OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
The key enablers we focus on are
- open source code, open multimedia content and the community or institutional structures that produce or enable them;
- the growth of what we are calling participatory systems architecture;[1]
- the continuing improvement in performance and access to the underlying information and communication technology (ICT);
- increasing availability and use of rich media, virtual environments, and gaming; and
- the emerging deeper basic insights into human learning (both individual and community) that can informed and validated by pilot projects and action-based research.
Figure 4—Enablers and collateral initiative context for the OPLI Initiative.
These enablers are already empowering major domestic and international transformative initiatives in science and engineering research and education (e-science, a. k. a. cyberinfrastructure-enhanced science) and salients of innovation
- ↑ Our notion of architecture includes both technical and social dimensions.
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