Educause’s new Openness Constituent Group 2008 October 24
I have just found out that their is a newly formed Openness Constituent Group within EDUCAUSE. According to EDUCAUSE:
“The EDUCAUSE Constituent and Discussion Group Program supports online group dialogue among members and others with common interests and experience in special topics and most groups meet at the EDUCAUSE annual conference. Through e-mail listservs, communities form around ongoing, focused IT concerns, with individual subscribers contributing or listening in on news, issues, policies, practices, questions, and solutions in the topic areas.”
In other words, these groups aim to be an online community of practice that also meets in person at the annual EDUCAUSE meetings. The Openess group
“focuses on the emergence and adoption of open technologies, practices, policies, and initiatives, and how they affect the delivery and support of education. Topics include but are not limited to free and open source software, open content, open educational resources, open courseware, open standards, and management practices such as open business and enterprise 2.0.”
The first Openess discussion session will be held at the upcoming EDUCAUSE Conference, Thursday, October 30, 2008, 4:55 p.m. – 6:10 p.m. in room Room W340D. If you ar e lucky enough to be going to EDUCAUSE (which I am not), you might want to check the group out and let me know what you think.