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title: "Vancouver 2020 Festival of Learning Grav OER Session"
date: 01/20/2020
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    'twitter:title': 'Vancouver Festival of Learning 2020 Session'
    'twitter:description': 'An overview of my Grav CMS session during the 2020 Festival of Learning in Vancouver, BC May 11-13'
    'twitter:image': 'http://hibbittsdesign.org/blog/posts/2020-01-20-vancouver-2020-festival-of-learning-grav-oer-session/grav-open-publishing-workflow-using-markdown-and-git.jpg'
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I am totally jazzed to be a part of the [2020 Festival of Learning](https://festival.bccampus.ca/) in Vancouver, BC! While I do not know the exact time of my session yet, here is my (draft) session description...

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### 👩‍💻Developing and Sharing Open Resources with Grav

#### Keywords
Markdown Git GravCMS

#### Session Description
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop to this session
Tech-savvy educators and authors - want to support more open and collaborative materials, inside or outside of other platforms? Are you looking for a more flexible workflow and environment than what traditional CMSs like WordPress provides? Faced with these challenges, Paul Hibbitts developed a set of open source components for the file-based [Grav CMS](https://getgrav.org) to work with his [CMPT-363 Canvas course](https://canvas.sfu.ca/courses/47119).

The modern CMS Grav uses the platform-independent Markdown format and enables version-controlled editing with Git services such as GitHub and GitLab. These also naturally support the 5 Rs (Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix and Redistribute) of Open Educational Resources. Integrating Grav pages within other systems (e.g. LMSs) is seamless too - without any content restrictions. In this session, participants will get to explore Markdown and the latest release of Grav with various open education-related projects (such as the Open Course/MultiCourse Hub and Open Publishing Space). You can also learn more about these Grav projects, and others, at [hibbittsdesign.org](https://hibbittsdesign.org).

![Grav Open Publishing Workflow Using Markdown and Git](grav-open-publishing-workflow-using-markdown-and-git.jpg)  
Figure 1 - [Grav Open Publishing Workflow Using Markdown and Git](https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1sfE5TUKPvWy4MUtdRGq7x0Wu1WxorQGE36alrHGxj-s)

#### Research References
[Addressing the Technical Challenges of Open Educational Resources](https://academicworks.cuny.edu/lg_pubs/120/)

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