Currently focused on the technology important to the self-determined learner, a reference architecture for the digitization of oceans, and in building year-round greenhouses for Newfoundland and Labrador.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Do bounties work?
The "work" I am doing with WikiEducator is in trying to fill out the the multimedia resources available for OpenOffice / Ubuntu learning. We had offered a $1500 CDN bounty for each 3 -5 minute multimedia component developed. This seems like a good offer, but I wonder if the idea of OER and wiki collaboration includes the concept of money. I always believed that OER and wiki authorship was a volunteer activity. And when you throw $$$ into the mix everything becomes skewd...
Thursday, May 08, 2008
ScoPE [SOF2008]
This looks to be a very good conference; Shaping our Future: Toward a Pan-Canadian E-learning Research Agenda. I look forward to meeting people online.