> For example, WikiEducator and Wikiversity may be perceived by some as > "competing" projects -- but I don't buy into this rational. We are all > collaborating as nodes in the free culture network contributing towards the > vision of free access to the world's knowledge.
YO! > It seems to me that we should work towards facilitating the connections and > remix opportunities among open content projects. This is a key strategic > focus of the OER Foundation -- namely to facilitate the evolution of the OER > ecosystem. Our work in building OER content interoperability between > Connexions and Mediawiki software being a prime example. > > I agree -- alliances, partnerships and technology infrastructure are the > gaps we need to resolve :-) Just going through the WE 'operational' page, and seeing that Marketing is the next step. One required bridge, as I see it, is between this lovely community of content creators and their peers who prefer other tools, and the geeks (Ok, engineers). You'll know in my mind this comes down to the geeks in NREN, so I'll point you at what i think is going to be the hub of my geekish universe next year. http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/ (Bottom of the page) Terena seem to be place for me, primarily because Amsterdam and Spain are nice places and their NREN's speak a bunch of languages. (should be a challenge) Anglos always miss the rest of the world. WE is primarily in the text and graphics space, but I'm an old audio/ video engineer and "real time' needs a lot more work between NREN's than the web stuff, particularly as sometimes you'll want to skype and other times, run an Accessgrid conference. (and the difference between the two is just allocating bandwidth) I know that WE is in the edu space, whereas from what I'm picking up, the real driver is coming from the .gov area. (Inclusion is the catchcry around the global traps. Digital Engagement is the slogan). Let me point you at this one. http://www.terena.org/activities/media/ws2/programme.html It's about media. If you look around at their other taskforces you'll see their PR and marketing people are crossing into this (media management) space. Another is trying to get the "common service portfolios" aligned. http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-msp/meetings/20090915/ They need to get a handle on the WE's of this world rather than the institutionally centric old farts. I'm really going to need a few WE people to make them culturally aware (sharing a blog over there would help the conservative euros get their head around the WE paradigm, and being sociable). This will give you an idea of a tool which might be useful to the WE (and WMF) communties. http://www.global-project.eu/ (Hit the link to the virtual conference centre) to get some idea of what the guys down at Madrid uni are putting together. There are lots of others of course. But i think you'll find that the idea of global groups will begin to form into subject specific hubs before too long, rather than just single tools. The idea of running (A/web/V) conferences in a domain - broadcasting, streaming, and keeping the recordings where they are broadcast from would seem to be a common requirement. So i hope you're talking to KAREN. Sooner or later we'll have to start running a few global workshops and see if we can't get the conversations happening. BTW. We're starting to see a thing called distributed conferences starting i.e. 3 sites with local groups and 1 agenda. Would be nice to see the WMF/WE run a few for their strategy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
