Open education 2008
It is a little ironic that this was not the session I meant to attended but I got more out of it than the sesion I planned to attended. Unfortunately I do not remember the name of the presentation, only that the gentleman Jose, was from Monterey Mexico. The substance of the presentation was about a website built to catalog and validate OER’s. The name of the site, Knowledge Hub, KHUB is built to house OERs.
The idea of the website and its goal is what really intrigued me. The intent is to create a community that would review and vet OERs for use in an academic environment ranging from High School to the College level.
One of the concerns for some of those attending was how people would be compensated for providing peer review to validate the material posted. Many present seemed to feel that such an idea wouldn’t work. People would demand or need some type of compensation in order to perform the service requested.
I felt that the opposite may be true, I may be naïve there too. If the idea behind open education is provide material for all to use shouldn’t the community also develop a way to review and monitor the quality of the content? I believe this to be the case. As the open education movement continues to grow and develop I could see people wanting to have some way to validate the work that is there. Peer review would be the best way to accomplish this.
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Submitted by Brad Allred on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 8:31pm
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