OBS is excited to be working with Common Ground’s new product Scholar — “a web writing space for learners of the social media generation” — to explore the dynamic interface where content (aka “books”) meets readers (“students”) and… things change. What used to be an essentially private act of reading and learning, led by a teacher, has become a social adventure thanks to the Internet.
OBS is working with publishers and educators to begin to define this new space, this Pedagogical Interface (PI), in terms of content standards, applications and interoperability, business models, rights, permissions and licenses, and copyright.
That which was solid suddenly becomes fluid, and we all need to learn to swim.