Hi again,
For Wayne I need to qualify my meaning on shades of openness because I'm a strong advocate on open standards and formats. There is most definitely shades of openness due to many different aspects. Derek describes one - often people will provide the output as an open resource but not the source file. A lot of open content wasn't constructed with openness as being a primary concern - archived materials subsequently made “open” for example. These can be very difficult to reduce, extend, edit etc. The parallel with open source is that some projects are more open in the sense that the community they have is open and easier to engage with, the code is conducive to hacking and thereby innovating further. In contrast, although having an open license, many projects have arcane coding structures or unwelcome governance structures, sometimes both! Hence my shades of openness comment.
This write-up covers outlines our learning curve with the NZ OER project.
http://oer.repository.ac.nz/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=true&id=1863
cheers, Richard
P.S A wild goat stew with stout ;-). It's wintry here, All Blacks start their season this Saturday.
- 828 reads
