OERInterop-SocialNetwork

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Social Networks and Communities of Practice?

 * Importance of collaborative tools and its relationship interoperability
 * But we seem to be talking about social networking and collaborative tools in addition to interoperability
 * Hearing about how materials can be adopted and used (these need to go along with the materials themselves, these wouldn’t necessarily be considered interoperability issues)
 * Where are the communities of practice?
 * (For Connexions the communities that participated were one of the early success factors)
 * Need a community talking about the content and how it can be used
 * What do we need to do (tools and resources) to help all of the existing communities not have to build/do everything, how do we scaffold their process?
 * What can we do to make “life easier for the user”?
 * In a perfect world, nobody would have to be trained on how to use OERs (or whatever) their use is transparent
 * Open Participatory Learning Network
 * In creating learning networks, the content is the glue in which the interactions happen
 * Merging of social networks into the Web itself (via “standards” and shared APIs)
 * Is the “open social graph” part of the solution?

The Future:
 * In the future, you don’t go to a website, the content and people come to you (e.g., RSS in today’s language)
 * How are things linked together (Open Sensemaking communities), it’s more than stuff linked together, but arguments and ideas (as in knowledge mapping), link maps together, create new patterns
 * People, locations, and other things are resources, not just content