Hybrid online/offline mobile solutions for accessing OER in areas with poor internet connectivity

[jamshidhashimi]

At a glance

• Submission Name: Hybrid online/offline mobile solutions for accessing OER in areas with poor internet connectivity
• Contact Lead: https://twitter.com/jamshidhashimi
• External Site Link (optional - primarily for projects): https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/AAOUJ-09-2016-0030 is a paper I found on the topic.
• Region: Areas with poor internet connectivity
• Issue Area: Access to OER
• Issue Type: Challenge
• Types of Support Needed: Research and Software support on finding out the best and most applicable solution for the challenge.

Description

There are initiatives and solutions like: World Possible, Beaker browser, Rosetta phone, Rumie and others. A study of each solution to identify their strengths and weaknesses is necessary and a conversation around coming up with a unique solution/platform that can bring together all best practices of these solutions under one place would be ideal. A platform/solution that does syncing, localization, sharing OER resources around OER repositories and others perfectly and ideally in a hybrid online/offline way.

What are we working on during the do-a-thon? What kinds of support do we need?

Getting together and sharing ideas around what can be done. Research, advisory, software and all kinds of support is necessary.

How can others contribute?

If you are also looking for a similar platform/solution, let's get together and work. Individuals with software and OER background will be ideal, but not necessarily.

This post is part of the OpenCon Do-A-Thon. Not sure what's going on? Head here.

[jamshidhashimi]

We are in table 6.

[jamshidhashimi]

We had a nice conversation on this challenge. We planned to draft a document on our work and next steps, but for now, sharing the notes taken today from our discussion:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=18OXfignhcowxSAtBQDNg5b8JiBFHz8fY

This idea is cool because a lot of disadvantaged (in terms of internet connectivity) can benefit from it.....Bravo!

[aprilcs]

Our first task is to create a SWOT analysis document comparing the existing solutions, and identifying gaps: OER offline solutions SWOT document.

[Elisachang]

2nd page of the notes from do-a-thon meeting (contains: action items, content format, etc.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/105s68XHzuRmql7BetftsNNe3UHeKDXWY/view?usp=sharing

[jamshidhashimi]

This looks exactly what we were talking about: http://www.openarchives.org/

[erangell]

Beaker can be used for informal sharing of content by educators creating materials for Rumie.
Manual collaboration is possible when one person agrees to be the maintainer of a master archive, and collaborators maintain their own versions of work in progress which can then be pulled by the maintainer and updated in the master archive.
Future improvements to DAT and Beaker will improve collaboration options.
I created this archive as a demo of how this can be done, as well as links to other ideas to explore:

https://datbeakerroadmapnotes2018oct14.hashbase.io/

I am a community supporter of Code for Science and Society, DatProject, and Beaker who found this thread via OpenCon.

[erangell]

I created a video to demonstrate the ideas above.
https://youtu.be/hx3tnQNgGBc

[jamshidhashimi]

This is really nice @erangell. Thank you for making this video. I will go through further on dat project and may reach out to you for possible collaboration.

[erangell]

Thank you Jamshid. Feel free to reach out at any time.
I made another video and website to help people set up the demo site for Pushpin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zStDMVC5OM

https://offlinepushpindemofilesforeducatorcollaboration.hashbase.io/
People with limited internet connectivity can download the videos and demo files from this site for offline viewing.

[CaptFares]

Awesome! Well done @erangell

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[erangell]

For anyone still following this, I migrated the DAT Beaker Roadmap site mentioned above to a raspberry pi running homebase and deleted it from hashbase.io. The site can now be reached with the following URL: dat://d521e667b6883d31513d15e824f2ffe15dc58c831e2ae6065f15c0c19a1e9546/
The latest version of Beaker allows you to browse legacy DAT URLs as read-only. I am not aware of any solution yet for https hosting of hyperdrives, like hashbase.io provided.

[erangell]

I also added this URL to the pi: dat://92cfb58d71d23f5f444428e3cccba2e1fc334e28286c918574471f3d855f84a2/
It replaces https://offlinepushpindemofilesforeducatorcollaboration.hashbase.io/