Open Educational Resources other than software/code
fgnievinski opened this issue · comments
Hi. Congrats for the initiative. Back in 2016 I've suggested elsewhere that issuing Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for Open Educations Resources (OER) would be something helpful, see discussion at:
https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!topic/sparc-liboer/Ac782OczUGk
I just wanted to suggest that JOSE should consider accepting submissions describing OER in general, not just those involving software source code. Thanks and once again congratulations for the initiative.
FGN
I brought this up at SciPy among the main people involved here and it seemed that most did not want to support OER in general. They wanted the scope of this Journal to be specifically centered around OER materials that have a "source" (as in source code). I think this means that we'd only support materials that are written in source-like plaintext languages (markdown, jupyter, restructuredtext, latex, etc) that can be housed in a version control repository, like Github. So the "Journal of Open Source Education" implies there is plaintext source code. That was my understanding, but others involved can correct me if I misinterpreted.
There is also language now in the readme for this repo that implies the materials should be related to "coding to learn", which narrows things even more that the previous statement I wrote here. Concepts like "computational thinking", "computational experimentation", etc are relevant to this. So the "Open Source" in the journal title may also imply that "open source software" is somehow involved in educating.