1.

• Pass the baton and run a faster race
• Paul Seiler

2. 2008 Beijing Olympic Games:

• Usain Bolt's gold in the 100m: 9.69 seconds

3. Times four: 38.76 seconds

4. Jamaica's time for 4 x 100m: 37.1 seconds 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games

• Lerone Clarke's gold in 100m: 10.12 seconds

5. Times four: 40.48 seconds

6. England's time for 4 x 100m: 38.74 seconds Compare the times 7. Running a good and fast race http://www.flickr.com/photos/notacrime/2817697432/ 8. Managed learning environments Software tools and digital content that support learning

Comprised of many different modules, such as an student management systemMS, LMS, eportfolio tool, blog, repositories for digital learning objects and many more

9. Every (NZ) school has an mle 10. Active work stream include:

Identity and access management

11. Parent portals 12. Attendance management 13. Assessment 14. Eportfolios 15. Content 16. 5 of 8 Curriculum & Pedagogy National curriculum School curriculum inc. lesson plans Learning Management Systems (LMS) ePortfolios (record of learning) Course Management Systems Assessment tools Planning tools Communication Blogs Podcasts Chatrooms Noticeboards Social networking Discussion threads Audio conferencing Video/web conferencing Administration Student Management Systems (SMS) Student Record Transfer (SMS-SMSNCEA returns Calendaring Timetabling eReturns ENROL Resources TKI Websites Wikis Digital Learning Objects Library Management Systems Content Management Systems Authoring/publishing/editing tools Other content sources (open access ) Enabling ServicesIAM / SSO National Student Index Parental portal Transport mechanisms Metadata schema Interoperability standards Specifications Shared content 17. Objective of our mle activity

To design and promote an

• educationally relevant

18. open

19. modular 20. standards-based 21. sustainable approach to the development and use of MLE for (NZ) schools http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim7423/206730683/sizes/m/in/photostream/ 22. The content challenge

LMShave some type of editor that enables the user to layout text without any knowledge of HTML, add graphics and make links

But it is difficult to share content between school, take it with you or use it in an application other than in which it was created Our focus is to break the dependency between the content and the LMS

Or

23. To set the content free http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/321434733 / 24. Reusable and portable content: Requirements and solutions

Conceptual model (Feb '09)

25. Based on workflow analysis, identifying key stages and relationship between them 26. Wide ranging recs that rapidly matured our underastanding and decisions making 27. Introductions to new people and places http://bit.ly/Digitalresourceworkflow 28. Reusable and portable content: The Wiki option C oncretetechnical model for incremental implementation (June '09)

Coversauthoring, sharing, re-use and ensuring interoperability with multiple learning environments

29. Based on realisation that wiki markup is sufficient to cater for our content needs (cf various packaging and runtime standards) http://bit.ly/Contentoptions 30. Reusable and portable content: The funding proposal

Open philanthropy from the other buyer's perspective

31. OER as part of the deal 32. Three work streams and phased 33. Coversauthoring, sharing, re-use and ensuring interoperability with multiple learning environments http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools 34. Reusable and portable content meets oer Challenges in the areas of policy, politics and perception Appreciating the opportunities of a good return on investment, reuse and new relationships Permission requestedhttp://activerain.com/blogsview/1096767/russel-s-gardening-handbook-grafting 35. OERNZ online http://wikieducator.org/New_Zealand_Schools_OER_Portal Early successes in seeding community,prompting a national conversation, FCK editor in WE, etc Assisted greatly byNZGOAL 36. Connections are all important http://www.flickr.com/photos/vasta/167104294/in/photostream/

Between people (e.g. educators, policy makers, CEO's; international OER community, vendors)

37. Between tools (3 supported LMS,DigitalNZfor a metadata store and search, offline authoring in OpenOffice or MSWord, etc) 38. Between collections (requires attention to IP, content formats, repositories, IAM/SSO, etc) 39. WikiEducator as one hub or commons http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickso/3045996440/in/photostream/

What is at the centre in a highly decentralised education system?

40. How, therefore, should OER work in such a context? 41. Exploring the path to sensei http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsueniero/2040889355/

After two years we have only just started

42. The journey has a long way to go yet 43. Early signs are positive 44. Education needs this to succeed 45. Giving up is not an opion 46. We are interested beginners 47. Questions http://www.flickr.com/photos/80417459@N00/2471314610/in/photostream/

Ask now, or

48. Visit ourGoogle Group , or 49. VisitWikiEducator , or 50. Email paul.seiler[at]minedu.govt.nz