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Edited by Marion Stanton, Tuesday, 20 Mar 2018, 13:03

I have studied a few free, interactive courses in my field of AAC through various OER platforms. They have all followed a rather similar format of units of written information followed by video examples and then culminating in automated assessment. It would be great to see something a little more inventive, creative, innovative and interactive out there. The communication aids that our clients use all (as an alternative to speaking) have a kind of artificial intelligence in them that predicts what the user is going to say by the context of what they are sharing. This helps them to be able to communicate at a more rapid rate. The challenge is to create technology they can use that will keep them up with the speaking population. I would love to see an element of a course that has this feature built into the activities. 

My organisation had a DfE grant in 2011 to create an on-line resource to explain AAC. It needs an update and I would love to incorporate some OER elements into it rather than just use it as an information resource.

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Maria Strange

Experience of open resources

Hi Marion

I like what you say: “It would be great to see something a little more inventive, creative, innovative and interactive out there” - I am also looking forward to see further development in Virtual Reality and Hollographic Technology, specially for my field of languages.