 I am Joel Duffin as was mentioned and I'm the CEO of OER Blue and my co-founder here is Justin Wall and he and I started working together about four and a half years ago at the Center for Open Sustainable Learning at Utah State University and there we were focused on this issue of how can you facilitate finding, adapting, using, and assessing or tracking how these open education resources are used. And it's interesting in the previous presentation this room open studies implemented an integration with MIT where they provide online learning support for the open coursework. Well at Puzzle a similar effort was attempted but what happened is after a tool was developed there was no adoption from MIT which you know they protect the brand and so on. But the question becomes well what if we wanted to provide this but MIT is not going to integrate our tool. So that became a question is how can you facilitate the use of these resources that you may not own or control even though they're open licensed. And secondly open content is great but how do you actually teach it? Well typically you put it inside an LMS and you start using it here because you've got your other learning support. And so and then I think this definition of an LMS of what is an LMS what do we really need has been in transition. So all these questions come into play but OER Blue came out of a lot of this work. So I guess just mentioning that title pervasively mashing up the web so a lot of what we saw and some of the effort we've done before is we're kind of doing mashup but can we really do it in a big way to adapt resources for reuse. So just mentioning briefly we've got some great advisors that are guiding us. A year ago we received a grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovative Research Program to develop OER Blue and David Wiley, Cable Green, Phoenix Wayne some of these people are helping us to understand and guide what aren't our work. Some of the previous project we worked on as I mentioned in causal focused around picking these smaller problems out and trying to take an approach of small pieces loosely joined. So we built a tool called send a wiki that let you take any web page and send it to MediaWiki where you could edit it. Another one called Make a Path which let you create a pathway through web pages and annotate them so that you could use them as part of as a presentation or a discussion or a learning path. Another one called OCW Finder which Wiley developed initially which let you a quick way to find open course where related to what you're interested into. Ola's Moser was an identity feed aggregator early on and a social network platform and so we're building all these tools and then eventually we left causal and worked for teachers without orders and some consulting with them and we were building basically a platform to help all their teachers all over the world but the challenge that we ran into there is every time the founder saw a new tool he said well can't we do that can't we do that. YouTube does video can't we do that and so of course it's impossible to keep up with all the cool tools and then why would you want to right there's a good tool out there use it and so this kind of helped formulate the ideas and so the seeds for OER glue. So some of the problems that we try and address are some of the problems with commercial content that content is often too expensive hard to modify quickly out of date and contains limited feedback so I'm preaching to the choir here. So creative comments to the rescue right the ability to explicitly grant the right for anyone to use and adapt potentially adapt the resources that I'm putting out there and to me one of the key innovations of creative commons is that it reduces the barrier reduces the friction required to adapt and reuse material if I can put something out there but every anytime someone wants to use it they have to come and ask me for permission maybe I'm not going to enter into that kind of venture so the chances of something reusing that's open licensed are obviously much higher than something that's not. So open content has come on in a big way you know I'm preaching to the choir the foundations have supported this development and dissemination we've got these communities with Wikipedia flicker where tons of people are creating freely these content which can be used for learning and so there's there's this big movement but even with all the content open content is out there it's still very hard for an organization to adopt and adapt that for their purposes. In fact I think that's you know that's a real interesting either starting to develop case days of where where are there successful stories in this because a lot of our effort obviously has been focused in can we create and license this content make it successful and searchable well who's going to actually reuse all this and how is it what's this process going to look like. So there's a lot of good content out there not only content but there's a lot of good tools as I mentioned before someone comes up with a new cool tool every day why should we re-implement that. So how do we create perfective learning experiences that utilize and leverage all this open content and the good tools that are out there that's the problem that we're trying to solve and so only our clue is a mashup learning platform or a mashup platform for online learning that has four components to it one discover we have search and recommendation tools to help you find good open license content on the internet from our databases as well as from any sites and sources that you want to point us that then we have drag and drop mashup tools that let you go to any web page and start dragging content out of images video interactive tools content and then drag that same content into any other web page additionally you can drag interactive widget such as if you if you wanted to use a CNN article in your in your class you were teaching you could take and drag a discussion specifics your class directly into that article where it is put in a quiz and I'll demonstrate something this so the ability to do that mashup you could then quickly deploy it to your learners inside of your LMS or using our platform and then track what they're doing so this is unique in that we can track what learners are doing on other people's websites so you don't have to have all the content to be able to embed the analytics because of how we're designed if you're using content that's spread around the web we can tell you who's going there what they're doing how long they're spending so this describes this discover assemble deploy and track that makes up our platform and there's two key strategies that we use that were kind of some of this previous work I mentioned suggested to us one use content where it is rather than recording it to be copied into a new system and second integrate with everyone instead of re-implementing tools good tools that are out there and the new ones that are going to come along we just want to make it easy to integrate with with everyone so these these are the strategies that we follow and what we've done so far is built a one one of the ways we bootstrap content as we've gone out to the open course words and in using automated tools slurp them and create an enhancements to them that we can in an automated way this serves as a basis that an organization can go and take one of these courses and immediately begin adapting it and in adding interactivity to it and doing things so how does it work well this is just a little bit about the mashup idea which I'm assuming you're all familiar with but a few years ago there when Google Maps came on the scene people asked what would happen if you took the maps and combine them with the county property records as they came up with this company called Zill which was of course very successful again so this idea of mashing I've been able to see okay there's some cool content here's some good data can we bring them together in a unified context to support learn of course you know this was for property and now we're talking about learning can we take blog articles can we take can we take data can we bring it together and create a support a learning experience so that screen that didn't show I'll demonstrate the way that we the technology that we've implemented to support this is first browser extension so we're using a browser extension get a toolbar that's present wherever you're going which allows you to do this often and then delivery as we've gone out work with large-scale organizations as you can imagine none of them are anxious to install an extension across the organization so we're now in the process of refining the building to offer these mashups through a proxy which we already can deliver the mashups through our proxy and I'll demonstrate that but some of the functionality as I mentioned here it shows someone going to an MIT website that has a video of this physics lecture dragging that collecting that video out of the page dragging it into another page where you want here at Khan Academy video I want I want a discussion specific to my class is that my signal inserting a discussion which it directly to that page these are some examples and now here is the example on the top of our toolbar when when an organization adopts a we argue we'll integrate with their system so if they have a specific chat or discussion or any other tools we can provide it provide instant one-click access to that across whatever content they decide to use and you know demonstrate this more detail so out of concern for internet here's a can demo video that I'm just going to walk you through so suppose an organization a professor that's an organization that's a doctor we are dr. Dewey or blue comes to the only our blue website fire it up they teach a class on business and so they say okay is there are there some courses already out there some OCWs that I could draw from to support and begin building support for my learners we also provide the ability for you to point us at an existing course website for us to crawl in this case he goes to the course catalog and searches for business and you'll see a list of OCWs that we that we've crawled and so he says okay let me look at that see if this is this is interesting when once he does it will open it open that course up again through our proxy and display the first page of the course so here's the course and what he's going to do is make a copy of it because he wants to be able to adapt it for his learners so it opens at the first page of the course and shows an outline of all the different pages in here you see the toolbar along the bottom that has the different tools we can use for doing mashups and here's a page on the government's website that's included as part of the course he decides well are there other resources out there that I could use to enhance this so he searches our database of open resources and knows and finds something on open universities website this looks interesting and he notices over here on the right these are recommendations a recommendation system if you point us at a web page we can tell you what are related open resources now he notices well I like this image but I want to use it another context so he drags that image out of the page into the collector goes back over here to this article and drags drags it now when his students come to that in the context of this course they'll see that that images are better directly there so that's an example of mashup now he says well I want my students to discuss this so again using the strategy of integrate with everyone we have a bunch of widgets that we've integrated with using JavaScript and HTML he drags a discuss widget in there now his students can have discussion about this article specific to his class again we're using the content where it is we're using the tools are out there well here's a page he knows about an article by a business man he says well I don't include this in my course so he goes to the web page opens his outline the size where he wants to put it and drops that article right into that into his outline now when his students navigate that they'll have that and he remembers a presentation over here on slideshare so he goes there opens up our resource collector and he sees a new button like this he collects that presentation into the collector now he's going to go back well first of all he goes to YouTube there's another there's a video presentation by the clerk there again he can collect that video so he's going around the web getting these assets that he could use to enhance these other web pages collects that now goes back to this article and drops the video drops the presentation directly to this page provides additional background for this article now he's what's what he's going to be doing is is well how do I know what my students are learning and I want them to engage with this more than just for reasons we've heard some of the comments from the OLI well he goes to Google forums and creates a short quiz we integrate with all the different Google Documents types he's created this quiz and now he drops that for his quiz directly into this web page so as students come they read the article they go through the presentation they see the video and they respond to they have some quiz questions here where you know all the if you use Google forums it's a powerful way to build some forms where you can gather some data into your Google accounts and so here he's able to do that over here on the right what he's doing now is using our eraser tool there's parts that he noticed as part of the stage well that's irrelevant to my students or distracting he deletes it out of the page and it's gone so this is all this process of creating a mashup for the page which he now publishes out to his institutions website the students find that site or access that they can go they can see the outline they can navigate through those different pages and then when they they can interact with the students with the other students through synchronous tools that we've integrated with to do chat to do white or to do those other kind of discussions and so this again walks you through this whole process of discovering relevant resources assembling them deploying them to the learner and that now last well let's track this what are the students doing across all this content because we run via proxy or this extension we're there wherever the student goes across the internet on this course and so the instructor can access these dashboard showing what how much time the student is spending see how they're trending and then drill down into that students work to see what exactly it is they're doing so we can identify different types of pages where this is assessment or practice or so much and be able to provide that as well as an activity showing exactly which pages they're visiting and drill down and so for a given organization we can provide this content or this type of analytics alongside the grading to help someone who's trying to do a mentor to provide specific support learning support so that's an example of this mashup now of this of the scenario like this we are so great another tool right another tool well we aim to be pretty much invisible so we're building add-ons for the comp for instruction we will their canvas platform also for blackboard so that from within your LMS is already I think they were skewing us up here in this last presentation so we need an easy way to find learning resources from inside of an LMS we're doing that and not only are we doing that we're providing a way to adapt and enhance those resources once you find them so it would be super easy to search at the scope of resources that you've defined to find relevant resources then to mash them up and publish them directly back into your LMS and then we're looking at other integrations too such as integrating with the grade books so one of the things that well I does is they embed assessments in the content well using our tools you'll be able to take quizlets and embed them in any web page around the web and have that data feedback into your gradebook in your learning management system so you increase engagement with that content increase the feedback to the to the learners to the students to the content providers we were working with red rover which provides a social network platform for for learning for universities increased student engagement we're that reason that's important for us is because we're building us a more scalable search and recommendations system that can aggregate content for lots of kind of sources as virus is an instruction of this development group that helps build content out because oftentimes when you go find an open courseware and well is it enough to actually be able to use in teaching well oftentimes it needs some some additional help so it's important for us to be able to partner with organizations that can provide that additional content development services to be able to help people get to where they need to be in leveraging the open content so this is that mark marsh university river over that we provide the back end for for red rover so now we always get a few questions what happens if the content changes or goes away right so one of the strengths is we let you use content where it is and that one of the reason that's a strength is that if it gets updated or changed you've always got the most recent right so if you spent all this time and copy content into an LMS and then all of a sudden they things the content updates well now you've got this synchronization problem right well we've got the opposite right it's always current but what if it goes away well what if it so the strategy that we've taken to that is to snapshot the content so as an author you can say I want to use this version that's one thing we do then the other thing we do is detect changes so if you want to be notified you know of that then we can notify you and thirdly if the content is no longer available we can serve the cash version at least for a short amount of time we're in a case of open content open license content provide that snapshot a version indefinitely so again we're reducing the barriers to adopting open content so then the next question we always get is well it looks like your tools let you use any content anywhere and they do but what so how do you address this talk right issue from a liability point of view so I'm a university I can get sued for lots of money how do I how do I make sure that I don't and so the approach that we do that is we have tools with fortunately created commons as established a standard for embedding metadata in your resources so that we can detect that right and so as an organization that adopts a way of doing you can choose to enforce a policy for example it only allows use of open license content you choose to allow it the thing we can do is up provide auto trails so as an admin or a teacher or whatever you can say well what's in here that's not open license and then we choose to do something about it so that's that's our and we are exploring actually though that because we've because we only are blue works is the content loads live off the web you know we we're interested to see about you know we're not copying the data in most places we're using it in place but we are letting you as the teacher or students choose how you're going to experience it right your web browser presents it one way well maybe I want it a little different way I want it with the quiz here I want it I don't want that content so you know that the issue surrounding copyright and fair use are are interesting there at least to us and if you have opinions or ideas in that space we're certainly interested but like I say we provide for organizations the ability to enforce the policy that they protect them from from liability this is my contact information we are we're hackers and we're we're going to do a half night we've got a room 614 tomorrow night at whatever you want if you want to play with code we'd love to open up the room we've got junk food if you want to bring beverages or whatever 614 all right that's that's what I had to say we feel like certainly open content has changed changed everything and it's it's changing there's a revolution in learning that open content allows and we want to facilitate that there's lots of opportunities so so I think the question that you're asking is is relates to do you have diagnostic assessments aligned with content which is kind of I think we're all trying to head right so we want to line the learning objectives with the learning activities with the assessments and then use those assessments to channel the learner to the resources that will help them bridge the gap from what what they don't know so again we we don't have that with there's a we I guess one thing I should mention is Laura Laura Hunter is right here from the Utah Education Network we they we've recently signed a contract with UVM and we're working with them to deploy this for all of K-12 in Utah and one of the things that UVM has is a is a testing system right that has test items aligned with all their state standards and so the goal with us there will be to allow teachers to integrate again assessments aligned with the content directly but of course her to get melons a lot again is is really this is the this is there's there what they do right is is assessments aligned with the content feeding back into helping the learners focus where they need to and helping with teachers directly so this this is a big a big issue again like I mentioned with our with our analytics some of the things we're doing to us you need you need this map that maps those objectives to the activities to the assessments once you've got that then of course you can do lots of things with them I'd have to defer to someone else one minute so do we run up against security roadblocks so when an organization's adopts where one of the big issues we always address have to address is single sign-on authentication establishing identity and as far as the security of protecting the data what we attempt to do is I mentioned before is integrate with every so we don't hold it we use the LMS is great so again as much as possible every way we try and let the tools that are already out there that do their jobs well continue to do them and integrate in ways that it makes sense and increase the power any more questions is any of it open source I'll let Justin speak we have a full all the platform it's already in Ruby on rails whole platform that we use is open source and we continue to contribute that back to the community a lot of the code that we see that does the mashups is GPL3 the proxy is not currently source because I'm still how do we get money so we have a community website where we're trying to grow the amount of open content out that is out there that people can use and anyone can go there sign up use it individually then as an organization that's where we make our money through organizations that adopt a leader do they have their own website where they control access they control the content they get to see the analytics we integrate with their systems and tools so that can become basically part of their system ecosystem thank you very much