Tag: Joint Information Systems Committee

Sharing without community is just piling stuff up

by Dominik Lukeš ·

This is a post about knowledge, community, online repositories, OERs, and the ethnography of the teacher staffroom inspired by a recent experience with JORUM . What was the last time you learned something interesting or helpful ? I'm willing to bet that it was one of these: 1. Somebody you know or trust told you…

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JISC Elevator might bring more responsiveness to research funding

by Dominik Lukeš ·

Finally, JISC is turning some of the innovation and creativity it has poured into technology into the process of funding itself. The idea of JISC Elevator (see http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/07/28/project-pitching-jisc-elevator-concept/ ) is modeled on the Mozilla Drumbeat ( http://www.drumbeat.org ) - a Kickstarter-like project but with more varied sources of funding. With Kickstarter people have to back…

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