This is a catalogue of instances of the Open Web covering applications and platforms that can be relevant for teaching and learning.
It also includes resources and references that can help people understand what the Open Web is.
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Tim Berners-Lee envisioned the World Wide Web as “an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries.”
OWLTEH looks at online infrastructures that somehow enable this, with a particular focus on how they can be used within educational contexts. While the concept is often associated with open source, open standards or open licences, we welcome different interpretations of the concept and understand it as a continuum that can encompass different levels of openness.
TRAVIS GO is an app for simple and collaborative annotation of video and audio material. TRAVIS GO allows to easily work with audiovisual media artifacts (e.g. film sequences,…
“SlideWiki is an online slideshow tool that offers users the chance to create and collaborate on slides, assessments and to share content as structured open educational resources using…
“The Remixer Machine is a web app that aims to provide people with a visual voice, especially to those who might not consider themselves “arty” – or who…
“ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. It’s brought to you by the team behind…
“Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks Have a repository full of Jupyter notebooks? With Binder, open those notebooks in an executable environment, making your…
“Laverna is a JavaScript note-taking web application with a Markdown editor and encryption support. It’s built to be an open source alternative to Evernote. The application stores all…
TimeMapper is an open-source project of Open Knowledge Foundation Labs enabling users to create timelines where events are linked to geographical location.
Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer browser with support for the dat:// protocol. “We believe the Web is at its best when it empowers creation and encourages participation. That’s…
“Editoria is the open source, browser-based books production tool developed by the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) in collaboration with University of California Press and California Digital Library. Editoria…
“Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron. Discourse received funding from…
“H5P is a free and open-source content collaboration framework based on JavaScript. H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package, and aims to make it easy for everyone to…
“Mastodon is a distributed and federated social network, with microblogging features similar to Twitter but administered as a decentralized federation of independently operated servers running free software. Each…
“Etherpad allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player editor that runs in your browser. Write articles, press releases, to-do lists, etc. together…
Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere. Use open-source Hypothesis annotation to hold discussions, read socially, organize your research, and take personal notes on any webpage, PDF or EPUB….
The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data…
SPLOT tools are online publishing tools aimed at making it as easy as possible to post content to the open web. One key principles underpinning the design of…