> That said - -through collaboration we can expand webinar sessions in > parrallel with initiative designed for large-scale international > collaboration. > > Cheers > Wayne
Prospero Año all, Wayne, Can i suggest you talk to Nick Jones about the WE community being the globally-minded guinea pigs for developing some large scale international collaboration. http://nz.linkedin.com/in/nickdjones Had the pleasure of meeting him at surfnet, and he tells me you know one another. The prime point of focus being this US initiative. http://www.internet2.edu/comanage/ N.B. surfnet's COIN project which is linked on the same page. You can see wikis are one of the apps they've targeted. You'll notice the 'external group directory' inside the "External organizations' space(in gray), which the the global alignment of groups (and their communities of interest) which WE/OCWC and other (institutionalized) open educators have set themselves. I'm reading that OER's have a 'value proposition' for all institutions, although I've never seen this spelt out. The same can be said for 'real time' tools, like Elluminate. The value proposition here is quite simple. Institutions don't have to pay for proprietary software's license fees (or use their proprietary formats) if their NREN's collaborate & use/develop the same open source ones (which they are doing on an ad hoc basis). There are also massive savings in transmissions/streaming/ environmental costs to be made if WE can get them to focus on a sociable global community. At the risk of watching your eyes glaze over, you might like to read the last para from this one. http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com/2010/12/need-for-national-public-intenet-npi.html I thought I should bring this up now as one of my resolutions this year is to attempt and get the (open) 'content' people = the petrol blenders, the cheese makers, and the (open) pipe people = the car manufacturers, the mousetrap builders, together to collaborate. They can't do that until they take a little time to understand one another's worlds. -- 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]
