Shaping Openness

in Education, Science and Society

Axel Dürkop

“In digital times, the openness of our society depends more than ever on the technology we develop and use. Therefore free software, open education and a decentralized internet are for me the fields of action that I actively engage in.”

Experience & Skills

Subjects

The Culture of Free/Libre Open Source Software, Open Education, Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Science, Privacy in the Digital Age, Internet Health, Ethics & Technology, Software Architecture

Coding & Technologies

Linux, Python, JavaScript, Django, Vue.js, GitLab, Docker, Static Site Generators (Pandoc, Jekyll, Hugo, GitBook), Microcontrollers (Arduino, micro:bit, Raspberry, Calliope)

Coaching & Facilitation

Design of Open Socio-technical Systems and Workflows in Research and Education, Workshops on User Story Mapping, Learning Design and Engineering, Teaching in Higher Education

Selected Projects

Shaping Openness

Shaping Openness - The Show on Code, Architecture and Tools in Research and Education

Inventor and showmaster

Zocurelia

A browser tool to increase the fun of reading together in distributed communities

Inventor and developer

Future | Society | Technology

Ethical and political questions on current technical topics and trends

Co-Initiator, teacher and developer

Project

Modern Publishing

Research and Development Project on Collaborative Writing and Publishing

Team leader, system architect and developer

JOIN

Research project on the strategic positioning of federal states and universities in teaching and learning

Developer, programmer of visualizations, project manager

Insights

Multiauthor blog about the digital field of experimentation at TU Hamburg

Co-initiator, author and administrator

tekethics | Ethics and Technology. Some Issues

Current Topics in Technology from an Ethical Perspective

Co-initiator, concept co-developer, software architect and developer

Hack[a|er]space

Weekly open space for the playful and fearless exploration of hard- and software

Concept co-developer, facilitator and active participant

Hop-on

Helping newcomers find their way in the vocational and academic system in Germany

Co-initiator, software architect and developer

GitLab Instance at TU Hamburg

Instance open to the public for collaboration in Open Education and Open Science projects

Initiator, evangelist, administrator and facilitator

Recent Publications

Axel Dürkop

25.02.20 Dürkop, A. (2020). Zocurelia - Zotero Curated Reading Lists Annotated. Zenodo 2020, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3687258

Zocurelia - Zotero Curated Reading Lists Annotated (Software)

The software provides an interface for the presentation of reading assignments stored in Zotero together with annotations made with Hypothesis.

Code Project

Axel Dürkop

05.11.19 Dürkop, A. (2019). Embedding Openness in the Design Process of Web- based Learning Arrangements. OPINE 2019, Frankfurt a.M.: Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3529579

Embedding Openness in the Design Process of Web-based Learning Arrangements

Open Education means providing access to information and education for everybody so that they can participate in society and be creators of their lives (UNESCO, 2012). With a closer look at the digital landscape these days many implementations of the open education idea appear to be open washing (Weller, 2014) as several studies show: Great numbers of participants in MOOCs can be attributed to the long tail effect and high drop out rates point to the fact that not everybody is made for self-organized online learning (Schulmeister, 2014).

PDF

Axel Dürkop

30.10.19 Dürkop, A., Hagen, F. & Meinecke, I. (2019). Offenheit leben: Kollaboratives Schreiben und Publizieren unter Berücksichtigung der Werte von Open Science. Postervorstellung gehalten auf den Open-Access-Tagen 2019, Hannover. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3267474

Living Openness: Collaborative Writing and Publishing while Respecting the Values of Open Science

The poster shows the socio-technical system that is being developed in the project “Modern Publishing”. Viewed from left to right, it first shows the diverse writing habitat of the authors wiss. Publications that we call Writing Stage. In the middle, along the vertical axis, it is shown how changes to the text lead to an automatic generation of preview documents in HTML, which can be annotated with Hypothesis. At the same time, this pre-submission stage generates various formats of the contribution, which can then be passed to the submission stage in OJS.

Poster

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