Leigh - I like your term “socially constructed media and communications” - and I'd like to think we could use a term like “Free and Open Education Reform” and that it would actually be helpful. Some are uncomfortable enough with the words “Free and Open” anything. But hey, let's try it.
I want to circle back just a moment to the accreditation term. We need more refined terms here as well. Sounds like we all agree that accreditation of learning is the important thing. Yet, even that has many different methods and varieties - a brief concept paper I pulled together for the OER conference in China (and that Phillip from Derek's institution kindly presented) shows some of the methods by which learning can be accredited http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df9f5w7f_6hs7fg8cj
One of the important pathways to figure out and scale up is what Derek called Accreditation 3.0: passionate learner + F/OER + community = Accreditation 3.0. This catchy term for it could be useful! I'm glad to hear that Otago is also doing some work in this direction.
As for the barrier-laden concept of “accrediting” or getting “stamps of approval” for content - what I had in mind was what the Rice Connexions project does with scholarly communities: they select and review resources that have already been shared - a value-added “lense” into the content from their perspective. http://cnx.org/news/LensesIntroduced
Cheers, Chris
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