Hi Simon, We are convening an international open planning meeting working towards the establishment of the "OER Universit <http://OER_University>y"
UNESCO has provided sponsorship for the planning meeting to be streamed, and the meeting will be designed to facilitate input form all the groups you mention. So hopefully these groups will convene and help plan and collaborate on building a sustainable OER ecosystem. You can register remote attendance here and we'll ping your with details about the meeting and the stream closer to the time: http://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students/Meetings 2011 will be a quantum shift year for OER! Cheers Wayne On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:09 PM, simonfj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At the heart of the Global U is this institution we call The Library. > > Absolutely! I think this is the case for for all media affected by the > shift in publishing paradigm, regardless of sector. > It's (sustainable) economics are supported by the shift in network > architecture - from institutional client/server to national and > international collaborative group 'clouds'. OER can't come of age, and > won't get an institutional buy in, until the economics of cloud > infrastructure are understood & adopted. The evolution is similar to > the shift from mainframe/dumb terminal to client/server models. > > Certainly the idea of bringing a National/Global peer.edu group > together to produce a shared library of content will save > duplications; that's one huge positive. That said, the question is how > OER's may encourage their (National institutional) network providers > to; > > 1. Provide 'their' global groups with (access to) their preferred > applications. At the moment this primarily means the real time apps, > like voice, web conferencing, streaming,storage, etc. The savings here > simply make the new OER paradigm's economics, and wider social- > ability, more obvious. In NREN technical terms, this means creating a > library of apps. which can be shared nationally/globally. Until these > are agreed upon, global OERers must do like WE do - go cap in hand to > the larger wikipedia world or ask for support by their closest > institution = the otagos of this world who would save money by > adopting a cloud/shared library architecture. > 2. Provide their global groups with the storage required, near to > their global co-users. The dreaded internet wait has been overcome, to > a degree, by content deliverers like akamai. But the real OER > revolution starts with the sharing of 'peering routes' between NREN's. > Techs talk about 'on net' and off net'. To simplify, if global groups > are 'on net', their National networks don't run up charges. If they > work 'off net' (between NRENs, they do. > 3. Federate their identities. This means that when you sign on to your > institution, you will have reciprocal arrangements (rights and > responsibilities) with all the other institutions, to the same library > of apps, on the same (NRE)Network. Up to now most of this has > (obviously) taken place on a National basis. The discussions in many > of the NREN's is now about confederating these identities > internationally). The problem is that OERers, in their global > communities of interest (as they are called at OCWC), haven't engaged > these technicians just yet, or vice versa. > 4. The last, and most important, paradigm shift, is what Melville > Dewey focussed on in the 1870's, when steam powered printing presses > had overwhelmed .edu institutions with their info = a directory. This > is one area which is going to change lots of institutionally- limitedl > mindsets (I hope, this year). Take a look at Internet2's co-manage > page and you'll find them talking about a directory for 'external > groups' (external of their NRENs). Sounds like OER community group's > (and their communities of interest) to me. > http://www.internet2.edu/comanage/ > > We're (OERers) are still in a mindset which has us separating info and > comms, even though both travel down the same IP pipe. That's why WE > can't go mainstream (just yet). Every time WE reach to use a 'product' > like Elluminate, we pay license fees to a third party (software) > publisher, as opposed to insisting that the techs at projects like the > Accessgrid and EVO simplify their (open source) interfaces. If you do > a search on 'Big Blue Button', you'll find a few NREN techs who are > focussed on this problem. > > OK. Sorry for my wordiness. I write in order to clarify my thinking. > Is there a chance WE might consider putting up a strategy page, so WE > can get an idea of one another's thinking? > So far as Planning/strategy events I'm hoping OER will be a buzzword > at a few techie events this year, even if it means having presenters > presenting remotely. My 'main' events would be questnet (in Aus), > Terena (in Europe) and one of Inernet2's quarterly (US) get > togethers. > 2011. The year when WE "go it". > regards, simon > > -- > 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] > -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. 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