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Collaborating on Open Education

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Session 6. Collaborating on Open Education

Participants were invited to develop a vision for improved collaboration amongst people working on open educational materials, with discussion of how best to build on the work of others. The aim was to set out some achievable goals and activities the community can focus on leading up to iSummit 08.
Day 3 - 12.00 – 13:00

Also see this article by Steve, who collected some thoughts during the session.

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Report Back Presentation

These notes were taken during the final report back to the whole summit.

Engage - where this began is an idea, an experiment, how does one run a session at iCommons in the way that represents the ethos of what iCommons is - represents the peer production nature of open education. Came out with a wide spectrum of ideas on what open education could do and where it could go.

Unifying Apart form new ways of engaging. If open education is to become a reality, we need to work together and come together and listen to each other. Bring in the richness of diversity. When we come together it helps us put our broader picture and connect it to our local context. We feel a sense of responsibility to our own work, and are developing a sense of responsibility towards this movement.

Focus Identify some of the focus areas that we will be addressing over the next 12 months. Free Textbook project - we started drilling down, how do we approach volunteers, how do we write these textbooks. How we can encourage students to start writing textbooks. What are the issues around licensing that we need to look at (working with CC Learn). Peer2Peer University. We need to engage with more players: policy, goverment. Look at an open education declaration that could be signed by Dept of Education. Shift the focus onto students. Ask questions about impact / is anyone actually using this stuff? What is the issue of language and how can it be overcome? Local vs. global. How can local initiatives integrate to shape a comprehensive.

Action The iCommons iCurriculum group was an idea, but we can say that we have become a movement. We have a strategy, we have visions, and goals, we are committed to reaching them working towards next years summit.

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