Throwing caution to the wind I’ve decided to submit two proposals for the Cascadia Open Education Summit in Vancouver, B.C. on April 17 and 18, with both involving the use of Markdown, Git and the file-based Grav CMS for creating and delivering open educational resources (OER).
UPDATE: While these proposals were not accepted this year I would be more than happy to meet with any interested educators about the above topics while they are in Vancouver April 17th and 18th.
Continue ReadingI recently tweeted some reasons for using the Grav Open Educational Resources (OER) Content Space, and I thought I would share them here:
Continue Reading(1/8) So, perhaps you are wondering… why use the @getgrav CMS Open Educational Resources (#OER) Content Space Project? #openaccess #LMS
— Hibbitts Design (@hibbittsdesign) February 6, 2017
With the recent addition of the GitSync and Add Page by Form plugins along with the arrival of the Gantry 5 Framework to the Grav universe, 2017 holds even greater promise for (open) educators to benefit from Grav. With these new elements, not only will the setup of the multi-device friendly and collaborative Grav Course Hub be easier and quicker, but a whole new range of applications with Grav opens up in relation to open blogging and online OER authoring/sharing. Let’s start with the Grav Course Hub!
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