How do you plan and implement a global and open planning meeting to establish the OER university (OERu) network with more than 30 participating countries?
The OERu will provide free learning opportunities for all students worldwide with pathways to gain formal academic credit form the 13 Founding anchor partners. (We hope that all accredited institutions will join us in the future -- but we have achieved the critical mass to move forward -- working with a few global OER pioneers.) The OER Foundation subscribes to radical transparency. We conduct all our planning activities openly in WikiEducator. This week, 13 Foundation Anchor partners will convene face-to-face in Dunedin, New Zealand for the OERu implementation planning meeting. Our challenge has been to provide scalable ways for the world to participate openly in this planning meeting. This is what we are planning to do -- (I hope it works): - All plenary sessions will be streamed<http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oeru>live on the Internet with thanks to funding support from UNESCO - We will support a live backchannel using microbloging (Identi.ca and Twitter). #OERu posts will displayed live on a separate data projector and screen for the face-to-face participants in New Zealand. Virtual participants will be able to post questions via the #OERu feed during the live panel sessions. - BCcampus are helping the OERF with technical support and will set up a few Etherpad documents as collaborative, real-time editing spaces for the virtual break-out groups working. The virtual groups will be working in parallel with the face-to-face breakout groups in Dunedin. - Each group feedback session will include feedback from the virtual participant group(s) -- yes virtual feedback can influence the decision-making process of the OERu founding anchor partners. - Decisions made by the founding anchor partners will be recorded live in WikiEducator. The information hub for all these activities and links is the meeting agenda page we have been drafting in the wiki: Meeting participants should bookmark this page: http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/2011.11_OERu_Meeting_Agenda - Green shaded blocks show the live plenary webstream slots - International time zone links are provided for each live plenary (start scheduling your diaries according to local time zones) - Place holder links for separate etherpad docs for the virtual breakout sessions and the pdf summary of the SCoPE seminar recommendation for inaugural credential -- we'll post these soon. - Have added QR code graphics for easy linking to the relevant webpages for folk who would like to follow the meeting using their mobile devices. If you want to participate and join our planning team, you should register as a virtual participant. Your registration will enable the OER foundation to provide you with the instructions and support information to participate in this landmark meeting. You can register here: http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/2011.11_OERu_virtual_meeting_participants Look forward to seeing all OER supporters online next week. With kind regards 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 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> Wikiblog <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog> -- 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]
