Re: COSL OER Handbook project on WikiEducator

This is an excellent idea. A handbook or course on OER creation is a
very timely thing. I have a few things you may want to consider;

1) using http://edublogs.org/ as the hosting environment. It has a
more educational focus and is based on open source (wordpress). I
believe you may want to consider blogger is proprietary and not based
on open source. I believe OER projects should choose open software
first.
2) Why not approach Teemu and offer to co-author his course, which in
the end will become the handbook. I don't see duplication of effort
the best thing for EOR we need collaboration.
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Composing_free_and_open_online_educational_resources
3) consider a related paper I wrote on this subject a couple of months
ago; http://www.rawsthorne.org/docs/PeterRawsthorne.OERProgram.pdf

My $0.02. please take these as suggestions for consideration...

Peter

On Jan 23, 3:06 pm, mackiwg <WMackint...-GAVDuV57cUE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
> Please check out the latest blog post on the OER Handbook project:
>
> (http://oerhandbook.blogspot.com/).
>
> The purpose of the handbook is to create a guide for those who are
> just getting started in the creation of OER.
>
> This is an exciting project and I look forward to WikiEducators from
> around the world contributing our experiences in help author and
> review this text.
>
> Cheers
> Wayne