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Hi all, This is as good a point to jump in as any. We thought an introduction to the list might be a good thing. We've been following the OER community in the UK for awhile now. We've been talking with Malcolm Read and Sarah Porter about how best to get involved, and to find projects of common interest. We've followed David Flanders' and John Robertson's work at JISC. So the entire mini-projects seem like a good way to get started. Apropos of much of the recent list discussion--I've taken the intent of the mini-projects at face value. To do a few small focused projects, to result in working code, doing something useful. With respect to metadata and search logs, yes one could do a lot more. But we need to get to the "doing" part, one of our mottos is "working code trumps all." (Those of you that know us know that we've "been there and done that" with educational repositories, digital libraries, educational metadata, and so on.) The "we" here are a couple groups here across the pond. - MIT Office of Educational Innovation and Technology [1]: It's easiest to think of what we do as scaling up of educational innovations. OEIT is academic computing without early stage educational research and without responsibility for managing the VLE/LMS (though we developed the one that's currently in use at MIT). Our biggest completed software project in the "open" space has been the Open Knowledge Initiative. One of our current projects is what we're calling Project Greenfield [2]. The idea with Greenfield is seeing what can we do with MIT OpenCourseWare content to make it more course-like, and less publication-like. - Tatamae Consulting: These are the guys behind much of the really cool projects that were developed by COSL if you've heard of them. The Folksemantic project set, Send2Wiki, OCWFinder, OERrecommender. They're still supporting OERrecommender (which has been rebadged under Folksemantic.com [3]), and they've got a new project called OERGlue. They're also did some work on TwHistory [4] with Talis funding. Also by way of introduction, OpenLearn is currently using the OERrecommender recommendations on its pages. And OEIT has a new project that's with OpenLearn that is in the process of being funded. On behalf of my colleagues Vijay Kumar, Jeff Merriman, Justin Ball and Joel Duffin, Brandon Muramatsu MIT, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology [1] http://oeit.mit.edu/ [2] http://greenfield.mit.edu/ [3] http://www.folksemantic.com/ [4] http://twhistory.org/ On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:03 PM, OER-DISCUSS automatic digest system < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > There are 8 messages totaling 2250 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Mini-projects bids: what's up? (8) > > <snip> > > End of OER-DISCUSS Digest - 1 Apr 2011 to 5 Apr 2011 (#2011-50) > *************************************************************** >