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A bit of fun this morning!
http://blog.ducttapeuni.org/quaacs-not-moocs/
Mick and Hilary from the Duct Tape Uni team are in Bristol at the moment at the JISC SOSI summer school doing a bit of work on the communications around the project and we have come up with an interesting way of explaining it in a nutshell.
Instead of creating MOOCs (think slow moving cows), Duck Tape University will help projects to create QUAACs -
QUAACs are Quick User-led Accessible Academic Communities.
Are you a Quack-a-demic?
QUAACs are small, domain specific, community created mini-repositories which can act as a user-friendly front-end to larger repositories like Jorum, FLOSS Manuals and other OER from diverse sources.
QUAACs are fun, accessible ways of experimenting with the advantages of networked learning and the power of using Open Educational Resources within an environment of quality control and reflective practice.
QUAACs use a co-design process to work with a fledgling community of use (e.g. a University department, a subject-specific project or an existing learning community) to create a resource sharing tool that is large enough to be flexible but small enough to find what you need by browsing or searching.
QUAACs embody the way of the web (think feet). They find it easy to fly between sites and they use lightweight flexible metadata solutions like LRMI to help them to be found by other Quaac-heads.
So if you want to take part in creating the world’s first QUAAC in Manchester- see this post