[Open-education] Friday chat: 'Open Open' Days and meta communities - open education groups

Fri Oct 3 11:08:11 UTC 2014

Hi Everyone,

At the working group call on Monday we talked a little about communities:

Community: Marieke will be moving on to other projects later on in the 
year and is keen to spread the co-ordination of the group out a little. 
Javiera has offered to spend more time supporting the working group in 
the new year! There followed a discussion over the challenges of 
‘building a Community’ and overlapping communities. Quite a few related 
open education communities were identified including: Open education 
graduate community, UNESCo group, OER discuss, P2PU, GO-GN (Global Open 
Educational Resources Gradute Network), ALT’s OER SIG committee. It was 
suggested that the Open Education Working Group hold a ‘meta community 
day’ or ‘open open day’ and try to bring some of these communities 
together. - See more at: 
http://education.okfn.org/minutes-from-5th-working-group-call/#sthash.C13HkB5R.dpuf
 From the minutes 
<http://education.okfn.org/minutes-from-5th-working-group-call/>: "There 
followed a discussion over the challenges of ‘building a Community’ and 
overlapping communities. Quite a few related open education communities 
were identified including: Open education graduate community, UNESCO 
group, OER discuss, P2PU, GO-GN (Global Open Educational Resources 
Gradute Network), ALT’s OER SIG committee. It was suggested that the 
Open Education Working Group hold a ‘meta community day’ or ‘open open 
day’ and try to bring some of these communities together."

Interestingly this seems to be something the Open Science community are 
currently discussing - though they are thinking more about tools.
http://ubuntusense.com/2014/09/30/thoughts-on-having-a-meta-open-science-community/

The 'Open Coalition <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Open_Coalition>' is a 
great example of a meta community in the open space. So the question is 
how can the Open Education Working Group help facilitate a meta 
community for open education?

Anyway it would be great to brain storm groups in this space. We have a 
list of OER groups in the handbook 
<http://booktype.okfn.org/open-education-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/groups-of-people-or-individuals-interested-in-oers/> 
- but can we think wider than this - so more general open education groups?

Any thoughts much appreciated!

Marieke

Community: Marieke will be moving on to other projects later on in the 
year and is keen to spread the co-ordination of the group out a little. 
Javiera has offered to spend more time supporting the working group in 
the new year! There followed a discussion over the challenges of 
‘building a Community’ and overlapping communities. Quite a few related 
open education communities were identified including: Open education 
graduate community, UNESCo group, OER discuss, P2PU, GO-GN (Global Open 
Educational Resources Gradute Network), ALT’s OER SIG committee. It was 
suggested that the Open Education Working Group hold a ‘meta community 
day’ or ‘open open day’ and try to bring some of these communities 
together. - See more at: 
http://education.okfn.org/minutes-from-5th-working-group-call/#sthash.C13HkB5R.dpufhttp://ubuntusense.com/2014/09/30/thoughts-on-having-a-meta-open-science-community/
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