Signing in and seminar objectives

Re: Signing in and seminar objectives

by Christine Horgan -
Number of replies: 2
Polite request, please, colleagues:

Please explain the abbreviations for those of us not in the know. It'd help me (at least) make better/faster sense of the correspondence.

Thank you, Chris
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Re: Signing in and seminar objectives

by Wayne Mackintosh -
Hi Chris,

Simon will do a better job of explaining the acronym.

NREN: National research and education network

Many countries have dedicated academic collaborations to provide a broadband Internet backbone to support research and teaching. You can can think of an NREN as a special kind of Internet service provider which focuses on serving universities and colleges.

SImon -- you'll need to correct me if I've got this wrong.

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Re: Signing in and seminar objectives

by simon fenton-jones -
Whoops, yes. Here's the list.

They're critical to the development of the OERu because your institutional credentials will, over time, enable participating institutional members to share domains and services rather than this round robin we have at the moment. i.e. institutional centric.

I haven't figured out the cost savings to the individual institutions as it's the same arguement as all OER - Produce once, share forever. Software/services often gets missed. You can imagine why the institutional IT guys are a bit nervous.