Hi all, apologies for joining so late in the week again.
Hmmm great questions and responses.
"What is your ideal future for OER?"
A particular area of interest to me is device flexibility, open standards, openness of mobile devices, operator networks, copyright issues around formats e.g. transcoding are sorted and banished. That using devices in loads of different ways for learning, are not viewed as a way of making money for developers or manufacturers or service providers but a significant step in helping anyone access and share anything.
I don't know really know a huge amount about the commercialisation of opensource but if it continues I hope that 'free' will be coming back into our vocabulary again and not just 'open'.
"your institution with OER in 5/10 years?"
Whatever the personal and strategic motives my institution may have - I hope that we will be much more collaborative both amongst staff and Surrey into the wider community, that maybe anything anyone creates for either teaching / learning / research will be available as one gigantic openly accessible repository, where anyone trying to access or share something doesn't have to think about formats, licensing, assuming we are all still using keyboards or keypads, each one will be equipped with an 'open' or 'free' button (or as a voice command) that you just press and off it goes onto whatever form of web (2D / 3D / mobile).
Also, I guess this isn't 10 years but - the artifical intelligence in our software reaches a point that it starts telling you if you are creating something "Hey, this isn't open...this isn't free - you have exactly (specified timeframe) to sort it out" and then if it continues being created along a closed / proprietary route, the 'resource' will automatically delete itself from your local device and send itself out onto the web where it can be modified by someone else (or another piece of software) into an open format :-)