You are right! This comment was very appropriate and thoughftul. Timely. Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:13 PM, simonfj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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