David Wiley, iterating toward openness, announced the initiation of the Open Education Oral History Project, which makes its first moves by exploring and compiling oral accounts of the upcoming Open Education 2008 Conference participants regarding their experience pertinent to the Open Education Movement. The project is inspired by the remarkable storycorps project, which compiles life histories of everyday people. David highlights how the project is going to be executed including the main questions that guide the oral history exploration:
- How did you get involved in the open education movement?
- Which of your contributions to the open education movement are you most proud of?
- What are the most important lessons you’ve learned as you’ve been involved with the movement?
- From your perspective, what are the biggest obstacles for the movement?
- What do you think is the ideal future for the movement? What do you think is the most likely future for the movement?
We’ll be remixing highlights / memorable moments from interviews and sharing these the final day of the conference. But even if you can’t attend the conference this year, I hope you’ll take a few minutes with your favorite audio recording application, answer these questions, and leave a link to your mp3 file in the comments below, along with your name, affiliation, and some contact info. Something like this:
Open Education Oral History Interview, David Wiley, Brigham Young University, david.wiley@gmail.com
To be included in the project archive, your interview audio should be licensed CC By. All the audio we collect will be made available for direct download as well as through iTunes (I’ll post download links after the conference). While we hope to assemble a critical mass of interviews before / during the conference, the archive will be “open” for submissions even after the conference on an ongoing basis.
