Over the next few weeks we will post comments about a lot of interesting OER. Keep an eye on this page. Go to this link.
Musings on open educational resources by Mike, Cathy, Phoenix and Vic
Over the next few weeks we will post comments about a lot of interesting OER. Keep an eye on this page. Go to this link.
Thanks Marshall, Cathy,
I was going a bit bats after reading “we welcome your feedback, comments and discussion” at the top of this doc, and having nowhere to go. http://www.hewlett.org/NR/rdonlyres/5D2E3386-3974-4314-8F67-5C2F22EC4F9B/0/AReviewoftheOpenEducationalResourcesOERMovement_BlogLink.pdf
Do you think we could try and attempt to bring all the discussion which goes on on all HP’s OER initiatives together? Blogs are one step and good as a way to respond to a report. But as John says in the doc, we have a “successful disaster” on our hands. “a teacher now has access to 100 elementary calculus courses’ (and a thousand blogs). We need incentives and mechanisms to promote creation and access to fewer instances of the same course but with more support material, more commentary, more examples, etc”
I wouldn’t even say we need “more commentary”. We just need a way that, when HP/OER funded communities put a doc or report up, people are directed to a forum where a conversation can take place, and be followed if you come in a bit late. You’ve seen John D from OCWC attempt a forum, but because the incentive is for each silo to produce “me too” content rather than collaborate and produce a course together, we end up with so many half baked (institutional) pies rather one good quality pie, baked by a global (subject specific) group.
In short, we need a community hub(s). http://docs.moodle.org/en/Community_hub
It might look something like this COP forum, which is about 250 on Alexa’s top 500. http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/
So long as each funded initiative is ‘incentivated’ to use it as a place to share what going on in their silo, I’m sure we might see the beginnings of a culture built around global communities rather than institutional repositories.
At least that’s what we’ve found.
http://www.wikback.com/forums/
(PS This hub is only 3 months old)