This week I returned to the hack that Jutta Treviranus and I and a few others put together at the OER Hackday for an annual awards ceremony celebrating the world’s best educational materials — where ‘best’ includes openness, accessibility, and flexibility. Right now it seems the focus will be on materials that are:<\/p>\n
Open<\/strong> and accessible<\/strong><\/p>\n Modular and editable<\/strong><\/p>\n These are still draft ideas; your thoughts are welcome.\u00a0 This will be the first year of the effort; we will likely allow submissions that do not meet all of these guidelines. Each focus describes a spectrum, at any rate.\u00a0 For example: Submissions<\/strong>: The awards will allow for direct nomination of great materials by curators in each category, but this year aims mainly to bring greater attention to existing contests in narrow fields, and to recognize the curatorial work they do.\u00a0 So many entries will be the finalists and winners from those existing contests. \u00a0 Some of the free knowledge awards and events we mean to ask to participate:<\/p>\n Categories<\/strong>: There are a variety of formats and a variety of topical fields to consider. We will have a limited set of categories for the contest, and map the intersections of formats & fields onto them.\u00a0 This year we may not distinguisn text and physical media from software and digital media in the categories.\u00a0 We are aiming for enough cross-discipline competition to be valuable without making judging impossible.<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong> We are still discussing where and how to hold a ceremony honoring the winners, or perhaps a number of small events recognizing the year’s most excellent work at other major gatherings honoring developments in education, knowledge, and collaboration.\u00a0 Assuming we do this in person and not virtually, relevant events include:<\/p>\n July 12-15: Wikimania, DC. Stay tuned for updates on this front.\u00a0 And send in your favorite places to find amazing data, books, art, media, and other free knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week I returned to the hack that Jutta Treviranus and I and a few others put together at the OER Hackday for an annual awards ceremony celebrating the world’s best educational materials — where ‘best’ includes openness, accessibility, and flexibility. Right now it seems the focus will be on materials that are: Open and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[205,211,1,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glory-glory-glory","category-international","category-uncategorized","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Cy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nEase of reuse<\/em> may range from highest marks for “public domain” to lowest for “single copy for personal educational use”.
\nAccessibility<\/em> may range from “in major free archives, designed for many extremes of ability” to “on a public website, no DRM”.<\/p>\n\n
\nAugust ??: Stockholm Challenge.
\nOct 16-18: Open Ed, Vancouver.
\nOct 22+?: oXcars, Barcelona<\/p>\n