Thread:Summary of prototype course features, discussion page themes and issues (4)

Response to delivery models: Comment on collaboration

For me the message on peer-to-peer collaboration is that there are a variety of technologies and open web services available and that the OERu should encourage freedom of choice to allow learners to use what they want to use.

This has significant advantages for the scalability of the OERu on a global scale because the open Internet becomes the collaboration environment. Far cheaper and easier to "maintain" as new technologies become available.

OERu anchor partners should be careful with vendor lock-in issues when suggesting or prescribing technology alternatives.