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OpenEd2005

  1. Basic info
  2. My Talk
  3. My OpenEd2005 pictures
  4. Conference Notes
    1. Marshall Smith's State of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement
    2. SchoolNet talk
    3. Cyprien's Flickr talk
    4. Women Working collection
    5. SERC at Carlton
    6. Yochai Benkler

I'm here at the [WWW]Open Education Conference at Logan, UT.

These notes aren't meant to be complete.... The conference is being videotaped and audiotaped, and there is a big effort to capture all the slides for the talks.

Basic info

My Talk

I will be speaking on Friday. /MyTalk

My OpenEd2005 pictures

University Inn Hotel, USU
famous Aggie ice cream
The backdrop to the Open Education Conference
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John Seely Brown
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Jane at the controls
Cyprien and Raymond at Hamilton's
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Conference Notes

Marshall Smith's State of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement

[WWW]talk abstract

Remove Barriers

Sustainability is a big problem -- of projects and of the field.

The big goal is to "build a self-sustaining field".

We need to provide the "right incentives for individuals and institutions". How do OERs add value to the end-users?

Key Questions

  1. Contradiction-- open, free for all v sustainability?

  2. Assessing quality -- should we? If so how? Expert vs. peer (reviews/pressure) vs users. Organized vs. volunteer

  3. Ability to reuse is very important -- how prevalent is it?

  4. Users and contents create knowledge from information. Do certain kinds and designs of materials generalize in usefulness across widely different contexts? How should materials be designed for maximizing generalization?

  5. We have very different audiences. Africa middle school student -- U.S. community college student - professor in Latin America. How do we reach them? Do we need very different strategies, materials?

SchoolNet talk

[WWW]SchoolNet Namibia - Youth Empowerment Through Internet.

I want to check out [WWW]kewl.

Cyprien's Flickr talk

Women Working collection

[WWW]Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan

SERC at Carlton

Yochai Benkler

Peer Production of educational materials

[WWW]benkler.org

A book in 5-6 months: Wealth of Networks

* important difference between commons-based production and peer-based production

* peer production

* turning point...industrial production of information for about 150 years (high costs of producing, collecting, and distributing information) 600 million to 1 billion are "connected" -- capital moves to the nodes.

* human creative labor: high variable (across human beings and over time for an individual); personal, specific, non-fungible