I'd like to focus on this one by Jim at USQ.

What about the cost of existing institutional licensing agreements with 
(i)the vendors of LMS software and (ii) publishers who provide access to 
e-library resources, including full text e-content? These financial 
agreements are usually a function of the number of "seats" which are 
provided *only* for an agreed number of officially registered mainstream 
students

*"The suggested solution to these potentially problematic issues is to 
offer OERu courses (based solely on OER and embracing the pedagogy of 
discovery) via Moodle on WikiEducator thereby avoiding financial and 
administrative system interface complexities".
*
Statement: One primary role for OERu in all of this is that it becomes a 
"services provider/broker" to various Access federations. 

Hosting a Moodle on the Wikieducator *domain* is a logical approach, just 
as it does a wiki at the moment. Other open source applications would 
naturally follow (depending on the communities' wants). 

We can see the usual (institutional- centric) approach as SUNY begins to 
outsource its Moodle needs to MoodleRooms, as a host, in a cloud. This 
institutional centric approach is something aggregators like bccampus 
already aim to overcome by brokering, on behalf of a number of 
institutions, relationships with commercial service providers like Adobe, 
Elluminate as well as hosting opensource "apps" like Moodle. 
http://www.bccampus.ca/partnerships/  

I've been suggesting that one of OERu's role is to act as the broker 
between National "access federations" like the aaf as well as other smaller 
(state wide) ones like bccampus. USQ, for example, is already a member of 
the ANZ federation. http://www.aaf.edu.au/subscribe/subscribers/ They share 
access to a range of *catalogu*ed services with other institutional 
subscribers. I can't see any reason why wikieducator/OERu services wouldn't 
be hosted in the aaf cloud, and could be spread from there.

National Access Federations all share one primary focus = to enable *
National* institutions to share "services=apps". They all do this on an 
uncoordinated (between federations) basis already. So each national 
federation has their separate list of service providers. 
https://refeds.terena.org/index.php/Federations 

At present  Access federations are attempting to work though how they share 
services (i.e. ConFederate) on a global basis. The focus for these 
activities always comes down to focussing on a "Virtual Organisation", of 
which OERu is one of the few global ones. OERu is the only I've seen that 
works in the "common services" space (moodles wikis, etc). Most others are 
based around large specialised research production networks like the Hadron 
Collider.

So, as I see it, one of OERu's roles in developing an International network 
is being the entity which aggregates a range of "services" under the one 
domain, which will be common to all access federations; An "honest broker" 
if you will. The main services (in such a platform) will be the kind that 
will support these governance meetings. 

WE have seen during this open meeting that there "is there a model where 
students get some recognition that is perhaps skills / outcomes based that 
is not as bound by governance and accreditation" (as mentioned by SNHU, 
even if their names haven't been mentioned so far:). It's based on, not 
only capturing/distributing these open governance meetings on a(n 
increasingly) professional basis, but also working through the 
development/Confederation of (open access) platforms, which will include 
other institutions. (if for no other reason than it saves duplication and 
money)

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