Open Apps: the new way of sharing educational know-how

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OPEN APPSThe new way to share the

educational know-how

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1. The framework

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What is knowledge?There are 2 understandings about it

…we can see it as an object

…we can see it as a process

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Often, it is not a single element but a combination of multiple pieces playing

together

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Also, knowledge can be open

Open Access

Open Data

GNU

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So, it can benefit people around the world, and it can be reused to creating new knowledge in a continuous process

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It not only deals to share objects, the story is also important

Open

Acces

sOpen Data

Actually, the true knowledge is the account of one experience

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2. How does it work

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…in witch, “apps” are the metaphor that

knowledge package takes

http://open-apps.uoc.edu/index.php/en

Open Apps is an Open Knowledge website, that take the form of an online “app store, …”

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Actually, one “open app” can be composed by applications, experiences, services, products,

sequences of code, papers, manuals, methodologies, or combinations of all this

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...They are all generated from processes of innovation that have been taken place in the UOC

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a) be innovative, meaning a significant novelty and an improvement in his field;

b) be interoperable, not being based in endemic technological or methodological solutions that can only work in the original context;

c) be open and regulated by copyleft licenses such as Creative Commons, GPL, or GNU, allowing the free utilization and modification by third;

d) and have been used before in his initial context having obtained a reasonable success.

Not any solution is appropriate to be part of Open Apps. It is necessary to fulfill some conditions:

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The objective is to put in touch people and organizations around common interests, in a

bottom-up way

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3. About it

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Online from June 2012

20 Open Apps available

More than 300 interest request

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Working on…

…improving the back office management

processes

…opening the platform to students works, incorporating Final Degree Projects of

Computer Engineering

…publishing new Open Apps

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Xavier MasMarta Enrech

Innovation Program of Universitat Oberta de Catalunyaxmas@uoc.edu

http://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/index.html

http://open-apps.uoc.edu/index.php/en/