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[PRE REVIEW]: Emacs-reveal: A software bundle to create OER presentations with audio explanations #1386

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whedon commented 5 years ago

Submitting author: @lechten (Jens Lechtenbörger) Repository: https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal Version: v3.0.1 Editor: Pending Reviewer: Pending

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whedon commented 5 years ago 
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whedon commented 5 years ago

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lechten commented 5 years ago

Concerning potential reviewers: I did not see anyone advertising Open Educational Resources. Here are some suggestions:

jrosen48 commented 5 years ago

Hi, I'd be happy to serve as a reviewer for this software bundle & paper.

markgalassi commented 5 years ago

I'm also happy to serve as a reviewer for emacs-reveal

bradweiner commented 5 years ago

Hi all,

Thanks for considering me as a reviewer. At this point, I don’t have the capacity to do this review. My apologies, but I have a few other commitments that are taking my time and I wouldn’t want it to get held up by me.

It looks like a very cool project.

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lechten commented 5 years ago

Hi all, many thanks for your fast responses and many thanks to @jrosen48 and @markgalassi for being willing to work on my behalf! Is there anything for me to do now? What about the PDF compilation failure?

arfon commented 5 years ago

:wave: @lechten thanks for your submission to JOSS. From a quick inspection of this submission it's not entirely obvious that it meets our submission criteria. In particular, this item:

  • Your software should have an obvious research application

Could you confirm here that there is a research application for this software (and explain what that application is)? The section 'what should my paper contain' has some guidance for the sort of content we're looking to be present in the paper.md.

Many thanks!

lechten commented 5 years ago

There are different directions of research. First, the Action Plan [@Une17] shows a gap for OER in practice, also identifying a lack of tools. How should “good” tools look like? Prior work [HWSJ10] proposed the ALMS framework to specify desirable technical properties for OER. In [Lec19] I extended that framework based on more general ideas of software engineering and technical writing. I believe this to touch fundamental questions of how to produce and use OER.

Second, in the paper I mention CC REL [AAL+12]. In work currently under review, I show CC REL not to be sufficient to express license attribution in a machine-readable fashion. In emacs-reveal, an ad-hoc extension of CC REL is implemented, which allows to gather experiences in a real-world testbed. Further standardization is necessary, but currently nobody seems to know what is necessary.

arfon commented 5 years ago

OK thanks for the background. I'd like to consult with the JOSS editorial team to get their feedback too.

Before I do this however, could you clarify what and where the source code is for this submission? I can see a couple of .el files but there seems to be a Docker file referenced too. Could you clarify?

lechten commented 5 years ago

Thanks for your questions, which help me to position emacs-reveal for a wider audience regardless of how this submissions plays out.

You can think of emacs-reveal as a plugin for GNU Emacs to generate HTML presentations from input files in Org mode. Emacs plugins/libraries/packages are written in Emacs Lisp (el files). If you are disappointed by the amount of code in the repository: In the past (until the beginning of January 2019) it contained more code and resources. Based on user feedback, I made the bulk of the code available as separate Emacs packages oer-reveal and org-re-reveal-ref (on GitLab as well as on the standard repository MELPA for such purposes). Nowadays, at the top of file emacs-reveal.el you see oer-reveal and org-re-reveal-ref listed as requirements, and the file just contains necessary setup code to pull various bits and pieces together.

The Docker image allows to use emacs-reveal in a controlled environment. For example, the Howto of emacs-reveal is generated by a GitLab CI runner based on that Docker image.

lechten commented 5 years ago

I'd like to add one point concerning research: I assign self-study tasks to students based on presentations generated with emacs-reveal (in Just-in-Time Teaching, which shares similarities with Flipped Classroom approaches to foster active learning). Frequently, such approaches are based on video input, which I dislike personally (no skim reading, no hyperlinks, difficult navigation, difficult re-use). However, what is really better for learning? [Lec19] includes a survey result showing a slight preference by students for emacs-reveal presentations over video. This is certainly not the typical type of research for JOSS, but research enabled by FLOSS anyways.

arfon commented 5 years ago

Hi @lechten - many thanks for all of your feedback on my questions here. I've discussed this submission with the JOSS editorial team and we've decided that this not in scope for JOSS.

We have a sister journal - Journal of Open Source Education (http://jose.theoj.org/) that this submission might be a better fit for if that's interesting to you?

Thanks again for your interest in publishing with JOSS.

lechten commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the pointer. I'll check it out.