Designing 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 and Participatory Workflows in Research and Teaching, Workshops on User Story Mapping, Learning Design and Engineering, Teaching in Higher Education

Selected Projects

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

BRIDGING

Transfer of Digital Higher Education Concepts | An Empirical Approach

Tech facilitator, open research data manager, developer

tekethics | Ethics and Technology. Some Issues

Current Topics in Technology from an Ethical Perspective

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

open[learning]spaces

Exploring Learning Communities Worldwide

Co-initiator and researcher

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

Dürkop, Ladwig

30.10.18 In Markdown & Pandoc (2nd ed., pp. 196–205). Graz: ebooks.kofler.

Kollaborativ schreiben mit GitLab (in German)

This article describes a workflow of writing together with Markdown and Pandoc in GitLab. The online platform is used in conjunction with Docker as a content management system. Digital artefacts are generated online with every user contribution.

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Dürkop

28.04.17 TU Hamburg: Seminar textbook

Einführung in die Informationstechnik I & II

The script was developed to experiment with a production workflow based on Markdown, GitBook, GitLab and Docker. It was nominated for the OER Award 2017 in the category “Aus- und Berufsbildung”.

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