Hi Ken, You asked:
Fluid Will:
Help address the diverse needs represented within education, including needs related toability,language, culture, discipline and institutional conventions
Do you have a strategy to achieve this objective and have you had much participation from
potential stakeholders (universities, foundations, governments, etc.) in developing regions or
NGOs that work in developing regions?
Fluid is an open source project (anyone can participate) and we are embedded in each of the core projects, Sakai, Kuali Student, and uPortal. While each of the core universities that are recipients of the grant are English speaking, we have found that there are many differences in language as well as educational cultures and assumptions. For example, the brits cannot understand the U.S. obsession with grades. We also hope that some of the global members of these various projects will start to join in. The Dutch members of Sakai have shown real interest as well as the South Africans and Australians. At this point we don't have any NGOs engaged that I know of, however I think there is real opportunity to engage them through the open content movement. Jutta Treviranus, the PI on the project, is very engaged on the international specification bodies.
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