Geez wayne, Seems like you have to do all the outreach. I would have thought if Carina wants people to get involved she's a big enough girl to issue her own invitations. (wink, nudge) I looked at the page; quite good, until i read the definition of distance education, and compared it to the one which has been so hard fought for over the years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education
The difference really does explain why Aussie institutions are in "delivery from a campus teacher to a remote learner" mode. They just can't get into the "user centric" mode. That said, there are a few progressives who simply sigh at the "practice follows policy" mindset and get on with opening things up. E.g. http://peoples-uni.org (Dick Heller is still at newcastle uni). Check out "the roles". If we must think/research in terms of OER "courseware", that's fine. But please, Oz policy makers are soooo far out of the global loop here. Even Kate (who is one my heroines). http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/03/02/citizen-centric-services-a-necessary-principle-for-achieving-genuine-open-government/ Just so we are clear, this is what I mean by user centric https://me.edu.au/login.htm And these are the kind of services to which "my account" would offer access. http://www.aaf.edu.au/technical/common-services/ And increasingly, a few others like http://www.aarnet.edu.au/Projects/2010/05/12/aarnet-anywhere.aspx Sorry for being my subtle self. I just realized why WE/WR/OCWC/OER communities have missed so many of the happenings on their individual (NREN) networks. There's a place for educators, learners and researchers on the WR logo. But no place for developers. In the network/developers world, no one is "an educator". Most of the technical problems (in creating interoperable (virtual) networks, which can support global disciplinary groups) are about creating/ agreeing common standards and using common tools/apps, AND a common classification scheme. DuH! So could we ask meena to link from her global forum to the the research wikieducator group. http://communities.ocwconsortium.org/groups/ocwoer-research/ Or vice versa. And perhaps on a better app than google's "groups" widget. There are quite a few things stirring in Europe. The talk starts here. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/collectiveawareness/index_en.htm But they gain a focus here. http://seacoop.eu/2011/05/23/opportunity-for-cooperation-in-virtual-learning-project-elearning/ What are you like at scoping a (R AND D) project for funding? Deadline september. All the best, simon We live in interesting times. -- 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
