Hi Everyone I've been spending a little time thinking strategically about overcoming the challenges of OER silos in ways which enable individual projects to achieve more. This is part of the remit of the OER Foundation -- namely to foster the development of sustainable OER ecosystems. So I've been toying with a few ideas which are coming together under a draft concept called "CollabOERate" -- with attribution to Wikirandy for this great pun. Gee -- you gotta love open collaboration.
This is very much a draft concept and is an emergent concept being developed openly in the wiki. Hopefully a few of our OER thought leaders and WikiEducators can refine and tweak as we go along. I think this has the potential for to facilitate real social change, but at the same time add-value to all our OER projects and endeavours. A tough challenge - collaboration is not easy, but I think we can pull this off as loing as we play by the open philanthropy rules. I'm planning to test the ideas for the project during the showcase session at the Hewlett Grantees Meeting. I'm fortunate enough to be joining a panel talking about our work in establishing a national OER commons for the New Zealand school sector. Thoughts? How do we make this better? Take a look and let me know what you think -- feel free to edit (and naturally add your name if this makes sense.) Be bold and improve as you see fit. http://wikieducator.org/OERF:CollabOERate Exciting times .... Lets make the future happen and effect some of that real social change :-D. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- 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] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
