Learning4Content/Workshops/Online schedule/eL4C38/OERS

Please read the OER Handbook Version 1.0

Why "share" expertise &amp; resources in these times?
Sharing resources continues the OER life cycle and its free. --Crdavis71 14:23, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Two heads are better than one. FG 19:08, 28 May 2010 (UTC)FG

Why higher education institutions like MIT, Tufts University, and others place open courses online?
Probably because they are aware that those problems we are facing on a global scale need answers from a 'global brain' like online communities which are sharing human thoughts, observations, intuition and solutions?

Another point of view could be: There are people in charge, who have developed a more community-oriented style of thinking? A model describing a evolutionary oscillation between personal(ego)-centric and community-centered styles of thinking and behaviors in individuals as well as in societies was developed by | Dr. Clare Graves in the second half of the last century. Nowadays it is referred to as | Spiral Dynamics. But be careful, today there's a lot of "management- & coach-talk" involved. Stick to the roots, where research in psychology and sociology was more important than marketing ;-). ---Reiner- 09:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)