Aperta

We are fixing the flaw of Open Education Resource through a custom git front end allowing real open source contribution rather than just open use.

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Inspiration

This project idea came from wondering how textbook publishers get away with exploiting both its supplier and consumer at the same time. Looking at the alternatives, open educational resource, it seems that OER simply aren't on par with traditional publishers. Considering the similarity between Open Source and OER, it felt like OER is not really open source, only open use. We want to build a tool to allow OER to receive contributions similar to how opensource allows anyone to report issues and merge fixes or improvements.

What it does

We built a platform focused on bring git version control to the field of Open Education Resource. So far, the platform allows users to upload pdf files and make changes onto the resource they posted.

How we built it

We built it with vanilla js, python flask server, and propel authentication

Challenges we ran into

The frontend implementation was quite time consuming and we ran into many weird styling issues as we were implementing the design.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

We learned to use ui libraries more especially in time crunch and be prepared to deal with CORS if you want to write the server

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