On Apr 5, 1:03 am, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-t...) > > 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. ==================================
Thanks Wayne, (and excuse a stroppy old engineer) Can we start here and work backwards. I've made a few notes on the conference's cloudworks space. It's the only place where OER's appear to be trying to be inclusive. http://www.cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3316 I don't know Ben Janssen. But he would be across the "emerging dutch case". It's the only national strategy which I've seen which comes down out of the clouds. (excuse the pun). http://openedconference.org/archives/1069 They look past the idealism and focus on what are the most practical ways of acheiving some concrete goals. "strategy innovation work" vs. "plan". The dutch seem to be more down to earth than the anglo speaking world. They know that OER means nothing unless the contents have a network to sit in, which is connected to/shared with, others. Hopefully ben will know some of the SURFnet guys (Franz Ward is the name in terena's action group) , and about mimosa. http://www.mediamosa.org/node/20 (a dutch version of opencast). This is a good approach because their 'front end' / 'back end' explanation of mediamosa enables OER content developers and OER network engineers to separate into their own(potentially) complementary worlds. Beats having them ignore one another forever, as they do. They also think a bit broader about OER, which is why the Dutch National library seems to have instigated this euro wide oer collection. Oh look! there's a door open. http://www.europeana.eu/portal/communities.html So far as the UK (OU) is concerned, it's a bit barren of original thought. Lot's of good intentions though. The OU did have a play at doing the usual real time (chat, video conferencing, etc) approach a few years ago, which was getting there. But it's so much easier to talk about the number of courses 'manufactured', so the back end developments just disappeared. You could also ask David Kernohan what ever happened to Janetcollaborate = another expensive samo project, another silo. They should find that "the dutch case" will provide some logic to reorganising all of their wonderfully round wheels. We really must put together a project for funding, But that will take some time considering that we don't have the OER networked culture yet. (catch 22 eh?) . Let's move this along now. The discussion in terena's secretariat is shortly going to get around to actually using an online place rather than designing, building and then ignoring it. E.g http://moril.eadtu.nl/ Maybe we should think about in which domain WE's might want these kinds of OER tools, and how they could be structured to be intuitive. I'd suggest something like www.oer.eu if you want to take a euro perspective. Or maybe we just move them into the europeana domain. Reagrdless, could you ask the yale guys if they would stream the workshop? -- 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.
