OpenScout

OpenScout demonstrated its support for collaborative authoring and adaptation of learning materials. Alexander Mikroyannidis and Alexandra Okada from the Open University UK organised an OpenScout workshop at the ED-MEDIA conference on June 29th 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop was entitled "Social networking for collaborative authoring, adapting and sharing of Open Educational Resources".

The workshop organisers introduced participants to the notion of social networking for supporting the collaborative adaptation of open educational resources (OER) and showcased the OpenScout tool library as a proof of concept. The participants had a chance to discuss the challenges involved in localising, adapting and improving existing educational materials on the web, as well as share OER tools and repositories through the tool library. Alexandra and Alexander also delivered a demonstration of OpenScout technologies during the Poster/Demo session of ED-MEDIA.