Hi Greg, I'm also glad to see you on TOS again. I'm very interested in open education and the education commons and look forward to hearing more about your activities with OER and ISKME. One of the things on my agenda at Trinity this semester is to try to get a group of like-minded colleagues to join the MIT OpenCourseWare project. Thus far my feeble efforts at Trinity have met with the kind of inertia that Greg Hislop mentions -- even among friends. But I think this (i.e., open courses, open resources, open curricula) is where higher education should be headed.
Best, -- ralph On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Gregory Hislop <hisl...@drexel.edu> wrote: > 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 >
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