Hi Simon, As always -- thoughtful insights.
A dimension / facet which many projects working in the open space sometimes forget (because of the legacy of closed content ;-) ) -- is the fact that it doesn't matter where OER content is hosted. For example, WikiEducator and Wikiversity may be perceived by some as "competing" projects -- but I don't buy into this rational. We are all collaborating as nodes in the free culture network contributing towards the vision of free access to the world's knowledge. There are differences in the characteristics of the communities that congregate around different projects --- this is a healthy and productive phenomenon of the Internet in my view. For example, WikiEducator serves the formal education sector in peer-production approaches to OER with 72% of our members being teachers, lecturers or trainers working in the formal education sector where the WMF projects are better examples of open public wiki communities. However -- we all have something in common --- content using licenses that subscribe to the free cultural works definition. It seems to me that we should work towards facilitating the connections and remix opportunities among open content projects. This is a key strategic focus of the OER Foundation -- namely to facilitate the evolution of the OER ecosystem. Our work in building OER content interoperability between Connexions and Mediawiki software being a prime example. I agree -- alliances, partnerships and technology infrastructure are the gaps we need to resolve :-) Cheers Wayne 2009/11/10 simonfj <[email protected]> > > That was so interesting valerie, > > Thanks for the comparison. "Wikipedia was entirely collaborative > development from the outset. > Whether intended or not, WikiEducator has been much more about the > practice of open "publishing". > > I've always been interested in how the two domains would complement > one another, especially as they use the same engine; and wayne's > mention of a "static version of course materials in Connexions": and > "an educational adaption of the Flagged Revisions extension for > Mediawiki for implementing peer review" gives me a better idea of how > three domains might. Wikipedia as the the top layer (of chaos and > promotion), wikieducator (and others) as the peers, and a fixed > archive (in Connexions as one). > > I can't add anything terrible useful here. My interest is more in > working through the real time tools that might be shared between > members of edu networks and domains, and lobbying governments to put a > cc license on every one of their GLAMs. But can I point you at this > page in the wikipedia strategy process. > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Questions_that_need_answers > > The main areas are at Point 5. Alliances and partnerships and > technology infrastructure. > Some interesting questions which collaboration between domains might > answer better than any one by itself. Any answers from wikieducators > will certainly be welcomed. > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
