Thread:Open ICT Infrastructure (1)

This goes back to the SCOPE summary. Finding a free online platform or specifying that learning materials for the OER university be developed (or converted) into open file formats that are equally accessible by a variety of Learning Management Systems (LMSs).

The free online platform doesn't exist. That's what OERers (and others) are attempting to agree upon. A platform is "Infrastructure as a Platform" (IaaP), on top of which "Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS)can be delivered/shared. N.B. Applications like Moodle are a "service" in network speak. The network managers who connect each country together are talking about how they can serve global "virtual orgs" like OER members by puttng together an "open cloud". But they have little discussion with global user group, unless it'a big project. The platforms OERers talk about are dismissed as "commodities'.

If OERes invite Only an institutional techie to this meet, they will close this opportunity down. What would be ideal is a meet between a tech from each partner institution and the "applications" manager in their NREN. The savings for each member institution here are massive. But it does mean that institutional techs must be redeployed. As they fear their future, they resist. --Simonfj 02:41, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

How can anchor partners assist in supporting technology infrastructure of a global network like the OERu in a sustainable way? 1. By defining a common specification, to their NRENs, of both the social platform(s)which are to be used as the members marketing arm, and the applications which will provide the "institutional learning area". i.e. what OERers call an institutional LMS. I've pointed previously to OER's "parrallel universe in the Network space"; in particular the surfconext doc which offers the basis of an "open and shareable global network", including Google's apps. Just agree on a wish list (of functions, not necessaily an existing software packagee.

2. Understand what Federated services means. And then consider a Confederation of services = Combination of easy to use apps.

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