Hi Simon, I agree -- opencast / NREN is a very significant "node" in the OER ecosystem. From my perspective -- I see this as one of the strategic projects which can contribute to taking OER to a new level and possibly as a CollabOERate project?
Observing the OER landscape as an international movement -- I think there are considerable opportunities for improving strategic collaboration for the benefit of individual projects -- and I agree, we should do our best to avoid the temptation of creating our own rounder wheels ;-). The CollabOERate concept aims to address some of these gaps -- think about CollabOERate as a virtual (but global) R&D space to identify and collaborate on strategic projects for the benefit of all involved in the OER movement. (http://wikieducator.org/OERF:CollabOERate ). There is a noticeable gap on the strategy innovation front for the OER field (taking into account that this is part of the natural maturation cycle of the movement). BTW -- I saw early prototypes of this kind of strategy innovation work at the Centre for Open and Sustainable Learning -- but since David has moved on to BYU, I think there has bee a shift in focus and I see less of this kind of OER specific strategy prototype work. (Thankfully David is not considering a move away from BYU as announced on 1 April 2010 -- http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1343 ) ;-) In order for this to work -- I think CollabOERate needs to base the concept on the principles of Open Philanthropy --- and much of my thinking here is based on the foresight of Mark Surman (see: http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/open-philanthropy-and-a-theory-of-change/) CollabOERate is a remix ("hack") of the open philanthropy concept for the OER world. When I'm over at the Yale conference -- I'll try and find out who is interested in taking this idea forward. Exciting times -- lets make OER futures happen! Cheers Wayne On 4 April 2010 06:10, simonfj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. 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