American English please. Don't understand. (maybe I have a small brain). gene
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:40 AM, simonfj <simo...@cols.com.au> wrote: > Many thanks Wayne, > > Carina, please don't think I'm having a go at you. I just hate to see > wayne overworked (which he is all the time). > > I'll only make one comment on the problem with engaging NREN guys. > They really do want to help. It's just that mouse trap builders > language is sooo different to that of OER cheese makers. Also, the > stuff that most cheese makers see as e-learning tools are lumped > together as "commodity internet" by the network guys and largely > discounted. "Let google, facebook, Elluminate, etc, look after those > (web) apps. We'll provide access to that social stuff for users via an > institutional user's account/log in. We want to R&D the high bandwidth > (engineeringly challenging) stuff". Boys and their toys. > > But the twain is starting to meet. There's a global group of > (institutional) authentication guys, who are starting to push. > http://refeds.org/ Eventually they're going to have to answer the > broader institutional questions around providing citizen's with a > lifelong learning account.http://www.eid-ssedic.eu/index.php? > option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=100056 > > They just lack the input of lots of global (disciplinary) groups, like > OERers in the elearning space, who can define the combination(s) of > "common services" which they want to share. And a scheme which > provides a directory to a global disciplinary group's/community's info > and comms. > > OK. This is the call out of the ec. Check out the "work programme". > > http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.cooperationDetailsCallPage&call_id=319#infopack > > I've already pointed to where the discussions around this call work > their way through, from Brussels, to the Asian end. > But you'd have to be across the LinkedIn groups and conferences that > the EC's contractors (Sigma Orionis) have been running (in Asia > Pacific, SE Asia, Europe & Africa) to see the 'common service' > requirements starting to form up. > This is the Euro end. http://paradiso-fp7.eu/ You've seen the > sea(coop) end of the same discussions. > > I don't know what your relationships are like with NICTA. But one aim > would be to add a "Common services" tag off terry's page. > http://www.nicta.com.au/business/broadband_and_the_digital_economy > I've pointed to the Aussie short list of common services on the aaf > site. (which they never use of course). > > At least we can start talking about OER and "common services" as two > sides of the open e-science, e-gov, e-ducation, coin. > Now if only we can get policy makers out of the habit of believing > that public servants will be "delivering" services online. > > Look. Can yu start us on in the wiki space. You've got a much bigger > oer perspective than i have. You've got the model right. But I'm > thinking in terms of the comms like http://tiny.cc/zx9an not the oer > info. > > I can fill in the infrastructure overview better if I can understand > what you have in mind in aggregating and distributing oer content. > I've also got to start brushing up on my rusty video skills. > > Somehow, we've got to explain stuff like this. http://tiny.cc/id8zh > to some web designers and their bosses at the ec. > http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?lg=en&pg=forum > so we can get these guys to coordinate their activites. > http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ncps_en.html > > I've given myself 3 (warm) months in Thailand to get something in > front of the country funders. > If we don't get it together for this call, then it's the one after. > Kop jai, simon > > -- > 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 -- With Sincerest Best Wishes , Gene Gene Loeb, Ph.D. -- 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
