OSI-EDU-WG-notes-18feb2014

Last modified by Joseph Potvin on 2023/02/17 01:53

Participating

Joseph Potvin
Ken Udas
Wayne Mackintosh

Discussion Notes

1. Building the OSI-EDU-WG

  • General promotion message about OSI-EDU-WG and the FLOW Syllabus, with link to OSI announcement page
  • The announcement should emphasize ways to participate, since this is intended as a peer-production living asset
  • Joseph will craft a 1st draft text for the OSI announcement & call for participation, plus a short outreach message
    • This week, in time for review ahead of 25 Feb WG teleconf (Didn't make it in time for earlier review.)
  • The WG participants also identify & contact specific scholars/educations in various fields to seek participation
    • Particular academic champions in the network
    • Build theme-based communities of practice
      – learning specialists
      – lawyers, law educators, law academics
      – project managers (in many fields that go with the FLOW model)
      – project management educators, PM academics, PM standards & certification specialists
      – self-learning developers/managers interested to collaborate
  • Added in after the teleconf: ORCID could be a useful partnership: http://orcid.org/about/community  See also: http://orcid.org/open-source-license

2. Target nature and structure of the FLOW Syllabus, 2 months from now?

"Resource-based learning" and other guidance  http://www.reusability.org/read/chapters/hannafin.doc
And some useful presentation layer ideas here: http://www.reusability.org/read/

  • structure the modules for use towards formal academic credit
  • couple the syllabus modules with approval processes
  • linking in with university structures/timing has some challenges
  • the extent to which it is modular makes it easy to draw upon within already-accredited/certified courses to:
    • fortify an existing course
    • diversify an existing curriculum
    • assist researchers in comparative analysis with other business models
  • incremental design, dont solve it all in first run
    • good that it's a flexible outline resource
    • an actively peer-curated guide
    • of course, there is risk of the syllabus becoming "just an index", path could become relatively staid, biased by "our mental scaffold"
    • so we should establish working principles
    • useful to articulate our working boundary between the syllabus, and our working assumptions about how diverse users will engage it "as input"
    • encourage users to adapt and optimize the way it will be used
  • all agreed that the syllabus refer only to open access sources, as a precondition
  • provide links to relevant open access journals (and to what that means)
  • there's a large body of "shadow resources" / "grey literature" that's not yet very easy to discover
    • USQ is working on an intexing project that might be of use, with large stores of open educational content (not yet available)
  • to the extent which we're breaking ground with this, it's sure to be somewhat complex
  • question about direct links to court cases vs interpretive 2ndary works
    • there is value to both
    • decision based on the clearest to-the-point explainations
    • the art of interpreting case studies is challenging, but valuable when well facilitated (good that it includes guides to "the case method")
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