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Grants/Arabic Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform

2010-06-30T15:45:10Z

Issa: Created page with '{{Grant Application |Project Title=Arabic Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform |applicants=Jordan Open Source Association |contact person=Issa Mahasneh |coordinator=Issa Mah…'

{{Grant Application
|Project Title=Arabic Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform
|applicants=Jordan Open Source Association
|contact person=Issa Mahasneh
|coordinator=Issa Mahasneh
|start date=2010/09/15
|end date=2011/06/01
|Affiliation=Jordan Open Source Association
|Mainurl=http://jordanopensource.org
|Affiliated=No
|description=Arabic countries lack of an organized repository for open education resources that allows interoperability between educational organizations and focuses on open access and open content for instructors and students. The project tends to solve the problem by building a fully functional online educational system that provides free sharing of educational resources. It will also encourage the creation of Arabic learning materials by instructors, the re-use and the remix of these. On- the-ground implementation of the system will be initiated in different educational institutions in Jordan.
|output=The project will consist of a web platform which allows uploading and downloading different learning materials. Users will be able to use and share videos, audio lessons, animated learning materials, documents and presentations. The platform will be fully localized for Arabic audience and will tend to cover different curricula for K-12 and undergraduate students. The project will also take into consideration the promotion of Arabic Open Content in se by producing a community of contributors and users, a vast repository of free learning materials and a set of organizations that will adopt and support Open Access in the Arab World.
|community=Our targeted community consists of K-12, undergraduate students, school teachers and university instructors. Educational systems in Arab World still adopt traditional tools and means for communicating knowledge and sharing materials in classrooms. The project will give the opportunity to students to have access for innovative and high quality resources from different institutions and to the instructors to reuse materials and gain more advanced technical and pedagogical skills.
|community relationship=Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA) is deeply rooted in Jordanian educational organizations. JOSA consists of several student chapters in universities distributed across Jordan. Several initiatives have been already started by JOSA in Jordanian schools including “Firefox Education” and “Linux in Schools”, in addition to a long history of training sessions, lectures and classes organized in collaboration with Jordanian institutions. JOSA is the only Jordanian organization that promotes Open Content and Open Access in Jordan. On the Arab level, JOSA is already linked with the Arab educational community and plans for future collaboration with other institutes.
|measurement=Impact will be measured by the number of benefiters, students and instructors, number of institutions involved, number of content contributors and size, originality and diversity of contributed content.
Number of registered users in the platform, average frequency of use and geographical coverage will be taken into consideration.
|participants=19 participants are organized into several teams as follows: Software development and system administration (4), project coordination and community relations (3), delegates of educational institutes (12). After the launch, the number of participants will increase consistently to include instructors and students who use the platform.
The participants are involved in the project on a strong volunteering basis. Different organizations showed interest in the project and they are willing to provide human resources to participate in the project.
|impact=The platform represents a repository for creative commons licensed learning materials that will consist of cultural, scientific and educational content, not to mention that it will significantly increase the semi-inexistent Arabic content in the “commons”.
|tech needs=For this project only free and open source technologies will be used. The web platform will be implemented using content management systems or LCMSs (e.g. Drupal or moodle). The project needs fully-localized interfaces and data processing, easy translation tools, an Arabic clean implementation of SCORM technical standards and other “E-Learning 2.0” requirements.
|challenges=Educational organizations may reject the project or oppose change in their current methodologies, in addition to the lack of knowledge in “sharing culture” among Arab academics and teachers. The project will start within organizations that already showed interest in Open Content, our sessions will help other organizations to adopt the platform, will show the socio-economic benefits of Open Access and will provide solutions to the obstacles that some organizations may face.
In order to encourage more adoption, the platform will be easy-to-use, fully-localized for Arabic audience and with consistent support provided by JOSA.
|sustainability=The project aims to be self-sustainable and to run with limited resources. In the long term the project can be sustained by:
1- Sponsorship/Endowment. Other organizations can sponsor the project. Funds can also be raised from charitable or philanthropic institutions that are interested in culture and education.
2- Institutional Membership. We expect the educational institutes that adopts our platform will participate and provide running costs of the project.
3- Government Support. For the pilot phase, a number of Jordanian institutions have already expressed their interest for JOSA's projects, namely Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) and Queen Rania Al Abdullah Center For Educational Technology. JOSA will seek for more support from government entities in the Arab World.
|scalability=The project is highly scalable. In the pilot phase, it will be implemented in a set of educational organizations in Jordan, but the platform can be easily scaled up to include additional organizations and additional content. The web platform is developed to host additional functionalities in the future.
|resource needs=Additional support from Creative Commons is well accepted in these fields:
a) Publicity, promotion and marketing on different channels.
b) Expertise in previous works and projects in the field of education.
c) Help from Creative Commons to individuate institutions and academics interested in Open Content and Open Access in Arab World.
|communication=The Jordan Open Source Association communicates with members using social media (Facebook group, Facebook page and Twitter/Identica), mailing lists, emails, phone calls and offline meetings and events.
|budget=Arabic-OER-Budget-Summary.pdf
|legal=Yes
}}

File:Arabic-OER-Budget-Summary.pdf

2010-06-30T15:35:43Z

Issa:

Facebook CC Integration/Facebook Group

2009-04-21T11:52:22Z

Issa: Added link to CC Jordan FB Group

If you saw the new ToS (point 12.3 see http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=67758697570&topic=7569 ) 7000 people is the magic number to gain the possibility of change almost anything. (If we have the chance to change the ToS with 7000 people, then we also have the possibility to include CC)

===Building a Strong Movement===

The group grew to be the second most biggest CC group on FB.
That exciting piece of news also leads to a not so good situation:

The lack of country CC groups and people inside each one.

We have only a little more than 20 regional groups, with the notorious absent of countries like Brazil, Mexico, Germany.. well a lot of really big and not so big countries

And that's a problem, why? there's a lot of CC people there waiting to take part on something that they believe, but they don't know the existence of a local group to do that.. and because of that, they also don't know about this effort that we are making here.

So I would like to propose the following: make your country group if it isn't created yet or join your local CC group.

So we can help us to connect with us. that's really important.

We hope that in the following week instead of 20 groups we will have 100 groups of CC commons and that also will bring attention to Zuckerberg an his people.

What do you say?

These are the CC groups already on FB:
please join them

If you want to make one for your country, please check that haven't been made and also I suggest two things:
Put the name of the country in the title and make the group 'global' (available to all facebook), so communications among groups can exist.

and last: making a group does not mean you have to lead it :-)
but a group can gather people and that's the first step.

* CC Australia: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5123568444
* CC Canada: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16219732053
* CC Chile: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63074824186
* CC China mainland: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7074870796
* CC France: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5241169780
* CC Greece: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6334614941
* CC Guatemala: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40897231354
* CC Hong Kong: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4339016509
* CC India: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28944518565
* CC Israel: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7103310956
* CC Italia: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35550172381
* CC Japan: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19661267292
* CC Jordan: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=76228837413
* CC Malaysia: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11652195153
* CC Philippines: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10086136135
* CC Puerto Rico: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4699403995
* CC Singapore: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4994205766
* CC Spain: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55280137723
* CC Sverige (Sweden): http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20287004904
* CC Switzerland: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33161445872
* CC Turkey: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7439050476

Open Source Day 2008

2008-05-03T17:14:23Z

Issa:

{{Event
|title=Open Source Day 2008
|Mainurl=http://www.just.edu.jo/opensource/day
|EventType=Conference
|venue=Jordan University of Science and Technology
|date=2008/05/08
|Location=Irbid, Jordan
|Division=Learn
|Attendance=No
}}
Open Source Day is a full-day event that will be held in ''Jordan University of Science and Technology''. The event aims to spread the culture of Open Source, and to shed light on other movements that follow the same principles. The organizers of the event wish that the event will draw more attention towards the ethical dimensions behind OSI and FSF and to clear previous misconceptions about these two movements.

One of the day's key speakers is Mr. Ziad Maraqa, Legal Cases and Court Decisions Manager at ''Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP)'', who will give a lecture about Creative Commons Licenses in Jordan and their compliance with the actual Jordanian intellectual property laws.

Open Source Day 2008 activities also include the screening of ''Elephants Dream'', the first open movie, released under a Creative Commons license and an exhibition stand to promote and distribute CC materials.

More information: http://www.just.edu.jo/opensource/day

Open Source Day 2008

2008-05-03T17:07:06Z

Issa:

{{Event
|title=Open Source Day 2008
|Mainurl=http://www.just.edu.jo/opensource/day
|EventType=Conference
|venue=Jordan University of Science and Technology
|date=2008/05/08
|Location=Irbid, Jordan
|Division=Learn
|Attendance=No
}}
Open Source Day is a full-day event that will be held in ''Jordan University of Science and Technology''. The event aims to spread the culture of Open Source, and to shed light on other movements that follow the same principles. The organizers of the event wish that the event will draw more attention towards the ethical dimensions behind OSI and FSF and to clear previous misconceptions about these two movements.

One of the day's key speakers is Mr. Ziad Maraqa, Legal Cases and Court Decisions Manager at ''Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP)'', who will give a lecture about Creative Commons Licenses in Jordan and their conformance with the actual Jordanian intellectual property laws.

Open Source Day 2008 activities also include the screening of ''Elephants Dream'', the first open movie, released under a Creative Commons license and an exhibition stand to promote and distribute CC materials.

More information: http://www.just.edu.jo/opensource/day

Open Source Day 2008

2008-05-03T17:04:26Z

Issa: Created event 'open source day 2008'

{{Event
|title=Open Source Day 2008
|Mainurl=http://www.just.edu.jo/opensource/day
|EventType=Conference, Party, Presentation
|venue=Jordan University of Science and Technology
|date=2008/05/08
|Location=Irbid, Jordan
|Division=Core, CC
|Attendance=No
}}

'''Open Source Day''' in an event that will be held in '''Jordan University of Science and Technology'''. The event aims to spread the culture of Open Source, and to shed light on other movements that follow the same principles. The organizers of the event wish that the event will draw more attention towards the ethical dimensions behind OSI and FSF and to clear previous misconceptions about these two movements.

One of the day's key speakers is Mr. Ziad Maraqa, Legal Cases and Court Decisions Manager at ''Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP)'', who will give a lecture about Creative Commons Licenses in Jordan and their conformance with the actual Jordanian intellectual property laws.

Open Source Day 2008 activities also include the screening of ''Elephants Dream'', the first open movie, released under a Creative Commons license and an exhibition stand to promote and distribute CC materials.

More information: http://www.just.edu.jo/opensource/day