Jim Groom on the Wiki Education Project 'Murder Madness and Mayhem' at OER16
Channel: Wikimedian in Residence - University of Edinburgh
Date: 2016-09-10

Excerpt from ALT's recording of Jim Groom's keynote address 'Can we imagine tech Infrastructure as an OER? Or, Clouds, Containers, and APIs, Oh My!' delivered at OER16 Conference hosted at the University of Edinburgh 20th April 2016. 

"We often frame OERs, open, shareable educational resources, in relationship to content, but rarely in relationship to shared technical infrastructure. How would our conception of OERs expand if we could easily and efficiently create and share applications across institutions? What if we focused more on small, focused, re-usable software as reflective of specific cultures rather than large, institutional repositories as monolithic solutions? What if we worked towards a collaborative infrastructure for open educational resources that was always framed and scaled at the level of the individual, not unlike the web. With the shift in web infrastructure to the cloud, and the advent of APIs and containers, we may be entering a moment wherein the open culture of networks, rather than pre-defined educational content, is representative of the future of OER culture. How might the agile contours of a burgeoning network of distributed and collaborative edtech be the key to sustainable future for open educational resources?"

View the full talk here: http://bit.ly/2cs0heH