[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Transcending OER's "valley of death" -- From OER advocacy to mainstream adoption.

2010-12-20 Thread simonfj
Merry Xmas Wayne, You know I agree with all you are trying to achieve. The problem with progressing these things is how WE might be able to collaborate with other communities (like Moodle) in achieving them. The main thing you point out is that the wiki MODEL is the right one (not the technology

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Transcending OER's "valley of death" -- From OER advocacy to mainstream adoption.

2010-12-12 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Simon, Agreed on all the components you suggest for building a sustainable OER ecosystem. However, in the absence of real organisations in the formal education system committing time, resources (and real dollars) to achieving these objectives, OER will remain a peripheral activity of the OER en

[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Transcending OER's "valley of death" -- From OER advocacy to mainstream adoption.

2010-12-10 Thread simonfj
Hmmm, "Valley of death" eh? OK, WE want to take the OE(R) movement into the mainstream. So can we forget how much content we might produce (for a sec) and think about the infrastructure a global "300" might need to do a charge forward. The 'mainstream' is a series of networks which .edu content

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Transcending OER's "valley of death" -- From OER advocacy to mainstream adoption.

2010-12-08 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Kirby, Lots of valuable insight in your post - -thanks :-). I think there are important lessons for the OER to be derived from the experiences of the free software movement. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:42 PM, kirby urner wrote: < The quality of the free stuff will be very important, as that's

[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Transcending OER's "valley of death" -- From OER advocacy to mainstream adoption.

2010-12-08 Thread kirby urner
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > Hi Everyone, << abbrev >> > We extend an open invitation to international agencies like COL and UNESCO > to join us. We extend an open invitation to all formerly registered tertiary > education providers of the world to join us. We expec