Many thanks Wayne, Carina, please don't think I'm having a go at you. I just hate to see wayne overworked (which he is all the time).
I'll only make one comment on the problem with engaging NREN guys. They really do want to help. It's just that mouse trap builders language is sooo different to that of OER cheese makers. Also, the stuff that most cheese makers see as e-learning tools are lumped together as "commodity internet" by the network guys and largely discounted. "Let google, facebook, Elluminate, etc, look after those (web) apps. We'll provide access to that social stuff for users via an institutional user's account/log in. We want to R&D the high bandwidth (engineeringly challenging) stuff". Boys and their toys. But the twain is starting to meet. There's a global group of (institutional) authentication guys, who are starting to push. http://refeds.org/ Eventually they're going to have to answer the broader institutional questions around providing citizen's with a lifelong learning account.http://www.eid-ssedic.eu/index.php? option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=100056 They just lack the input of lots of global (disciplinary) groups, like OERers in the elearning space, who can define the combination(s) of "common services" which they want to share. And a scheme which provides a directory to a global disciplinary group's/community's info and comms. OK. This is the call out of the ec. Check out the "work programme". http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.cooperationDetailsCallPage&call_id=319#infopack I've already pointed to where the discussions around this call work their way through, from Brussels, to the Asian end. But you'd have to be across the LinkedIn groups and conferences that the EC's contractors (Sigma Orionis) have been running (in Asia Pacific, SE Asia, Europe & Africa) to see the 'common service' requirements starting to form up. This is the Euro end. http://paradiso-fp7.eu/ You've seen the sea(coop) end of the same discussions. I don't know what your relationships are like with NICTA. But one aim would be to add a "Common services" tag off terry's page. http://www.nicta.com.au/business/broadband_and_the_digital_economy I've pointed to the Aussie short list of common services on the aaf site. (which they never use of course). At least we can start talking about OER and "common services" as two sides of the open e-science, e-gov, e-ducation, coin. Now if only we can get policy makers out of the habit of believing that public servants will be "delivering" services online. Look. Can yu start us on in the wiki space. You've got a much bigger oer perspective than i have. You've got the model right. But I'm thinking in terms of the comms like http://tiny.cc/zx9an not the oer info. I can fill in the infrastructure overview better if I can understand what you have in mind in aggregating and distributing oer content. I've also got to start brushing up on my rusty video skills. Somehow, we've got to explain stuff like this. http://tiny.cc/id8zh to some web designers and their bosses at the ec. http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?lg=en&pg=forum so we can get these guys to coordinate their activites. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ncps_en.html I've given myself 3 (warm) months in Thailand to get something in front of the country funders. If we don't get it together for this call, then it's the one after. Kop jai, 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]
