User:JimTittsler
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| Website: | Mastodon: @jimt@social.onjapan.net BlueSky: @jimt.onjapan.net X: @jtittsler LinkedIn profile GitHub GitLab | ||||
| Blog: | User:JimTittsler/Blog  | ||||
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In December, 2025, Otago Polytechnic decided to close the Open Education Resources Foundation. This implied the imminent closure of WikiEducator. After waiting a few months, hoping some organization or someone would step forward, I contacted the polytech and was able to arrange the transfer of the domain name(s) and file assets. This took them a couple of months to arrange, but as of June, 2026, I am now the host and again the system administrator of WikiEducator.
I was the Lead Tech at the OER Foundation, helping to develop and maintain WikiEducator and the technologies behind the OERu. I was also a developer of the eXe eLearning XHTML Editor project and promoted the adoption of WikiEducator by teachers in New Zealand as a way to both (1) produce open educational resources that can be freely used across NZ schools and (2) strengthen networks of peers through collaboration in that development.
I have demonstrated a variety of ways to deploy WikiEducator content. I've prototyped a web service that allows exporting a collection of pages as an IMS Common Cartridge or IMS Content Package.
About Me
I am one of the founders of the Tokyo Linux Users Group and a long-time Python programmer. In real life, I am an active radio amateur (ham radio operator) (7J1AJH, ZL2IA, AI8A). I also enjoy hiking and swimming.
I've lived in several places in the United States. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and went to university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I worked in southwestern Michigan (St. Joseph), Los Angeles (Chatsworth), and Silicon Valley. Moving to Tokyo, Japan, in 1990 got me closer to many of the manufacturers that I was working with, and I enjoyed living there for about 16 years. In late 2006, I moved to Gisborne, New Zealand (map) for a couple of years to participate in the eXe project, and then the Open Education Resource movement and WikiEducator. In 2010, I had the chance to live in Te Anau (map), in the remote Fiordland corner of New Zealand. At the end of 2013, I returned to Tokyo, and then at the end of 2019, moved to the seaside town of Ito.
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