Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Open/Communicate OER archive

Initial project setup

I recmomend merging this with the Open Access wikiproject. And moving the free education page higher up your list, to update or merge into the constellation of similar articles. – SJ + 22:30, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Seconded. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 19:52, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm all for working closely with WP:Open Access, and have already been in touch with Daniel, but I'm not certain exactly what's being proposed here. Simply to move this coordination page to WP:WikiProject Open Access/Open education project or similar? No objection here. If it's something else, please let me know. -Pete (talk) 22:12, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

- I moved this out of WikiProject space altogether, as it will of course overlap with at least these two WikiProjects. In the future, maybe it will make sense to roll it into a WikiProject; I remain open to suggestions! -Pete (talk) 00:51, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

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Starting to look at tab structure now! Snarfa (talk) 01:25, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Tabs now in place; seeking comment. - Snarfa (talk) 03:33, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

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Where to put link(s) to the WP:Communicate OER/Recipe for success? needs some editing too... - Snarfa (talk) 03:33, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

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"Recipe for success" no longer fits with current pages; needs to be broken into appropriate nuggets depending on user. To discuss. - Snarfa (talk) 19:37, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

Article review instructions

I think it would be worthwhile to make a nice-looking PDF of Wikipedia:Communicate OER Article Review that people can either open in a separate window, or print out as instructions, to get started. Thoughts? Are there edits that should be made before doing that? -Pete (talk) 07:26, 4 October 2012 (UTC)\

Agreed - something like this is a great idea. - Snarfa (talk) 23:39, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Salary?

Do you guys get paid a salary out of your grant or are you volunteers? Would you consider posting your grant's budget up here for the world to see? I was also wondering if the institutions at which your academic members work are getting paid overhead out of the grant? As your leader says on his website, "Organizations who seek to promote their own interest without regard for Wikipedia’s policies and values should look elsewhere – or, preferably, rethink their approach to Wikipedia." Transparency is one of those values, is it not? Thanks for your time. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 18:53, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for asking. Yes, transparency is a central value of Wikipedia and of this project. As explained at the top of our user pages, Sara and I are paid for this project. The University of Mississippi is the grantee, and does receive overhead; Bob and Alexis have an interest related to their academic research, but are not paid from the grant. I will add a note explaining that structure at the top of the "Team" tab.

If you'd like to discuss this further, please do so on my talk page or, if you prefer, on a noticeboard. This page is intended for discussion related to improving content. -Pete (talk) 00:11, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

You don't feel as if you could release the budget of your grant? I'm really interested in how much this kind of work pays. I'm more comfortable with discussing it here, if you don't mind. It seems to be considered a normal use of wikiproject talk pages to discuss the scope of the wikiproject as well as to coordinate improvement of content. If we were to move it to your talk page I'm worried that other people who might be interested in these issues would miss the conversation. I have no complaints about your project, I'm just seeking to understand what it is, and I'd rather chew off my own foot than post something on a noticeboard even if I did have a complaint. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 16:12, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

To do, before Open Education conference

We will be launching this project at the Open Education conference in Vancouver, Canada, October 16–18. We should have a few activities ready for new Wikipedians to try out, before we do that. We'll be adding things to the "Do" tab, along the lines of the OER Article Review instructions already posted there.

Any ideas for good activities for new Wikipedia contributors to get their feet wet editing education-related articles? -Pete (talk) 16:43, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Article review instructions encouraging canvassing?

I wonder if this step from the article review section might be seen as a violation of WP:CANVAS:

In the big box below that, type "I just posted a review of Name of your article. Please take a look! -~~~~" (the squiggly lines at the end will automatically turn into a signature.) Replace "name of your article" with the name of the article you reviewed.

What worries me especially is that the status of this wikiproject is unclear. I mean, it's a wikiproject by definition if not in name. Since the review instructions encourage editors to notify members of this wikiproject when they review an article, but the articles won't necessarily be about whatever this wikiproject is about, it doesn't fall under the exception to the canvassing guidelines that suggest notifying wikiprojects that are interested in the topic of the article. It's possible that members of this wikiproject could be seen as having a stake in seeing the suggestions in the reviews implemented and thus that the notification wouldn't really be neutral. Just a thought.192.160.216.52 (talk) 18:17, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

I am confident this would not be used in a way that promotes canvassing; if it is, we would of course take that on as an issue out of compliance with a guideline, just like anywhere else. -Pete (talk) 00:43, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

What I'm worried about is that it might intrinsically violate the canvassing policy. But it's probably not that important. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 13:54, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Template?

Have you all given any thought to designing a talk page template to tag the articles you're working on? It might help attract more editors to the subject. It's not that hard to do.192.160.216.52 (talk) 17:55, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

It's a good idea, worth considering further. Thanks for the suggestion. -Pete (talk) 00:42, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Here, I had a first go at it. I can't move it into reality because I'm just an IP, but if you like it you can move it to Template:CommunicateOER or something like that and I'll fix it up to take assessments and so forth. It's located at User_talk:192.160.216.52/Communicate_OER_template. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 14:11, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

I changed this up a little from before. Now the main article is linked to through the template and I changed the image to be the one mentioned on another page here. I think it looks nicer now. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 18:36, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

This looks good. I'm a little unsure if it's appropriate to put a whole lot out of tags out there, as a non-official WikiProject (see "#Rename" § below) -- and whether it's worth the effort to place this widely. But it couldn't hurt a bit to start putting it on articles that our members are actively working on. I'm open to suggestion; I think I'll start off by placing it on Open educational resources and Open education in the short term, but feel free to apply it elsewhere if you like! -Pete (talk) 17:55, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm glad you like it! Before you put it anywhere, though, you should move it out of my talk space. I don't think IPs are even supposed to create stuff there, but it's definitely not going to hang around forever in there. I'd move it but IPs aren't allowed to. If you move it to Template:whatever.you.wanna.call.it It'll transclude normally with {{whatever.you.wanna.call.it}}. There's no official or non-official wikiprojects, by the way. Anyone can start one and they don't have to be called wikiprojects. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 22:07, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Rename

Wikipedia projects usually have logical names; this doesn't. What's the purposes of the word communicate here? I suggest moving this to either Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Educational Resources or Wikipedia:Open Educational Resources, and creating a redirect from WP:OER and Wikipedia:WikiProject OER. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:53, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Piotr, good to see you here! We have considered a bunch of options for how to title and present these pages (some of that discussion is in the archive, above). We haven't formally made it a WikiProject, as we don't yet know for sure if it will have critical mass to sustain over time; we think it might make more sense, in the longer term, to merge it into WP:EDUCATION or WP:OPEN. So what you see is really intended only as an interim solution, until we have enough of a group to form a more meaningful consensus. (You'll see it started at WP:EDU/OER, and then we moved it here.)

As an interim solution, my preference would to be to keep it here, rather than move it around a whole lot before a longer-term plan has emerged. But, that's not a requirement -- we can move it if needed. Thoughts? -Pete (talk) 17:30, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Now, now, Piotrus. Not all wikiprojects are named like that. The famousest example is Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines. This could be the next famousest! I think the name is perfectly logical, as it's named after the grant that's funding it. Let's keep it. And it's a wikiproject, like it or not. As the experts say here, A WikiProject is a group of editors that collaborate on encyclopedic work at collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia. A WikiProject is a group of people, not a set of pages, a subject area, or a category. ...

A WikiProject may also be a focal point for building ties between Wikipedians interested in a certain topic area, and the broader community interested in that topic area: establishing partnerships, welcoming and mentoring new Wikipedians, etc. That seems like what we have in this project, n'est ce pas? 192.160.216.52 (talk) 22:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

An article to consider

As we kick this project off, we have a number of new Wikipedia contributors. So I'd like to bring up an example of how people work together on Wikipedia to produce an article -- and one that I think leaves a big opportunity for this project to have an impact.

Take a look at Open education and its associated talk page, Talk:Open education. A few observations:

• Some very knowledgeable people, like Cathy Casserly, Stephen Downes, and Jon Beasley Murray, have voiced criticisms of the page (going back over four years!). To my eye, there isn't substantial disagreement; everybody pretty much agrees that the term "open education" has been used to refer to a couple different things, and that the article should reflect that. But, the article still doesn't make that clear! As of right now, the lead section (minimally) talks about OE in its decades-old context, but the very first section, on "history", launches into a discussion of Open Courseware, launched in 2002, as an "early example." We have some coherence issues; what can we do to move forward decisively?

• In the last couple of weeks a number of new Wikipedia contributors have been working on this article. (This came as a happy surprise to me!) Their accounts do not have edit histories on other articles; they haven't put information on their user pages. I believe this is probably a class assignment. This may be an opportunity, to engage with some other people interested in the quality of the article. What might be a good way to engage them in discussion about how to work together productively?

-Pete (talk) 17:51, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Phrasing Suggestion?

Initially I thought this project was to help people add Open Educational Resources into wikipedia. I'd suggest using "OER Projects" instead of just "OER". Thanks for helping make the OER Project pages more informative and useful for visitors to your site! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.87.105.203 (talk) 21:09, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Unnamed User works in resource production and is reacting to our "About" page project description here - useful feedback, thank you. - Snarfa (talk) 21:58, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for this suggestion, and for adding some examples to the "About" page! I think you're right -- hopefully this will clarify what kind of content we're working on. (I incorporated your the bullet list into the prose.) Thanks for talking this through! -Pete (talk) 17:38, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

OER in the UK: page proposal?

Just wondering whether an article on OER in the UK would be encyclopaedic? It would be a big job and I might be able to get a few others involved, but was wondering whether the topic would be too granular for general interest (and also I'd be at risk of breaching NPOV as I've been supporting a major programme of work there!) I've added some UK-centric resources to the "Resources" tab as a starting point — Preceding unsigned comment added by David.kernohan (talk • contribs) 22:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

That sounds encyclopedic to me. Whether or not it conflicts with our conflict of interest policy is more to the point. If you are clear about your conflicts on your userpage and on the talk page, you could work on the article. Just lay out very clearly your reasons for how you are constructing the article on the talk page would be my advice - be as transparent as possible and read the linked policy very closely. Wadewitz (talk) 17:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Volunteer helper/mentor

For anyone who is new to Wikipedia, please feel free to ask me any questions! Just leave me a message on my userpage. Also, if you want a specific article reviewed that you are working on, I would be happy to help. Wadewitz (talk) 17:11, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Adrienne - so delighted to have you on the team! --Sara Frank Bristow

Editing the Open Textbook Page

Hey - I am interested in working on improving the Open textbook page. Any help would be appreciated! TKLAS (talk) 16:37, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

ME TOO. I reviewed it today was appalled at how outdated and inconsistent it was. I fixed a few things - clarified the main description and first section, but it still needs more work. I started a section on the talk page where we can start discussing what else to do.-- txtbks (talk) 01:20, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Editing the Open Education Policy Page

I'm (slowly) starting work on the Open Education Policy page and recommend changing the title to Open Educational Resources Policy. Open Education Policy feels somewhat vague and ambiguous. I know of no such policies, but there are many OER policies. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjbliss (talk • contribs) 16:42, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

TJ, you might be interested in this Athabasca-based OER Mapping Exercise. It is international in scope, and would surely welcome your input as a US researcher. Scheduled to start Nov 12... -- Sara Frank Bristow —Preceding undated comment added 20:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Pete, your company is earning over $40,000 from this?

Is this really true?

Wiki Strategies portion of the Communicate OER grant budget:

Activity	Days	Money	Money per day
Project advocacy and engagement on Wikipedia, blogging, public communications	5	7,500	1,500
Recruitment, pre and post event communications, record-keeping	5	7,500	1,500
Assemble measurements of individuals' Wikipedia participation, before and after events, and assessment of article quality. Prepare final report	5	7,500	1,500
Project management	18	18,000	1,000
Total		40,500

And the first three items are for 5 days of consulting, meaning you're earning $1,500 per day for those activities? And the last item is for 18 days of consulting, meaning you're earning $1,000 per day for project management? 192.160.216.52 (talk) 17:00, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

I've posted a note on Jimbo Wales's talk page regarding this: User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#WP:Communicate_OER_paying_over_.2440.2C000_to_User:Peteforsyth.27s_company. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 17:33, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Ways to dovetail with OER Mapping discussion at Athabasca?

I see such good momentum as the OER Mapping exercise led by Susan D'Antoni vis Athabasca is launched. (Full disclosure: I am helping her sort through those messages for posterity.) Does anyone see informal ways to dovetail the efforts/outcomes of that project with this one? Is anyone involved in both? Just looking for ideas. - Sara Frank Bristow —Preceding undated comment added 22:44, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

I am interested in mapping OER as a subset of mapping the field of "openness" in general. I also think that it would be good for the OER movement to help other "open" movements map themselves out and to do so on Wikipedia, because for as long as imperfect information exists on Wikipedia imperfect understanding will propagate through society. Here is the collection of articles about openness on Wikipedia - Wikipedia:OPEN#Assessment. That probably constitutes a lot of the mapping to be done for this OER project. Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:34, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Are you reading the mapping emails? Fascinating. Open to all... "Send an email to oer-community-request@athabascau.ca and type subscribe in the subject line" - warning, there are a lot of emails flowing so far! -- Sara FB 19:24, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Workshops Scheduled for Nov 20 and Nov 27

Please sign up on the Communicate OER Events page for a basic, online introduction to Communicate OER! These will be held by Google Hangout (with Etherpad chat) on Tuesday November 20, 7 am Pacific Time, and Tuesday November 27, 6 pm Eastern Time. Feel free to post comments/questions here. - Sara FB 22:32, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Happy to have found you. May participate. Could you use UTC time please? It's just that little bit more helpful, and sends a friendlier message to folks outside the USofA Leighblackall (talk) 01:48, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, Leigh! We will update the Events page right now. Add yourself to the Team page if you like! -- Sara FB (talk) 19:25, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Special OER topics of interest for our workshops?

Pete and I were talking about a new phase of the project in which we host weekly (?) working sessions for anyone who wants to join. Perhaps one week we focus on How to Edit, one week we look at the MOOC article together, etc. I'd like to encourage anyone reading this to propose "OER articles on Wikipedia" topics that interest them, either here or to us privately. There seems to be some momentum around the issue of whether a separate article on UK OER would be appropriate, for example, building on the #UKOER12 event... -- Sara FB (talk) 17:24, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Update on Tuesday workshops

Hi all,

For some time, we have had tomorrow, and next Tuesday, listed for events (see the "Events" tab above). For now, we are planning to host a very informal session tomorrow, for anyone who would like to set up; we will be looking at the MOOC article, as well as any other OER-related articles people are interested in. We will also be discussing the format for future Tuesday sessions.

-Pete (talk) 21:42, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

UK OER article on Wikipedia?

In honor of UKOER12 I'd like to revive the discussion of whether an article on OER in the UK is appropriate, as raised by D. Kohernan on Oct 16, discussed by A. Wadewitz on Oct 17, and reposted here:

"Just wondering whether an article on OER in the UK would be encyclopaedic? It would be a big job and I might be able to get a few others involved, but was wondering whether the topic would be too granular for general interest (and also I'd be at risk of breaching NPOV as I've been supporting a major programme of work there!) I've added some UK-centric resources to the "Resources" tab as a starting point — Preceding unsigned comment added by David.kernohan (talk • contribs) 22:33, 16 October 2012 (UTC)"

"That sounds encyclopedic to me. Whether or not it conflicts with our conflict of interest policy is more to the point. If you are clear about your conflicts on your userpage and on the talk page, you could work on the article. Just lay out very clearly your reasons for how you are constructing the article on the talk page would be my advice - be as transparent as possible and read the linked policy very closely. Wadewitz (talk) 17:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)"

Very curious to have others' input! Re: this or other countries... - Sara Frank Bristow

Pulling this out of the archive, as we have had some recent interest in this article. -Pete (talk) 16:18, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Global OER?

I have been collecting information on OERs worldwide for a Sugar Labs program that I have started. Can we talk about structuring pages on the global movement and actions in each country concerned?--Cherlin (talk) 03:05, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Welcome Ed. That is a fascinating idea - I think you are suggesting an article on the "OER Movement" itself? Feel free to add to suggested "content" tab.- Sara FB (talk) 17:36, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

OER13!

Who's going? Setting up some CommOER meetups. - Sara FB (talk) 16:37, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Getting ready for Open Ed week and School of Open launch tomorrow!

Look for the announcements. :) Hope lots of you can join the course... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snarfa (talk • contribs) 23:38, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Launched!

If you've just joined the School of Open course, welcome!!! "See" you in the first webinar on 19 March ("Wikipedia under the hood"). Sara FB (talk) 15:57, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Looking forward to the course. I've been away from Wikipedia for too long. K1v1n (talk) 00:43, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Welcome K1v1n! Glad to have you! Feel free to join the Communicate OER project team (see tab above) if you're also an OER person. No worries if not. :) - Sara FB (talk) 02:42, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Why no articles on xMOOC, cMOOC? How about FutureLearn?

Happy to help newbies tackle these articles if community deems them necessary. - Sara FB (talk) 10:53, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure the different types of mooc warrant separate articles, particularly given how different many moocs are - we might be able to provide definitions but I'm less clear how many moocs actually fit in to them, what the defining features of some things calling themselves 'moocs', etc. are. I agree FutureLearn should be on the mooc article, at the moment it's very american-centric. I'm slightly reluctant to add it myself as I'm at the OU :-) I also think it'd be great if there were more non-English mooc providers (or independent moocs) listed. I know I spoke to someone about some French moocs, I'm sure there are others (another English one but I'm sure I saw something about an Australian provider this week). One concern I have with listing providers is it might become much harder to stop people spamming the page - I've removed a few references to companies, which was fairly easy because a) they weren't noteworthy and b) they clearly weren't running moocs - but as providers diversify that might be harder...? Sjgknight (talk) 10:16, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Brief mention of Futurelearn now on the mooc page. I agree it'd be good to have a Futurelearn page, especially if it covered some of the interesting discussion around its creation (and the history of EU uni & the OU, etc.) Sjgknight (talk) 13:31, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Lots of articles out there! Though not much info. - Sara FB (talk) 18:21, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Mooc table?

Copying this from Talk:Massive open online course: I started drafting this offline, I'm a bit swamped/want to share at this point. It needs a) tightening and b) citation, but what do people think to replacing some of the text with something like this?

	Opportunity	Challenge
Moocs are new	Challenge current model and innovate	They’re not tried and tested but may lead to lowest common denominator
Low cost delivery	Widen access to educational opportunities to poorer, and different demographics	New digital divides may emerge, particularly between those who can afford premium or not, and those who can afford traditional (campus-based) degrees and not
Quality of provision	Moocs allow A/B testing, and other innovative design solutions at large scale. Most university pedagogy is pretty poor currently, moocs allow large scale innovation.	Pedagogy at large scale is reduced. Many moocs based on instructivist pedagogy (e.g. watching videos). Shallow interactions between participants.
Course Credit	Moocs allow students to construct their own degree from credit	Lose value of traditional degree; Moocs often lack the ‘c’ – they are not actually courses; Quality of education concerns
‘Premium Services’	Opportunity to earn real course credit from moocs	Campuses wither and die, creates class divide, two tier system, marketisation and fragmentation of higher education (deprofessionalisation?)
Traditional campuses	Opportunity to reduce cost of traditional campus, and re-focus them. New business models of lifelong learning may create need for local specialist centres which universities may contribute to. Disruptive value of moocs is good thing.	Risk of new divides (See above), risk of loss of expertise, campuses provide more experience than just the degree, moocs’ focus on ‘value’ is at cost of true value of campus/university.

Sjgknight (talk) 09:47, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Sjgknight, would you consider discussing this on theWP:COMMOER project talk page? May find interest. Please join our team if you're interested (and haven't already). - Sara FB (talk) 11:31, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Sjgknight (talk) 10:15, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

OER Policy article

I'd like to work on the OER Policy article and am an Analyst at Creative Commons. I hope to have the draft ready by March 2013, happy to get any input! - Anna Daniel (talk) 23:28, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Anna - that's great news! Other people who have expressed interest in working on this article are Paul Bacsich (UK) and TJ Bliss (iNACOL). I'm looking forward to seeing to the draft article and can help direct them to it when the time comes! - Sara FB (talk) 20:36, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Update: we'll make some headway on this at OER13 in Nottingham this month - exciting stuff. Sara FB (talk) 07:44, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Other users interested in working on this include User:ChristineBushMV and User:Sallyeh1...

Consensus = YES we need to get this moving. I started something very draft draft after the conference sessions.... User:Snarfa/sandbox Comments? Anyone want to take it from here? SHOULD this be an article or just part of the open educational resources one? - Sara FB (talk) 18:20, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

People interested in working on this one:

• User:Pbacsich
• User:Sallyeh1
• User:Tjbliss

Update! Article now underway! See open educational resources policy. - Sara FB (talk) 02:19, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

I'd like to work on an article of my research project, which already exists in the meta-wiki version (is "version" the proper name?). This is the page, with the link: Wikimedia Meta-wiki. Research:wiki4he [1]. I'm also interested in translate the main articles of OER to the catalan version of Wikipedia (Viquipèdia). Is anybody interested in translation of OER contents to another language version of Wikipedia? Thanks, (Mauralerga (talk) 10:52, 12 April 2013 (UTC)mauralerga)

OER and Libraries

Wondering if an "OER and Libraries" subsection would be useful at all? Or adding a paragraph in the main article under "Institutional Support" about libraries? Nafpaktitism (talk) 03:41, 1 April 2013 (UTC)nafpakitism

Hi Nafpaktitism, I assume you are talking about a section in the main article open educational resources? This seems likely to be a good addition, but as with most things, it will depend on the quality of independent sources. If you can cite good articles, books, web sites, etc. that talk about OERs and libraries, that will be a strong foundation for adding such a section to the article. If you'd like, please add links here to any sources you would like to cite, and we can discuss. -Pete (talk) 12:31, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

I just read this article and thought of this thread. Perhaps this article from the Open Education Database can be a possible citation for this subsection (if/when it is created). Johnnytecmo (talk) 16:56, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

new review

I just posted a review of Open Learning for Development. Please take a look! -LukeLynch (talk) 13:32, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Looks great - I commented over there. - Sara FB (talk) 22:30, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

related grant proposal

Dear Wikipedia Educators: We're advancing an Individual Engagement Grant here. If this is something you and your students might like to be involved with, please add an endorsement. Comments or questions in advance of the September 30th deadline would be most welcome on the proposal's talk page. In particular, our project involves translation work which we hope might be interesting to students.

--Fabrizio Terzi P2PU (talk) 17:13, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

New article for review

I just posted an article on the 20 Million Minds Foundation. Please review and edit. - Dfharris02 (talk) 16:37, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

WikiConference UK

Hi there, just to post (could go on events page?) I'm speaking at the WikiConference UK on Saturday about Mediawiki for OER and Learning Analytics, may be of interest in this project - I should have slides/audio up after the event on slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/sjgknight/. http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_UK_2013#Saturday.2C_8_June Sjgknight (talk) 08:42, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Updated article list!

Hi team members! Wondering which articles to work on in the final phase of the CommOER project? Check our revisions to the Content tab above. Post a note here (hit "New Section" above) if you'd like to volunteer to spearhead any tier one, tier two, or tier three articles! Contact me with any questions. - Sara FB (talk) 01:52, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Open

CommOER team members are now involved in planning WikiProject Open! Check it out here. - Sara FB (talk) 14:47, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Moving the talk page!

WikiProject Open will be an ongoing project, but Communicate OER will be winding down in the coming months. So several of us agreed that it would be best to change this talk page so that it automatically redirects to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Open (shortcut: WT:OPEN), so that we can continue any discussions about Wikipedia's coverage of OER there, along with people from WikiProject Open Access, etc.

So, I would suggest that if you've been watching this page, you should go to WT:OPEN and add that to your watch list as well. I will do this transition as smoothly as possible, and ensure that all past conversations are archived in a way that they're easy to find. Please let me know if you have questions! (You can see a bit more of our thinking process here if you're interested: WP:OPEN planning) -Pete (talk) 15:42, 18 October 2013 (UTC)