Free Range Edtech

OpenETC

Putting powerful web building toolkits in the hands of the ETUG community

A few examples from Trubox and the BC OpenETC :

Infographic titled “Websites in Your Course” with icons and text describing different uses of websites in teaching, such as showcasing student work, sharing resources, and supporting collaboration.

NIC Fine Art Template

Knowledge Makers

Websites in Your Course

Cyborg Goddess Podcast

OpenETC Podcast Setup Guide

Digital Learning for Innovative Teaching

Cred X Symposium

Infographic titled “TRU Open Press” showing a flow of open publishing steps including Create, Review, Publish, and Share, with icons representing each stage in the open education publishing process.

TRU Open Press

OEGlobal Awards

Leticia Kanywuiro – Utamaduni Bora

Simulated Client Records – Project Story

Career Exploration (ESTR)

Indigenous People in Education

Sharing the OpenETC toolkit

The OpenETC community works together to make web resource building faster, more effective, and more accessible.

  • Sharing and building on each other’s work, economies of scale for themes, plugins, custom development.
  • Cloning websites allows for much more rapid and effective development, and the creation of structured “starter sites” for generic or specific uses.
  • Form-based authoring (SPLOT shout-out) allows for simpler, account free processes. This lightens the training and support requirements and does not require the user’s personal information.

The ongoing evolution of WordPress (Gutenberg blocks, Full Site Editing (FSE) themes has us rebuilding the toolkit to make these new features more accessible, and to make them useful to the OpenETC community.

New design options being developed now

Whether you’re a digital novice or a web design enthusiast, our platform meets you where you are.

Full site templates

Developing a fully customizable FSE theme, and sharing starter frameworks

Customizable patterns

Modify our pre-built patterns for content layouts that match your specific design needs.

Creative control

For advanced users, build custom designs with access to our curated block plugin collection.

What’s cooking…

Base theme

Purpose-built Home Page Templates

Patterns Gallery

Crud-free block plug-ins

FSE Toolset Submitter Theme

FSE Toolset Map Submitter Theme

Infographic titled “Ready to Run” outlining key steps for course readiness, with icons and labels such as Review Content, Set Up Tech, Communicate with Students, and Test Everything, arranged in a checklist format.

Come home for a roost…

OpenETC Home Brian Lamb – blamb@tru.ca