Hi Simon, Thanks for the note! We're heading out the door to the Open Education conference, so a more detailed reply will have to wait -- but thank you for adding to the page, and thank you for the well considered ideas!
Have you signed up on our Wikipedia project page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Communicate_OER_Team -Pete On Oct 15, 2012, at 10:46 PM, simonfj wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Just created a link to the WP "open research" article off your > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Communicate_OER_Content page > > You'll also notice Wayne is suggesting the idea of an open (research) journal > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/wikieducator/QqqfdUJvcVI/discussion > > So we're beginning to see R&E come together in the OER (and a few other) > space(s). > > As far as the primary linkaging with WP is concerned, I suppose Daniel > Mietchen - Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science and interested in linking > OER with Open Access and Wikimedia - is the key pin. Open science and Open > research being 2 degrees apart. > > Now i understand that the aim of your project is to "(Communicate OER is a > collaborative effort) to improve Wikipedia articles relating to open > educational resources (OER). But are you doing anything in the development of > an OER eco-system? e.g. Do a Google. End up on a WP page, AND THEN.... (e.g.) > be directed by a link, or reference to an interactive space where one can get > more info, or maybe register for a course. > > I'm having a discussion in quite a few places at the moment about the > convergence between old broadcast media and (let's say) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Studies_2.0 . I would think " Patrina Law. > I am the Senior Manager for Strategic Projects at the Open University" would > have an interest here, especially as OUUK have a relationaship with the BBC. > E.g. http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-week > > I keep on looking at that header on every WP page "Discuss how more than 10 > million US dollars could benefit the Wikimedia movement" and thinking "yep". > But it would need to look at the convergence between broadcast and > interactive media from an OER perspective. > > -- > -- 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] > > -- -- 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]
