[Open-education] open-education Digest, Vol 21, Issue 3

Mon Apr 6 16:31:47 UTC 2015

I'm all for hijacking a coffee break - or we can all sit together at a
dinner for more time.

See you in Cardiff!

Cable

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:00 AM, <open-education-request at lists.okfn.org>
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>    1. OER15 meetup and Shaking up the Open Education    Working Group!
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> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:38:53 +0100
> From: Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org>
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> Subject: [Open-education] OER15 meetup and Shaking up the Open
>         Education       Working Group!
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> Hi Everyone!
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> 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?*
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> 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 ;-)
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> It would be so great to catch up with people!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Marieke
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