Hewlett: Closing session

Cathy Casserly relaunched oerderves with a chance to comment on this meeting and the way forward (though I am not sure that the commenting is working just know).

We then had an open discussion with issues from the floor:

• UNESCO trying to reach the world and keep
• Communicate the good news – make more visible
• How do people find our stuff
• Ecology of the user experience – by working together
• Plug our own project – OER Recommender (David Wiley)
• What does search
• Also find help on how to use as well as just find
• Vijay Kumar: Draw on experience with how best to get information to MIT faculty – want real voices. About the movement as well as the content.
• Need to also look at exciting leaps forward as well as steps – research is needed
• Content will be free – services provided on top.
• Philosophy at Hewlett is cheap is not free
• CC-by needed to open up all content for services
• Need to keep teachers on board
• What is the next small step to take – guidance, planning to bring OERs into teacher training.
• Challenge to not fall into traps and genuinely help – for Africa that means that there is local involvement in producing OERs before take up of those from others.
• Transplanting sophisticated approaches (e.g. OUUK) that depend on educators who know how to help people learn, otherwise it will get turned into transmission.
• Work with the Social aspects of the web
• Work with institutions – providing infrastructure to create own content, did help working with provided content and for OCW to come along later.
• Find key people and then help them get their message across
• Africa – need to ensure Africans are full collaborators in the activity (also true for any area of the world need co-collaboration).

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