terri, dan, & sunnie @ the educause showroom
just got back from orlando today after giving a seminar at educause 2008. i co-presented with terri bays (executive director of the OCW consortium) and dan carchidi (publication director of MIT OCW). it was an awesome experience getting to know these folks who are doing so much for the OCW movement. i had a chance to interview both terri and dan and will be posting it in the coming days.
our seminar was 3 hours long and in a nutshell, we talked about how ocw can help universities not just help other people, but also help themselves: open sharing, local payoff. we talked about how OCW can help fulfill a university’s mission as well as its explicit and implicit goals.
this was my first time at educause and i was blown away by its huge scale. all the big names in IT were there trying to sell their goods to the higher ed public. the best part was walking around all the booths and getting free stuff and free food. overall, i had a wonderful time and learned a lot!
Hi Sunnie – The OCW ideas sounds very exciting for changes. Have you been involved with implementing OCW at a site or with a school via Michigan State?
By: Terry Smith on November 5, 2008
at 1:10 am
Hi Terry, at MSU we’re taking a slightly different approach to OCW. We’re in the process of developing a global Food Safety Knowledge Network that will be a repository of OERs for people all along the food production chain (farm to fork). Many of the OERs will be created by experts on our campus and they will all be tied to competencies that MSU is helping to create. I’ll definitely be writing more about this as our funding is finalized and we really begin the development process.
By: Sunnie on November 5, 2008
at 8:21 am