Abstract
With the development of social network services (SNS) on the Internet, the world has gained access to vast amounts of information resources, allowing people to carefully research and select what they need and want to share with others. The main idea behind open educational resources (OER) is providing freely accessible and openly licensed documents, which fits well with the online learning system using SNS. However, the gap between higher education and social network media in relation to shared activities and OER use remains a challenge. The main reason for this is that teachers lack knowledge of mutual assistance and the skills to use OER. Teachers are dissatisfied with having to use others' resources, which indicates that the problem lies in teachers' psychological conflicts and technical capabilities. Our learning platform, Creative Higher Education with Learning Objects (CHiLO), is based on e-textbooks and aims to develop a flexible learning environment. The CHiLO e-textbooks were developed with a completely new design that considered large-scale online courses, such as open online courses. The core component of CHiLO is the CHiLO Book, which is created in EPUB3 format and has media-rich contents, including graphics, animations, audios and embedded videos. Our set of experimental outcomes shows that CHiLO, which includes not only Web services but also e-textbooks, is easy for teachers to handle.
Highlights
The development of social network services (SNS) has made large amounts of information resources accessible and has made it easier for people to choose and share resources
Because the Creative Higher Education with Learning Objects (CHiLO) Books were delivered to commercial e-book sites, the total number of downloads was more than the number of participants in the course
After downloading the CHiLO Book, many participants did not watch the videos. This shows that CHiLO Books may be difficult for some learners to operate because they must manage an e-book reader and a Web browser at the same time
Summary
The development of social network services (SNS) has made large amounts of information resources accessible and has made it easier for people to choose and share resources. Substantial gaps exist between higher education and social network media, and between teachers and students, with regard to sharing activity and OER use These gaps are mainly due to the challenges associated with the lack of mutual assistance and OER skills among teachers and their dissatisfaction with using resources created by someone else. Creative Higher Education with Learning Objects (CHiLO) aims to provide a comprehensive open-network learning system using existing technologies, e-textbooks in EPUB3 format, and various learning resources, including OER, on open network communities, such as SNS. CHiLO creates learner communities in large-scale online courses to promote active connections among learners through shared open learning resources. The CHiLO Community provides methods for discovering, sharing, aggregating and repurposing CHiLO Books for learners The first of these methods is the Open Graph Protocol (OGP), which was originally created for Facebook (see https://www.facebook.com/facebook/info), but is available via other web services. Learners can search the contents of any CHiLO Book using Web search engines, such as Google, Yahoo or Bing, via a referral server
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