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title:  'Welcome'
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      <h1 class='text-uppercase'>What if course material could...</h1>
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        <li><p>be <b class='blue'>co-created</b> by teachers, students and the professional field?</p></li>
        <li><p>make full use of <b class='blue'>interactive</b> web tools?</p></li>
        <li><p><b class='blue'>transcend</b> courses and span multiple subjects?</p></li>
        <li><p>promote a <b class='blue'>personal</b> learning approach?</p></li>
        <li><p>be <b class='blue'>shared</b> with the educational community?</p></li>
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      <h2 class='text-justify'>Open Webslides provides a platform to create course material that
          promotes co-creation and makes full use of modern web technologies to
          promote an (inter)active and accessible learning environment.
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      <h3 class='text-uppercase'>Course material is in dire need of modernization.</h3>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-sm-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-arrow-right bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10"> <b class="blue">Education</b> is still too often a <b class="blue">one-way street</b>, where students are expected to
        simply digest the material with little to no activity or agency on their part.</dd>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-sm-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-time bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10">Welcoming and <b class="blue">processing feedback</b> from students or colleagues is not a streamlined,
          elegant process but can instead be a <b class="blue">time-consuming chaos</b>.</dd>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-md-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-play bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10"><b class="blue">Embedding media</b> or flipped classroom tools is either impossible or <b class="blue">not</b> as <b class="blue">straightforward</b> as it should be.</dd>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-md-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10">Learning material is often <b class="blue">reliant</b> on specific versions of <b class="blue">closed software</b> packages that are no longer
        supported on older machines but also do not work on modern mobile devices.</dd>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-md-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-file bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10">Placing one subject’s narrative in a <b class="blue">bigger picture</b> by linking to other courses is <b class="blue">difficult</b> at best due to technological constraints.</dd>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-md-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-blackboard bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10"><b class="blue">Ideas</b> for better learning material are <b class="blue">not</b> always <b class="blue">shared</b> or <b class="blue">implemented</b> on a large enough scale that could benefit the educational community.</dd>
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      <h3 class='text-uppercase'>Open Webslides offers this needed modernization.</h3>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-md-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-user bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10"> Webslides features a <b class="blue">user-friendly</b> and clear platform for the <b class="blue">co-creation</b> of learning material, thus allowing the various stakeholders (fellow teachers, students, researchers, ...)
            to partake in the creation of educational content.</dd>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-md-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-piggy-bank bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10">We fully support the open source philosophy. Webslides <b class="blue">work on every device</b> and are <b class="blue">completely free</b> to use. As such, their usage is not limited to classrooms nor to
            groups who have the financial strength to license closed software packages.</dd>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-md-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-globe bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10">Webslides allow linking to and including other courses and publications. This in turn, promotes <b class="blue">multiperspectivism</b> and broader narrative that is often lacking in today’s educational landscape.</dd>
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          <dt class="col-sm-1 col-xs-2 col-md-offset-1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-duplicate bigger-icon"></span></dt>
          <dd class="col-sm-10 col-xs-10">Webslides give teachers the <b class="blue">option to share</b> their work, not only with their immediate environment but with a much broader audience as well, benefiting the entire educational landscape.</dd>
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