Here come my notes on the Open Education 2006: Community, Culture, and Content that we are attending:
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Concurrent sessions
Mellon-funded Open Source Projects for Higher Education
Chris Mackie, Mellon Foundation
Flagship achievements: JSTOR, DAA (humanities Nobel Prize), MM Undergraduate Fellowships.
Openness projects: Sakai, uPortal, Kuali, PKI|OKI, D-Space|FEDORA, LionShare, VUE|SIMILE|Zotero|Didily, etc.
Possible upcoming initiatives: Student Service System, “User Delight” (usability), Coprehensive Text Analysis Framewok (“Scholar’s Workbench”), Humanities Middleware. All emphasize: services-oriented architectures (Java), collaborative, distributed development, for-profit/FP partnerships.
Core values and visions: service to traditional constituencies (arts, humanities, museums…), access (open source), sustainability, generality (compelling use cases), collaboration, synergy, elimination of redundancy via collaborative convergence.
China Open Resources for Education Upadate
Fun-Den Wang, CORE
CORE: China Open Resources for Education.
Translating/localizating MIT OCW from English to Chinese (expected 1,500 courses for end 2006), but also the inverse: Chinese courses into English.
Based on this OCW, there’s tutoring from the faculty to the students that follow the “lectures”.
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