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THE OPEN EDTECH COLLABORATIVE

CONTRIBUTIONS, NOT CONTRACTS



The OpenETC is a community of educators, technologists, and designers sharing
their expertise to foster and support open infrastructure for the BC
post-secondary sector.  No contracts or agreements are required to join us, just
a willingness and ability to actively participate in our collective endeavor to:

 * encourage technological autonomy and provide ways for students, faculty and
   institutions to own and control their own data.
 * lower the barrier to participation on the open web for BC faculty and
   students.
 * provide a more sustainable ed tech infrastructure to BC higher education that
   gives institutions more control over their tools.  Institutions are currently
   at the mercy of vendor pricing, upgrade cycles, and exit strategies.  This
   puts institutions at a certain degree of risk when there are changes to any
   of the variables beyond their control.  Open-source approaches reduce the
   risk to institutions in this regard.
 * assist BC faculty in evaluating and making informed pedagogical decisions
   around open-source teaching and learning applications.

OpenETC is guided by its creators Brian Lamb, Grant Potter, and Tannis
Morgan and advisors Clint Lalonde and Anne-Marie Scott.

SHARING INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG WITH CONTENT

“open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws
upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the
open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the
best ideas of their colleagues.” ~ Cape Town Open Education Declaration, 2007
Open-source educational technologies are not often considered as viable
institutional options in highered as advocates face challenges competing with
commercial vendors responding to standard IT procurement practices.  RFP
processes typically favour commercial applications and limit open-source
involvement in the educational technology space at most institutions.
Open-source software relies on the development of communities of both developers
and users in order to be successful. The success comes from sharing knowledge
about how the software is constructed and can be utilized.  The OpenETC pools
expertise and resources to support shared infrastructure.  We promote
inter-institutional collaboration and provide shared open-source platforms
enabling co-creation and sharing of open educational resources and approaches to
open pedagogy.  

INCUBATING A COOP



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“The most valuable networks, however, are those that facilitate group
affiliations to pursue shared goals—which is to say, networks that are treated
like commons … First, platforms are us: Platforms aren’t just software
applications and the companies that administer them. What gives a platform
value, in most cases, is the community of users that employ the platform, along
with the networks, data, and ideas they create. In other words, what makes
platforms so valuable is what we put into them. Second, platforms don’t need to
be treated as commodities.”  ~ Ours To Hack And To Own     The OpenETC aspires
to the goals of platform cooperativism.  As we grow, we intend to further
articulate our community to adopt modes of participation and support found
within platform cooperatives. Platform co-ops are online services collectively
owned and governed by the people who depend on and participate in them. That
includes those who deliver the underlying service by contributing labor, time,
skills, and/or assets. Where most platforms extract value and distribute it to
shareholding owners who seek a return on their investment, platform co-ops
distribute ownership and management to its participants — those working for the
platform or those using the service.  














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THE OPENETC IS GRATEFUL TO BCCAMPUS FOR THE SUPPORT AND THE COLLABORATIONS.


SITES @OPENETC

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 * LearnHub
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 * My Learning Portfolio
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 * Julia's blog
   
 * marshachan
   
 * BiochemicalMechanic
   
 * han
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