I don’t know if it’s just due to the recent conference, but there’s been a huge uptick in discussion about OCW in the past couple days, and in an attempt to keep up with it I’m providing these quick hits:
First, there were a bunch of excellent posts about conference sessions.
Ken Udas on why individual membership to the OCWC is a great idea. Stian on presentations he found helpful (and some he found confusing).
Willem Van Valkenburg (of TU Delft) covers the WikiEducator presentation, and gets a shot of the slide I have been wanting to talk about but not had the time to yet — the quality assurance model of the project. This social QA bit was the really interesting bit of the presentation for me — how to avoid the overbearing paternalism that Wikipedia has got into lately while still providing some level of quality control (The solution, according to Wayne, is to allow tiered levels of content, which you can see on the slide Willem has captured). Wlliem also covers the Board composition (although I think Brandon is included in the list by mistake).
Through the glory of twitter, Stian Haklev notes we may have the first Italian OCW. I’m a little disappointed it uses Flash, which is unfriendly to hacking and things like Google translation — but given they use the ND license, I suppose this is partially by design (Stian notes the ND with a “Come on!”. Yup.) I seem to be saying this a lot lately, but I’ll try to find out more about this project and post it here. To my knowledge, they haven’t talked to the consortium.
Speaking of the glories of Twitter, Jared Stein seems hours away from having his Moodle OCW mod done, at least as I read his recent tweet (updates protected). I saw this demo’d at the conference. Very sweet, and very simple — works the way you would expect it to work. Which anyone in software knows is a difficult thing to accomplish. He’s promised me a screencast when complete (nudge, nudge).
There’s more, but I’ll have to post later…
