[Open-education] open-education Digest, Vol 9, Issue 18

[Thomas Salmon]

Hi,

I think building discussions would be a great idea. Although email 
newsletters are not ideal for discussion they are very effective for 
keeping up to date with a lot of different strands of work that may or 
may not build into a conversation at times.

I would say that in order to help create more discussion it would be 
useful to try to create a schedule for the conversations, or a calendar. 
One with a few topics in advance that people have expressed an interest 
to discuss.

We could have it as an open Google doc to be edited and topics can be 
added, or with a survey online via email.

The questions from the Handbook look exactly like the kind of questions 
that would be well suited for a tweetchat on a topic. So that is another 
possible way to discuss ideas with tweets.

I am a fan of silent Etherpading. Just saying that one Friday is the day 
to drop some ideas onto an Etherpad and drop the questions onto it too 
(sending out the link on Friday). Then you can have a dedicated time 
organised to chat using the Etherpad chat function alongside. It is 
possible to talk also using Vidyo http://www.vidyo.com/ if you want to 
have a face to face alongside the Etherpad.

I like the idea of a fun Friday meeting, and it is always good to spread 
the discussion out in ways that it can be accessible both by people 
afterwards and also by people on twitter or just in text format or later 
on using the Etherpad.

It is also easy to annotate an Etherpad and to add to ideas people have 
already put down synchronously or asynchronously.

Best
Thomas Salmon
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> Marieke:
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> I like this idea a lot. I was also briefly part of a scholarly reading
> group based on openness that used Google +, but never really got off the
> ground. The idea there was to propose a research paper and collaboratively
> read and discuss it via a Google hangout. I think it is a great idea and
> one I would like to resurrect once I finish with school.
>
> I would love to take part in discussions around the very questions you
> asked below, but would recommend considering starting off with a more
> generic ?what is openness to you? type question. For me personally, this
> list at times seems very focused on OER, which is not something I am into.
> However, creating a dialogue about the nature and application of openness
> is something I think could lead to many interesting conversations. I would
> love to discuss where everyone stands on openness and learn more about how
> we think of it impacting our professional roles.
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> I also think Fridays are as good a time as any.
>