[Open-education] OER15 meetup and Shaking up the Open Education Working Group!

Mon Apr 6 09:38:53 UTC 2015

Hi Everyone!

Unfortunately the Open Education Working Group has been pretty quiet 
lately. This is partly due to my working on other projects not in the 
Open Education space and having less time to spend on 'facilitating' the 
community. So many ideas but no time to implement them!! :-(

However this is a community working group and shouldn't just be driven 
by me! Our mailing list has 378 global members, we also have 1177 
Twitter followers! We've now had 20 blog posts from around the world and 
quite a lot of WG calls - so there are lots of people interested in 
being involved.

It would be fantastic if others could take a more active role in the 
group. It's great to hear about members initiatives and projects, but 
we'd also love to see more collaboration and discussions going on, and 
more leadership of the group from the community. Maybe even someone else 
being the group co-ordinator! I actually have a very long list of 
possible roles and jobs that I'd be happy to share with people.

*So what do you think should happen to the group? What role could it 
play? What space could it fill? How could we get others involved? Why is 
it other groups in this space continue to be active and yet we aren't so 
active? Does this type of group actually work? How can we better 
distribute the responsibility for the group? Can we align it to other 
projects so they use it as their dissemination outlet? Where do we go 
from here? How can I make this distribution of responsibility happen?*

The Open Education Working Group (me) will be at OER15 
<https://oer15.oerconf.org/> presenting a poster on the Open Education 
Handbook 
<https://oer15.oerconf.org/sessions/the-open-education-handbook-681/>. 
It would be great to meet up with members of the working group to 
discuss ideas for the future. If you are interested in meeting up email 
me or tweet me (@mariekeguy <https://twitter.com/mariekeguy>) and we can 
hijack one of the coffee breaks (I'm thinking Tuesday 4- 4:30 or 
Wednesday 11 - 11:30). I'll send a email & tweet out with advance 
warning and people can meet by the Open Education Handbook poster. We 
can even do a cheeky group photo ;-)

It would be so great to catch up with people!!

Thanks

Marieke
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