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TURN NON-BUILDERS INTO BUILDERS Motivations Continuity Competitions - promote, not effective Hackathon – f2f hands-on worked examples Virtual university as hackathons, mentorings, group assignments, structured exercises

MESSAGING PRODUCTS Building engaging marketing materials – video – what’s a 5-min movie for oer that can go world wide Building engaging message – show possible impact, ethical issues Marketing campaign around self-commitment OLPC example – person with prestige, tech commitment

AMBASSADOR(S) Who is the Al Gore of oer – Larry Cuban ? Who are the women spokespeople ? Rating, awards, status – incentive to self-commitment Need new counterpart to publishing which has been the bestower of prestige Need collaboration process to plug into when f2f event is over Overcome isolation – form regional process, form smaller groups to work on specific things Project leader – not leader–driven, but leader is catalyst, facilitator, and prestige for project - as is free sw projects – gives the project a brand and cache and credibility that might not have otherwise Mini-networks that have a draw – snowball effect

STUDENT-PRODUCED CURRICULUM CREDIT-CARRYING COURSE Process – what can learn from free sw model : unstable, testing, stable Roles – contributor, evaluator, finalizing Course – student-driven content iterative as credited course Need: Specific objectives, measured outcome, structured process, ie, textbook constructed iteratively

WORK FLOW DIAGRAM OF PEER PRODUCTION Make a course that creates content – seed next-gen teachers to be open content builders – overcome barrier of fear and proprietary and tech Problem of content created at univeristy is often proprietary production – try to standardize process – version control on any platform – what is the work flow regardless of the tool or format ? because volunteer work is temporary, leave things for others to bring along the production line

PROMOTE PEER COLLAB TOOLS/AUTHORWARE customized learner-centric textbooks – underused because static, learner level

REUSABILITY OF CONTENT – ALLOWS CUSTOMIZATION Wikieducator example : grab wikipedia article, choose pieces relevant, use any learning content/template, create scorm package, and put anywhere pieces are standardized for reusability, granular enough to grab, repackageable exelearning – reload

GOV’T STAMP OF APPROVAL, NEEDED FOR FINAL ADOPTION acceditation – official stamp every year new textbook built on what came before Gov’t involvement – buy-in barrier of publishing mafia

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