Comments on: Thoughts from the Hewlett Open Ed Grantees Meeting http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/192 pragmatism over zeal Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Teemu http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/192/comment-page-1#comment-804 Teemu Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:53:31 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/192#comment-804 Good points. I also think that in the end of your post you already implicitly say that the answer is *not* "localization", but empowering people to take part in the discourse. The answer is to give people opportunity to present their OER’s for themselves and others. And you are right: this is both scalable and sustainable. By giving more people a voice also we – in the world of thousands of OERs – may get more interested in the strangers interpretations of the world. I really hope that students will have a change to see both films: Shichinin no samurai and the Magnificent Seven. If we then spend more time with the strangers’ OERs there is a greater possibility that we will start to understand and respect each other a little more than we do today. I have a dream :-) Good points. I also think that in the end of your post you already implicitly say that the answer is *not* “localization”, but empowering people to take part in the discourse. The answer is to give people opportunity to present their OER’s for themselves and others. And you are right: this is both scalable and sustainable.

By giving more people a voice also we – in the world of thousands of OERs – may get more interested in the strangers interpretations of the world. I really hope that students will have a change to see both films: Shichinin no samurai and the Magnificent Seven.

If we then spend more time with the strangers’ OERs there is a greater possibility that we will start to understand and respect each other a little more than we do today. I have a dream :-)

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