Simon, The OERu can't innovate on too many fronts at this time. To achieve success in the short to medium term we must avoid the temptation to innovate beyond the capacity of society, the economy and our formal education institutions to implement the innovation. In this sense, I see innovation is creativity successfully implemented.
The power of the open governance and open philanthropy model is that the network federation innovators have the freedom to mature as a node within the OER ecosystem in parallel with what we are doing. In time the "Eureaka" moment to which you refer will occur. Experience shows that many successful innovations occur between the grey areas of overlap between core movements and ideas. There is a substantial risk for the OER Foundation to try and be the umbrella which brings all these parts together to soon because then we risk becoming a "Leatherman" tool that tries to do everything, but none of the individual "apps" of the "Leatherman" tool really works well. We need to leave the global federated network innovations to those who are better positioned and experienced to achieve the vision. It will happen in time through the open philosophy. The OERu imperative and strategic focus is to achieve free learning opportunities for all students worldwide in the shortest possible time. 98 million learners who will be excluded from the formal education sector in the coming years depend on our success. The OER Foundation aims to develop the prototypes which wiill demonstrate the model within the next year. We need to keep our focus. Wayne On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM, simonfj <[email protected]> wrote: > I always find that good minds underestimate themselves. I'm not sorry to > say that you do too. Mind you, considering your work pace, you've gotta say > "enough" sometiimes. > > You've got your feet planted firmly on the ground; with the head not (yet) > in the "clouds". And thank God for that. > > Just give it time. The penny will drop. As you've pointed out, the aim is > to "provide easy ways to integrate OERu learning resource (at one domain I > would think) which we can deliver to any LMS from WikiEducator" (which is > the domain you're going to integrate at, I would think). You can host the > domain anywhere. If you do it at an IP address which is accessible via a > federation's memberships institutional account, you have your network. > Probably saved yourself a lot of hosting and bandwidth charges as well. > > We can't stop the slow evolution of the new network model. i.e. sharing > apps on an open network; any more than the OERu members want to share their > content (at the moment) on separate ones. One is a federation of (access > to) shared content, the other a federation of (access to) shared > applications=services. > > The network federation guys have done their thing, so far as their little > (National/ANZ) perspectives are concerned. And they are floundering because > most content communities expect them to look outside their National domains > and say, "we're a global community." (look at out get togethers!) > > From my perspective you are one of the leaders in the art of "open > governance", which is quite an imaginative art. If you'd like to see what > one of your peers in the .gov.au space is doing, it's here. > http://digiculture.wikispaces.com/ You can see the commonality in > approaches (on a national basis, not global like your own). > > So let's not rush at this. As I track down others peers in different > countries, the commonality in the tools they prefer to use becomes more > apparent. You know how de Bono's "ah ha" effect works. The logic of a new > model is perfectly obvious once all the pieces are understood. > > BTW. Most community's same the same thing. "Bring your partners to the > table. We don't have the resources". Most of the time that's only because > they don't understand how networks work and what is possible. e.g. > http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1111/S00035/internet2-and-ipv6-provide-new-opportunities-for-music.htm > But hey! We're all learning. (in the art of open governance) me especially. > All the best. > > -- > 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] > -- 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]
