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,…
“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…
“Loomio is decision-making software designed to assist groups with the collaborative decision-making process. It is a free software web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up…
“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….