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 Joe Corneli |
This is one of the reasons that the word "Open" is a bit of a problem. It doesn't actually say anything meaningful. So for example, "Open Access" essentially just means "Access". I think we need to use a richer lexicon to describe the dimensions of productive, collaborative, and educational projects. The terms "NC", "ND", "SA", "By", and "Zero" from Creative Commons provide a limited way to talk about rights (or, rather, restrictions) attached to resources, but this is actually not very descriptive. There are 82 tags used on Slashdot, and though they probably aren't all relevant to so-called Open Education, many of them probably are. Certainly there's more to the "open content" movement than five kinds of legal restrictions. Really it seems like as a movement we are stumbling around in the dark, without even a shared taxonomy (much less a theory or practice) of sharing. |
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Joe Corneli |
@Abel: you could probably use BigBlueButton for that. They recommend using the platform for 25 users or less, but they've maxed it out at 193. If you have lots of people you could use streaming video like Icecast with an integrated chat or identi.ca stream. |
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Jacky Hood |
The main sponsor of the OER webinar series sent me a message that CitrixOnline is working on a Linux version. They have a GoToMeeting in beta with GoToWebinar to follow. Citrix even has a job opening for a Linux engineer: http:/ |
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Joe Corneli |
You can always take the family out to eat in a restaurant, IF you have the cash on hand, and IF you're willing to eat what the restaurant serves you. Certainly it need not be a very good restaurant. At least, that's what the focus on price-as-the-driving-force tells us. The same logic applies to OERs. Tools for software gardening and open content homecookery are by now almost as mainstream and ubiquitous as shovels and soup pots. This doesn't mean that they're always better than the alternative, clearly (please see this essay). Nevertheless, making a rhetorical argument that says "it's better because it's proprietary" isn't going to hold much water, either. |
