On Friday, 8 November 2013 21:21:46 UTC+7, Gary Lyon wrote: > > Peter, I am thrilled to read your post. There are many factors that I > believe will transform Africa; mobile internet access and open education > two of the greatest. > Hi Peter. Thanks for this one Gary, especially the list. Been trying to stay up with these massive aggregations and similar open edu projects. Here's another<http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/indepth/ecprojects>that might bring the EC-sponsored ones together in europe.
Just had to make a note on your two points " mobile internet access and open education". Amen to both. and they apply to every continent. With the first, we still have quite a way to go. But that's starting to happen, primarily out of Surfnet, the Dutch R&D network. I doubt if anyone in the OERu community will "get it" (arrogant me). But if i just say that - the Surfnet guys are tying up with one of the Dutch commercial mobile carriers to trade off Surfnet's optical network bandwidth for access to the schools and unis, via the mobile carrier's towers - does it make any sense to you? I'm trying so hard to de-geek and explain this development. It's important as it will change the whole complexion, and cost, of providing access to public services, of which public education is a major part. And yes it will happen in Africa, where http://www.ubuntunet.net/ is the much smaller (bandwidth) continental equivalent of GEANT. http://www.geant.net/Pages/default.aspx These NREN guys do talk. Re: open education. Culturally, that's even further off, or so it seems at the moment, although cultures can change overnight, or never. I think I'm closer to Joyce's wavelength than anyone else who writes around here. (now there's a worry for you Joyce). You've said you're "planning to gather together with others <http://lnkd.in/bvbaM5f> who are interested in the student support aspects of the OERu to plan an approach" I can't help but think a bit different. It's not students that need *the suppor*t. It's the teachers. Trouble is they are all scattered around, behind all those sites at which Gary pointed. Collaborate? How do you do that when everyone has a website which represents so much time and effort? Same potential audience of course. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
