Hindi translation is मुक्त शिक्षा संसाधन



Would Jonathas Mello  create the Hindi logo with मुक्त शिक्षा संसाधन as the
translation for Open Education Resources?

Since other languages are done in SanSerif, the preferred font for Hindi
will be Gargi font.   This is the default font available in Debian and
Ubuntu distributions of GNU/Linux.

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Re: [WikiEducator] Re: [OERU] Re: [OER] UNESCO OER logo -- Copyright holder leads by example!

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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari <
sup...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> In Bangla / Bengali, it will be:
> অবারিত শিক্ষাগত সম্পদ
> In Hindi, it may be:
> अप्रतिबंधित शैक्षिक संसाधनों
>

I checked with our transalation expert:  he suggested
मुक्त शिक्षण संसाधन (Mukta ShikshaN sansadhan)
He suggested to use it for both plural as well as singualar, unless the
emphasis is required depending on the context.
अप्रतिबंधित means "unrestricted".  There are restrictions of attribution
and share alike, and so this expression is not suitable.

'Mukta' translates also to libre, the french term used for free as well as
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Re: [WikiEducator] Re: [OERU] Re: [OER] UNESCO OER logo -- Copyright holder leads by example!

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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Wayne Mackintosh
 wrote:
> Dear Prof Kamat,
>
> Perhaps you can contribute a Hindi translation of "Open Education Resources"
> to add to Jonatha's list of current translations
> (see: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/global-oer-logo/ )
> .
>
> Now with a CC-BY license -- users have the freedom to translate (which is
> considered an adaptation under most national copyright acts and would not
> have been easy with a ND license.)
>

Dear Indian colleagues,

what is the accepted translation of OER in Hindi and other Indian
languages.  I can create the Indian versions and update the page.

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Re: [WikiEducator] children philosophy curriculum

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2012/2/4 Wong Leo 

> Dear all , anyone know anything about this area ??
>
>

Please follow the references cited in this paper, which may give you some
links.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/yllt2884x64p4121/

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[WikiEducator] how gnowledge lab can contribute to Wikieducator

[Nagarjuna G]

Hi,

Since this is the first time I am posting to this list, some
introduction:  I work as a faculty in Homi Bhabha Centre for Science
Education, TIFR in Mumbai, India (http://ur1.ca/3amwt).  I investigate
structure and dynamics of knowledge networks with a special focus in
creating free knowledge infrastructures for supporting free education
at the gnowledge lab (http://lab.gnowledge.org).  I have training in
philosophy and science and an activist of free software, free
knowledge and contribute as chairperson of Free Software Foundation of
India.I also collaborate with Free Technology Academy
(http://ftacademy.org).

What gnowledge.org can do to wiki-educator? (among other things)

gnowledge lab (http://lab.gnowledge.org) is collecting pre-requisites
of all learning objectives (LOs) in a collaborative community portal
(http://atlas.gnowledge.org) developed by the lab.  The portal will
soon go stable with all the expected features to do collaborative
construction of semantic relations between LOs using standard semantic
web technology.  Each learning objective, irrespective of subject
area, can be linked to free learning resources (OER) so that a
navigation map in the form of a road map (presenting the learning
sequence), and road-ahead map (what more to learn having reached
somewhere) to the learner.  You can view one such map here for a LO,
natural selection
(http://atlas.gnowledge.org/Data/images/16515_depmap.svg), and for
force (http://atlas.gnowledge.org/Data/images/12675_roadmap.svg)
These links work in Firefox and other browsers who care for W3C
standards.
Using these graphs, when linked to OER can provide guidance to people
who learn online.  The portal's API can be used remotely by other web
servers delivering the information as RDF, SVG, DOT formats.
We are soon going to announce a Firefox plugin to build  a distributed
teaching-learning seqeunce from any online OER resource.

Hope this is in line with the wikieducator project and the recent
initiative of OERU.

thanks
Nagarjuna

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