Sylvia Currie

This is happening TODAY at 16:30 PST (see your time zone)

Several years ago SCoPE and CPsquare began a series called "Quarterly Field Trips" where we visit communities and focus in on questions the community is facing. Today we are visiting SCoPE! The details are posted in the CP2 wiki: http://cpsquare.org/wiki/SCOPE_November_6_2012

For this field trip we have a special group joining in! Graduate students enrolled in Simon Fraser University's Educational Technology and Learning Design program are working on prototypes of online spaces to support Communities of Practice. This activity to explore a living community will help to inform that project. 

You're all invited so I hope to see you there!

This is happening TODAY!

Several years ago SCoPE and CPsquare began a series called "Quarterly Field Trips" where we visit communities and focus in on questions the community if facing. Today we are visiting SCoPE! The details are posted in the CP2 wiki: http://cpsquare.org/wiki/SCOPE_November_6_2012

For this field trip we have a special group joining in! Graduate students enrolled in Simon Fraser University's Educational Technology and Learning Design program are working on prototypes of online spaces to support Communities of Practice. This activity to explore a living community will help to inform that project. 

You're all invited so I hope to see you there!

Thanks so much for pointing to the 'Mapping the landscape of Open Educational Resources institutional initiatives' event, Simon. I've been immersed in so many face-to-face events this month that I completely missed hearing about it. (I'm realizing how difficult it is to be both present AND connected!)

The OER discussion a perfect follow-on to earlier SCoPE seminars:

• A Framework for Academic Volunteers International
• OER university
• Designing OERu Credentials
• OERu 2011.11 open planning meeting 

I agree, email lists have their place, but it's not ideal tool for structured discussions -- unless you can rely on everyone to remove email signatures, prune what they include in replies, adjust subject headings.... which of course you can't! Furthermore, no annotation, no hyperlinking to earlier posts...  

In any case, the OER Worldmap discussion is very important and I hope everyone will join!

I received word from the organizers on site at the Open Education conference that generally everyone was too busy attending conference sessions or jamming on the conference cruise to do much work on the remixathon projects. Life in the fast lane! :-) So we won't be having a "results" wrap-up as planned, but of course this forum will be left open for folks to report back if they choose. 

In any case, this process generated a great list of submissions of OER, so thanks for that! And from what I have heard this did prompt some discussions and new connections -- from Chris Pegler: "this remix (and I expect the others) will have started here but not fnished here".

Don, a quick search on the Freelearning.ca site pulls up some resources that might be of interest:

http://freelearning.ca/search-oer-sites/

There's no doubt more if you search on different key terms. The nice part about Freelearning is that it narrows down the search to items that have been flagged as high quality OER.

And Christine, thanks for dropping that OERu resource in here. I think you're right - it was probably from the Designing OERu Credentials seminar September 2011. Neat when those connections are made!