Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Joint COL UNESCO OER Publications available on WikiEducator

2011-12-03 Thread john stampe
Wayne and Patricia, I completely agree with your position on the COL/UNESCO report. I would suggest that WE consider an archive for all the important documents related to OER. It would act as a historical record of the OER movement in general and WE in particular. It would also make searching

Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Joint COL UNESCO OER Publications available on WikiEducator

2011-12-03 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Anil I agree, the risks of enclosure or sites which are discontinued due to lack of funding is an issure for both OER and open access materials. This is why we encourage educators to replicate OER resources on as many repositories as possible. The wiki keeps an accurate history of every edit

Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Joint COL UNESCO OER Publications available on WikiEducator

2011-12-03 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi John, The UNESCO-COL chair for OER at Athabasca University is developing a knowledge cloud for hosting OER related documents. This will be an appropriate repository for this OER historical record. By working with the UNESCO-COL Chair for OER we can avoid unnessary duplication of effort. I

Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Joint COL UNESCO OER Publications available on WikiEducator

2011-12-03 Thread Anil Prasad
Dear Dr. Wayne, Definitely wiki history is a powerful tool. One final doubt: suppose abcd institution donate a content and we place a header template with the title lines 'content developed by abc institution'. Up to which version in the history this title line can be used? Perhaps it was the