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) -- 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]
