Hi Wayne, I hope you don't mind if i throw this one in. But you know I think as much about the OE stuff, although I'm more interested in the way that the (NREN) network guys address the same things. i.e. compared to the 'resources' which gets passed around and stored in them.
I've given you the story that networks are built around National institutions, not the global communities like WE. And you;ll know my interest is more about how the Open Education (network) resources are developed more by global communities than each NREN reinventing their smao samo wheel. We'll, we've got as far as the techs at terena (trans euro research and education network association), after their last meeting in Athens (which was linked with a few other sites around Europe, including moi in madrid unis telecommunications lab), starting to talk to the guys at both mediamosa and opencast. Both open source. I'll point you at a page in opencast where you can see the the other 'affliated projects'. http://www.opencastproject.org/project/open_u http://www.mediamosa.org/node/20 Now we're getting down to 'comparing features' & I've got to try and convince academics to "consider the customer" - you know, the content builders like WE who don't want to know about the geek stuff; 'just give us the functionality'. (not trying to be rude here:) How do we work from the demand side? (val's nice rhetoric). i think in the first instance we need to start building our global communties at every conference we can. The wiki way is a model which isn't so easily seen in the real time (geek) world. I wish i could somehow show the grunt standing behind this innocuous virtual conference site. http://vcc.dit.upm.es/spaces/global - and explain how it aligns with the way a wiki brings global people to a spot in cyberspace, in real time. But you've got a better imagination than I. Some of us tend to believe that education has moved from "by delivery" to "through inquiry", where spoonfeeding is being replaced by 'shared mastication'. (don't we). So when you're on the forum at yale will you ask them why they're being so uninclusive. Boy could I suggest a few potential projects, after ben and you have given us your perspectives of course. BTW. Where's fred? http://openedconference.org/archives/1069 At the risk of crossing the academic boundaries, this is where I'd suggest for funding. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/foi/events/fippp/index_en.htm And randy, you little pun artist, very nice. -- 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, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
