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Athabasca University, Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertations and Theses

https://dt.athabascau.ca/jspui/handle/10791/419

Sources Compilation

2023-11-03 Dedicated OER Policy and Templates Listings (zip)

Executive Summary (odt)

Dissertation (odt)

• Overview Presentation (MP4-x265)

Appendix D – Addendum of a 2023 Institutional OER Policy

• Distant Reading – 2023 Voyant Tools output for the dedicated OER policy corpus (zip)
• Close Reading – Skim annotations for policy addendum (zip)

Supporting Data & FOSS

• Carrot2 Workbench – Exact search for OER policy (ods)
  • Carrot2 Search Website
  • Carrot2 Software Website and Carrot2 for offline use (GitHub)
• Citation Management System – Zotero bibliography with notes (zip)
  • Official Zotero Website with Application Connectors and Plugins
• Close Reading – Skim annotations for the dedicated OER policy corpus (zip)
  • Skim Website | Skim Development Website
  • *Caveat – The Skim free and open source application is exclusively Mac based. However, shareability of data was mitigated by including the Skim filename.fdf export format. Please refer to the readme.txt in Skim annotations for the dedicated OER policy corpus (zip). Zotero has a built-in PDF reader that can use the processed Skim files, as per the readme.txt information.
• Distant Reading – Voyant Tools result archive for a dedicated OER policy corpus (zip)
  • Voyant Tools Website
  • Voyant Tools Software for offline use (GitHub)

Supporting FOSS

• Audio Editor – Audacity Website
• e-Publishing Managemet System – Pressbooks Server (GitHub)
• PDF Merge – PDF Split and Merge Website (SourceForge)
• PDF to Text Converter – XpdfReader – pdftotext Website
• Platform for Pressbooks Server – WordPress Website
• Office Suite – LibreOffice Website
• SVG editor – Inkscape Website
• Web browser with native screen capture – FireFox Website

Note: LibreOffice source document connected to Zotero. According to Microsoft and LibreOffice there are incompatibilities between application file formats. The source files from open source software maintain the ethos of openness. The dissertation source file download in LibreOffice format is the primary text, whereas all other formats are a copy that maybe out of synchronization with the source file, including but not limited to DOCX, PDF, and HTML.

Author: s s w e t t e n h a m @ g m a i l . c o m

Last updated: 2023-08-28

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