OERu/OERu 16.10 Meeting/Group 4 Tech community source

Task: Identify strategies to improve partner engagement in development and adoption of OERu open source technologies and foster the implementation of a community source model

Remember to add any issues that your group would like to be tabled at the CEOs meeting on the [ issues list].

What are the tangible benefits for partners to engage in OERu open source technologies?

 * Reduce costs and efforts of exploring new tool options.
 * Open source tools and standards reduce the risks of tools becoming obsolete or incompatible, reduce "lock-in".
 * OERu provides demonstration, proof of concept of useful tools. OERu installs can serve as sandbox or test instances.
 * Responsive and proactive role in innovation

List strategies to improve partner engagement in development and adoption

 * Let OERu Tech Group be a "technological nexus" assisting with assessment and deployment of new technologies among its members.
 * Provide an open resource/tool/learning repository.
 * Renewed call for OERu Tech WG members among members.
 * Implement communication strategies to reduce instances of collaborative partners adopting mutually incompatible tools and technologies

Decision proposals
Don't forget to assign responsibility for implementing the decisions - i.e who will do it

Issue Raised
There is a tension between notion of course content that exists as "living documents", or "forked versions" and the "quality assurance" attached to an "approved version" that is credentialed.