Hi Greg, Glad to see you pop up on TOS again. I'm also quite interested in following your shift to OER, since I have considerable interest there myself that has been growing in parallel with my interest in OSS participation by students.
I strongly agree with the notion of education commons and software commons as analogous. I'm currently involved with an NSDL project (see computingportal.org) that is organized by "collection" and "community" (see the left two arches on the home page). As the site has evolved it's become clear to me that this is an artificial distinction, and creates the wrong frame of reference. When I raise this, my fellow team members agree, but have not been inclined to integrate collections and communities. This may just be inertia and development time pressure, but I think it also reflects world view. I think the underlying issue springs from the old model of resources as static and separate from the community. The OSS world is very far ahead in replacing that model. I think it's the right direction, but most of the world, and especially librarians and other highly educated people, have not shifted their frame of reference. It's an exciting opportunity. :-) I started this as a reply to Greg DeK only, but decided to share it with TOS because many people on this list can play a role in spreading understanding of what "the open source way" can do in OER. Cheers, Greg Hislop -----Original Message----- From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Greg DeKoenigsberg Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:56 AM To: tos@teachingopensource.org Subject: [TOS] Self reintroduction :) To quote the immortal Jay-Z: allow me to reintroduce myself. I'm Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly of Red Hat, formerly very active on this list. In June I left Red Hat to join a non-profit called the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, or ISKME for short. At ISKME, we care about building the education commons much in the same way that Red Hat cares about building the software commons. Our most famous initiative is OERCommons.org, one of the largest curated collections of open educational resources in the world. My first few months as CTO of ISKME have been overwhelming, to say the least. I'm now starting to get my head above water a bit, which means that I'm hoping to get involved once again in the TOS community, from a bunch of different directions and wearing a bunch of different hats. I figured I'd say hello before I started spamming the list. So, hello. Again. Rock on, TOS folks. --g -- Greg DeKoenigsberg CTO, ISKME g...@iskme.org _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
