[Oer-community] Introduction to the discussion

amrita ghosh amritaghosh4 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 6 01:37:13 MDT 2010


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From: Hédia Mhiri Sellami <hedia.mhiri at tunet.tn>
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Introduction to the discussion
To: oer-community at athabascau.ca
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 12:56 PM


 
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Dear All;
 
It is a pleasure to be with you again.
Kindly yours
 
Hédia Mhiri Sellami
High Institut of Management of Tunis
Tunisia
 
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From: Jane Ross 
To: Paul Lefrere ; jacques at uwm.edu 
Cc: oer-community at athabascau.ca 
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Introduction to the discussion


Good day to Everyone,
 
I want to comment on the excitement I feel about  the community of practice and spirit of sharing that is obviously operative in this group. With ideas and discussion building throughout the last couple of days this is encouraging; holding out hopes that 'the walk' will equate with 'the talk'.
 
The scope of these initiatives is so large, bringing opportunities to work and create in ways aligned with true learning and teaching -- and a welcome departure from some of the pressurized recruitment/retention and profit-driven aspects of education that recently seem to be growing by leaps and bounds. Much of the discussion in this forum, in fact, reminds of Herman Daly and John Cobb's "For the Common Good, Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment and a Sustainable Future" -- the book that won the "New options best political book of 1989": http://www.ecobooks.com/books/comgood.htm
 
On the relational ethics side of things, the OER movement brings hope and a brighter side to a global future where actions have potential to supercede rhetoric and constant reinvention of wheels.
 
Good success to us all!
 

 
Jane Ross, PhD
J. Ross Enterprises, Inc. (1986)
Camrose, Alberta, Canada
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul Lefrere 
To: jacques at uwm.edu 
Cc: oer-community at athabascau.ca 
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Introduction to the discussion


Jacques du Plessis <jacques at uwm.edu> writes:
Hi Paul, I liked your email to Susan regarding the zero-sum issue for sustainability of OER projects. This concept of sustainability is something many are intrigued by, yet it is not achieved with ease.

My example is the openlanguages.net initiative. It has been growing since 2004 to offer less commonly taught languages online. 

- Jacques, I like this a lot, it's a great example of OER for the greater good

...It is a modest approach, but I find it more grounded  than the grant-seeing approach, ... I want to avoid financial support that brings 'magic' to a project, and then the money goes away, and there is not the means to maintain the 'magic' or bigness of the venture. That is the dance I do not want to dance :-)

- I admire this approach, and feel that to really make a difference, a project has to have its own internal "magic"; winning a large grant makes some things possible, such as hiring people, but when the grant expires, often the "winner" of the grant is under pressure to move on to the next area where a grant is available, and to stop work on any non-funded prpject no matter how worthwhile it is

It is vital to think bold and beautiful and even quick, but to do nothing if there is not the long-term logic factored in.

- very sensible; when the target is clear, and people work on projects they are passionate about, great things can result without massive funding, as with openlanguages.net and also the example that Zaid gives: Salman Khan (http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/12/salman-khan-uses-microsoft-paint-to.html )


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