Thanks Wayne, You know I'm not sure if you realize that you keep pointing at the obvious problem every uni has; "sorry we don't control the IP of external publishers". It's not "external publishers" IP of course. It belongs to the people who (in this case, are trying to encourage) unis to "open their minds".
Uni researchers (in particular) must pay, via their institutional librarians, to access the aggregations of publishers, which are, after all, simply convenient databases of different unis' authors put together on some global basis by a publisher. It's not as though (with all the technology inside NRENs) they are necessary. Even the peer review is usually done by an author's global mates. Publishers simply take advantage of the unis' lack of imagination. Anyone these days can open up any closed situation by taking a handycam and computer (with wireless access) along, or even just blog a conference. So WE know there's simply no need to have a reporter between "the live" and "the report". That's why the commercial media news comes to us via five global gateways these days. (AAP, Reuters, Thomson, etc). It's the only profitable way of wrapping advertising around "the content". (which is there to separate the ads) Publicly funded media is just having a hard time reinventing itself. Ultimately, WE all just want a place in fixed cyberspace (a url) where we know "our disciplinary/subject specific mates get together for a natter or a conference; where anything which is covered by a particular global group can be streamed live as well as preserved for the long term. And if WE do it sociably, the "space" is bound to attract a global community of interest. QED = WE. The need for a directory is obvious. But professional curators and professional network managers are simply too busy to actually concentrate "their" users. So let's admit to ourselves that this has nothing to do with "unis being open minded". Even if such a stupid comment could be understood - unis don't think, the people inside them do - we already know that they are open minded. WE prove that. The problem is simply that WE don't aggregate "our content" on the basis of "our" global group. It's still about trying to gain credibility by saying. "I come from xxx institution." And new institution never begins like that. N.B Where institution has this meaning. http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002154.html WE should also keep in mind that many uni students, after they have been handed a piece of paper by their uni, go back to their video games and employment queue. The number is 40% in south europe, and rising. Few have curricula which can keep up with the demand for new skills and techniques. E.g. No uni runs a course for employment network design. That's done by companies like Cisco who are reinventing technology daily. So the old .edu institutions are becoming less relevant. >From what I can see, very few edu institutions focus on "the learning". It's all about "teaching" - and the two are opposite poles. One's done in classroom, the other in a library. No guesses for which one is (done in) which. On Mar 15, 8:53 am, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > More international coverage on the OER university. > > Following Sir John's keynote address in Sydney on 8 March where he referred > to the OER university <http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/Home> as > making the original "examination only" concept look extremely modern and a > system that would reduce the cost of higher education dramatically > (see:http://www.col.org/resources/speeches/2011presentation/Pages/2011-03-...), > the Campus Review, Australia has published the following article: > > Universities need to open minds on digital learning and > teaching<http://www.campusreview.com.au/pages/section/article.php?s=News&idArt...> > . > > (Unfortunately to read the article -- you will need to register for a free > online trial of Campus Review -- sorry we don't control the IP of external > publishers.) > > Cheers > Wayne > -- > 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. > Founder and elected Community Council Member, > WikiEducator<http://www.wikieducator.org> > Mobile+64 21 2436 380begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +64 21 2436 > 380 end_of_the_skype_highlighting > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | > identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> -- 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]
