[IIAB] [XSCE] Massive -Offline- Open Courses

[Anish Mangal]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com>wrote:

> FWIW, I played around with the edx source code a bit yesterday night, and
> was able to get the edX studio (for course creation) and edX platform (for
> students) up in a VM fairly easily... Some thoughts...
>
> * It looked like quite the resource hog. I'm not sure how many users can a
> decently fast ARM support simultaneously.
> * It uses youtube videos for the "video part". This is a blocker. I hope
> we could find another way around this, but would require digging into the
> codebase.
> * Installing it on an XSCE would probably be a fairly complex endeavor
> because of all the dependencies and configurations.
>
> OTOH
> * "Better classroom integration" has been a* big demand* with XS and XO's
> over the years. Teachers want the technology fit to their way of teaching
> might find MOOCs beneficial.
> * Teachers want easier content creation capabilities. (for reference,
> easier than Moodle). The edX platform is pretty intuitive when it comes to
> that (and much more dynamic).
> * Anyone who's used edX before will know that it's pretty awesome at
> fostering collaboration, discussion, and not just dumb video delivery. (and
> it's getting better at it day by day).
>
> So,
> * *Need a careful analysis of whether edX can really run on low power,
> ARM servers (and how many users can the realistically support).*
> ** Need a rough analysis of how much work would it be to install it on an
> XSCE. Can we get around the youtube issue.*
> ** I feel the value being added by having such a platform justifies
> atleast a reasonable effort to find the answers to the above two questions.
> *
> ** If anyone wants to tag along in this adventure, please let me know! :-)
> *
>
* I didn't actually test whether the portal runs well on an XO-1/1.5/1.75
(as a client).. oops... will do that today.

> *
> *
> Cheers,
> Anish
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Braddock Gaskill <braddock at braddock.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Seth Woodworth <seth at sethish.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> If the decision is non-constructivist or do it all yourself, I would
>> go
>> >>> with non-constructivist curriculum.
>> >
>> > I am very interested in bulk distribution of online course material with
>> > Internet-in-a-Box, in addition to the 4,000 Khan Academy videos we
>> already
>> > provide.
>> >
>> > The Internet-in-a-Box project is focused on useful resource curation and
>> > distribution and not collaborative or constructivist activities.  If our
>> > distribution of bulk materials can be combined with, for example, a
>> School
>> > Server module which allows a more interactive experience with the course
>> > material that would suit us well.
>> >
>> > -braddock
>> > http://internet-in-a-box.org
>> >
>> >
>>
>> For all the TED videos that we have in Bhagmalpur
>> (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com), we used metaTED. Here's a
>> description. http://www.olpcsf.org/node/120
>>
>> For IIAB, MP4 -> OGV may be optional, although most major browsers now
>> play OGV (Theora codec) natively
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video).
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>> --
>> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> Professor, Information Systems
>> San Francisco State University
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> http://commons.sfsu.edu/
>> http://olpcsf.org/
>> http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/
>>
>
>
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