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Issue No. 01 - January/February (2007 vol. 9)
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Pam Frost Gorder , Freelance Writer
On the second day of an earthquake research meeting in Tokushima, Japan, John Rundle sits in his hotel room, making a phone call through his laptop computer. Although it's only 6:00 a.m. local time, he's long been awake, still anchored in California time. In a few hours, he'll share some of the latest earthquake research from his laboratory at the University of California, Davis, with the conference attendees. His forecast, set to appear in the 1 December 2006 issue of Physical Review Letters, is an eerie one: northern California is likely to experience an earthquake of at least magnitude 6 on the Richter scale in the next 18 months.
The statement is astonishing, not just because it predicts a major earthquake, but because it does so with such precision. The physical forces that govern seismic events are so complex that scientists have struggled to assemble forecasts on the scale of decades. Now a new statistical technique has enabled Rundle's team to narrow the forecast window to less than three years—and in the present case, to only a year and a half. The calculations require a day of supercomputing time, but he and his partners plan to automate research-quality forecasts and make them available online. "Every day, we will recompute forecasts for these large earthquakes for northern and southern California," he says. "You can only do this with grid computing."
The idea of linking supercomputers into a computational grid to confront big problems isn't a new one, but Rundle and others in Earth science are doing something different. They're linking grids together—effectively, using grids of grids—thanks to a software movement that takes its name from the musical phenomenon known as the mashup.
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Artists have made musical mashups since at least the 1950s, combining portions of two or more songs into one. But the genre achieved new popularity in the 1990s, when music-editing software became widely available, and people could publish homemade mashups on the Internet. As music critic Sasha Frere-Jones explains, "The most celebrated mashups are melodically tuned, positing a harmonic relationship between, say, Madonna's voice and the Sex Pistols' guitars" ("1 + 1 + 1 = 1," The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2005).
The philosophy of software mashups isn't so different: two complementary Web applications merge to create a custom tool. The number is growing every day, as companies like Google and Yahoo make the APIs for their programs publicly available. (Google offers its developer tools at http://code.google.com/ and Yahoo at http://developer.yahoo.com/.) As of mid-November 2006, the comprehensive ProgrammableWeb site ( www.programmableweb.com) lists more than 1,200 mashups, nearly two-thirds of which are map-related. The most commonly mashed-up API is Google Maps. Users have combined it with everything from apartment listings to crime statistics—any data set with a geographic component will do.
Marlon Pierce, assistant director of the Community Grids Lab (CGL) at Indiana University, was already developing grid applications when Google Maps debuted in the summer of 2005. That December, at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, he reported CGL's first Google mashup: a seismic data map of the American Southwest.
"A lot of people are interested in Google Maps and Google Earth," Pierce says. "Google did a really good job making them both easy to use, but they also made it easy for people to develop new applications with them. So that was a lesson for the rest of us: a particular application can be complicated, but the face it presents to the outside world should be simple."
The mashup helps get the most out of computing grids. An application can reside on one grid, and a data set on another. The person who wants to use both could be anywhere—as long as all the applications and data sets follow compatible standards, and toolkits exist to bring them together, the combinations are endless.
Pierce is project director for the CrisisGrid ( www.crisisgrid.org), a project at CGL that aims to build and integrate such services on the Web, especially for Earth science. "This is our basic quest, to integrate those applications—what I'd call 'Execution Grid' services—with 'Data Grid' services. We want to provide a common framework," he says. CrisisGrid data could be anything from GPS station output to roadmaps to census data—all of which can be managed by geographical information system (GIS) services. "These problems may take a long time to calculate, and some of them have to be solved on supercomputers, but the data you get out of them is not at all abstract. You can display them with standard GIS-type services."
He and his colleagues use a distributed computing methodology called publish/subscribe. Users subscribe to a data set, which is pushed to them and published in a way similar to a subscription newsfeed. Middleware filters convert the data to desired formats, and other filters insert the data into Web tools such as Google Maps. In this way, the data set and the Web application that created it are out of the hands of the originators and into users' hands. Pierce says that's the idea of the mashup: "You just provide a service; you don't really care what anybody does with it."
Andrea Donnellan leads the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) science team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which gathers satellite imagery of seismic activity. She predicts that interoperable Web services will be even more common in the future than they are today, and she expects more scientists will apply pattern-recognition methods to grid data. Donnellan looks forward to a future InSAR mission that will cover the entire globe and produce roughly 200 Gbytes of data per day. "Computational methods will be necessary for ingesting and understanding the data," she says.
Real Hazards, Virtual California
Unlike hurricanes, which form seasonally and can be spotted before they endanger life, earthquakes can happen any time, anywhere without warning. On 15 November 2006—less than a week after Donnellan and Rundle returned to the US from the meeting in Tokushima—an 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck the northernmost part of Japan. The next day, a 5.2-magnitude quake struck Taiwan. As of this writing, no casualties have been reported from either quake, although the first one sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean that damaged docks in northern California.
Experts don't question whether the "Big One"—an earthquake of magnitude 8 or more—will strike California via the San Andreas Fault. It's only a question of when, where, and how big. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was blamed on the fault, and probably would have registered near magnitude 8 had the scale existed then. Earth scientists are working hard to develop forecasts to help California residents and government agencies prepare for future quakes. As a result, the entire fault system and much of the southwestern US are dotted with permanent GPS stations that enable the monitoring of every tiny tremor. All that seismic data is archived, and much of it is publicly available.
Such a data set is maintained by the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Pierce and his team, led by Geoffrey Fox at Indiana University, are working with SOPAC to convert a Web application that previously processed daily data to one that can process real-time data. SOPAC uses data mining software to pick out modes in seismic activity—patterns of GPS station movement.
"Our challenge is to apply this mode of detection to data that comes out once per second instead of once per day. We don't know what kind of modes to expect, so it will be interesting to see what might be hidden in those GPS signals," Pierce says.
Rundle's UC Davis team used data mining—a combination of algorithmic techniques called Relative Intensity Pattern Informatics (RIPI)—to construct its new forecast. To test the technique, they created a "hindcast" of seismic activity in northern and southern California since 1960. RIPI correctly predicted the time "windows" during which 16 out of 17 major groups of earthquakes occurred. "That's not a random coincidence. There's something causal at work," Rundle says. "We've discovered an underlying pattern in the timing of these earthquakes."
If RIPI is correct, the next major earthquake to strike California will happen in the northern part of the state by mid 2008. Rundle emphasized that the situation for southern California could change at any time, but at least his method gives an indication of whether a region is at high risk. Soon, he and his group believe they might be able to predict the locations of individual major earthquakes to within 50 kilometers or less.
Real seismic data fueled this new forecast, but the team is also using simulated data in a project called Virtual California. It applies everything that scientists know about the physics of fault systems to simulate millions of years of earthquakes. Rundle hopes to mine the simulations for clues as to how the real San Andreas operates.
Virtual California is one of three simulators under development for the QuakeSim project at NASA ( http://quakesim.jpl.nasa.gov/). Donnellan heads this project, which aims for interoperability between all its freely downloadable tools.
Multidisciplinary, Multigrid
Pierce sees mashups as a democratizing force in the building of grid applications. He also suspects that letting people develop their own tools will be a boon to research. "I think we should encourage scientific mashups. When you look at the grid projects that have been the most successful, like high-energy physics or astronomy, the work has been led by the physical scientists," he says. "They have been making their own software."
Not everyone is a programming expert, and that's why mashups work so well. Scientists don't need to know specific details about how the tools work, as long as they know the parts that matter for the problem they're trying to solve.
Still, Pierce won't call the use of scientific mashups a paradigm shift. "I think the possibility [of a paradigm shift] is there, but I think it will take some very successful applications to convince people that this is what they should do."
JPL's Donnellan agrees that ease of use is the key. "The more off-the-shelf and plug-and-play grid computing is, the more earthquake scientists will make use of the available resources," she says.
To Rundle, the progress being made by his group at UC Davis ( http://hirsute.cse.ucdavis.edu/ ~rundle/), as well as by the CrisisGrid and QuakeSim projects, proves that there's a major place for computational science within earthquake forecasting. He calls for more collaboration between the Earth and computational sciences and statistical physics, which is especially suited for dealing with multidimensional data systems such as earthquake phenomena.
"Without the ideas of statistical physics, we would never have been able to do this," Rundle says. "Much of the theory we used came from areas well outside of Earth science, and that has to continue if we're going to make progress."


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A Gate Pa man is at the end of his tether after years of unsuccessfully trying to get the Tauranga City Council to clean up his neighbour's property.
Gary Lochhead said he was forced to build a 2.2-metre-high boundary fence to block neighbour Greg Charters' "unpermitted" sheds from encroaching on his property.
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Mr Lochhead couldn't get Mr Charters to take responsibility for the damage, so he sent $1000 of repair bills to the council, which promptly sent them back.
The incident last year is among a long list of complaints made by Mr Lochhead regarding his neighbour's property. Mr Charters' sheds harboured rats, were an "eyesore" and a danger to his family and property, Mr Lochhead said.
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Mr Crosby replied a week later saying council officers had met Mr Charters and negotiated the removal of sheds and motor vehicles from his property.
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Eight months later, Mr Lochhead said nothing had changed and he had a message for Mr Crosby - "enforce your bylaws".
"If he lived here he wouldn't put up with it, no way. Just enforce your bylaws, that's all I'm asking.
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Instead the council was trying to support Mr Charters to clean up the property.
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Council customer and environmental services group manager Peter Frawley said the council first received a complaint about a solid fuel heater in a carport on Mr Charters' property in 2003.
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Since May 2011, the council's senior building officer had visited Mr Charters' property 52 times to ensure progress was being made.
Mr Charters had removed all the vehicle parts and pulled down several unpermitted buildings, although there was still a number of illegal buildings, Mr Frawley said.
Mr Crosby said council officers had found it very difficult to contact Mr Charters as he did not have a phone and was often out.
The Bay of Plenty Times tried twice this week to contact Mr Charters for comment on this story. Both attempts were unsuccessful.


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... trying too hard. I reminded myself to focus on my breath and gazing point so I could cultivate some peace within myself. Only then could I settle back into the flow and find some ease again. It reminds me that trying too hard or being ambitious about the postures means going backwards and, if I can think of it as an hour and a half of breath and meditation, then it is all possible. What is difficult becomes easier and then I ...
The palace of Mysore!
... for our visit inside the Palace. Unfortunately, no photos were allowed inside.
Being recognized as one of the most ornate palaces in India, its interior riot of colors, mosaics and mirrors didn't disappoint me.
But ...
Last Stop Before Chennai
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As it was our last day with RK in the countryside, we took the opportunity to stop the car frequently in order to take photos of paddy fields and workers therein. We also got some nice photos of ox carts loaded with rice straw and sugar cane, both of which are being harvested at the moment. There were several sugar cane processing places, and we stopped at one to watch them at work. The cane is crushed and the juice is then boiled for a while till it ...
The Amazing Race: India Edition
... late 1700's and was famous for fighting against the British during the time of their invasion. He eventually died in battle with all but two of his family members also being slaughtered. Joseph told me that the British took Tipu Sultan's two sons back to Britain as hostages and returned them many years later. The 7th generation of Tipu Sultan now lives in India again but in a much lower class than the luxury Tipu Sultan enjoyed.
On the drive to our next ...
Mysore - Day 4
... Museum to see some old locomotives and carriages, including the maharaja's saloon dating from 1899 plus a toy train which a local school party (one of many seen on the trip) enjoyed a lot.
We returned to the Retreat and had dinner there which cost R100 - 150.
Babu charged R1000 for each day; not bad for �10.
We both liked Mysore; not too big, and attractive with palaces, colonial buildings, arches, roundabouts and gardens.


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Foreign companies may soon be able to use the Indian depository receipt (IDR) route to fund their Indian operations, if the government accepts the recommendations of the MS Sahoo committee, which has suggested sweeping changes in the IDR regulatory framework.
Existing rules require companies to immediately repatriate the proceeds of an IDR issue outside India. That deters a large number of potential issuers, who want to utilise the IDR proceeds within India.
The government-appointed committee, headed by MS Sahoo, secretary of Institute of Company Secretaries of India, has suggested a new regulatory framework and a new instrument, Bharat depository receipts (BhDRs), whose scope will be far beyond IDRs as defined in the Companies Act, 2013. Financial Chronicle has details of the Sahoo panel report, which was submitted to the finance ministry on June 26.
"Proceeds from BhDR issues may be repatriated or used within India and no end use restrictions must be imposed," the committee has suggested. BhDRs will be issued against listed equities or other financial assets including debt securities, while IDRs can be issued only against equity shares.
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Existing norms allow listed Indian companies to invest in shares, rated bonds and fixed income securities issued by overseas listed companies while individuals are permitted to invest up to $1,25,000 in specified foreign securities. Domestic mutual funds are also permitted to invest in shares, rated bonds and fixed income securities of overseas companies listed on a recognised stock exchange or in exchange-traded funds.
The Sahoo panel says foreign firms should be allowed to issue BhDRs against these securities.
Rajesh Narain Gupta, managing partner of SNG & Partners, a leading law firm, said there had been only one IDR issue till date under the existing framework. "This poor response indicates that the governing framework is not in sync with contemporary practices, and therefore there is a need for review. An active IDR market will benefit both Indian investors and the Indian financial system," Gupta said.
The Sahoo committee recommends that BhDRs should be allowed for both capital raising and non-capital raising purposes.
In a capital-raising DR issue, the company issues fresh securities and the fund goes to the issuer, while in a non-capital raising issue, the issuer gets holders of existing securities to deposit those securities with a domestic custodian, and the proceeds from the sale go to the holders of the underlying securities.
Full two-way fungibility should be allowed to the extent of the issue size in case of BhDRs, the panel said. Full two-way fungibility allows an investor to convert DRs into the underlying securities and vice-versa. "This can enable arbitrage and help maintain the law of one price between the DR and its underlying securities," the report said.
The committee says both Indian and foreign investors — retail as well as institutional —should be allowed to invest in BhDRs.
"Participation by foreign issuers in the Indian financial system will bring in the global best practices. Moreover, it will provide greater choice to Indian investors and enable them to diversify their portfolios globally," said Mahesh Singhi, managing director of Singhi Advisors, a boutique investment banking firm.
IDRs to get attractive for MNC fund raising
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1. Introduction: Systems thinking & Systems in Focus
Despite the great work of many insightful open thinkers, OER is, seen from a theoretical perspective, still an ill-defined topic. Though there are several advanced definitions of OER[1], many fundamental questions have not been finally clarified[2]. Things even become messier, when looking at closely related concepts like "Open Educational Practices", "Open Education[3]" and "OER Ecosystems", which are, despite engaged early attempts, still lacking sufficient definitions and explanations[4]. Arguably we are in need of a conceptual framework which helps us understanding the phenomena usually summarized under the term "OER" more comprehensively.
This post assumes that systems theory can provide essential parts of such a wider theory of OER. Systems thinking is a holistic school of thought, which developed in the middle of the 20th century, and which has been successfully applied to many complex academic and practical fields including environmental science, organizational learning and family therapy. Systems thinking can be considered rather an open methodology than a unified theoretic body. Actually many different schools of systems thinking exist, focussing on different kind of problems. Good overviews on the variety of systems approaches recently have been given by Ramage & Ship, 2009 as well as by Baecker, 2016.
One of the first things to do when taking a systems approach is to define the "system in focus", the system which the discussion is all about. Defining a system in focus is not as trivial as it might look like on the first sight. The definition of a system can be very demanding since there usually is not one correct answer but many possible solutions which all make sense from different viewpoints. Making things worse, in the case of OER one system in focus will not be enough to explain the phenomena sufficiently. Rather I assume, that it will be necessary to determine several interacting systems in focus. As we will see, at least four interrelated levels of systems can be identified, around which a wider theory of OER can be expanded[5].
Before stepping deeper in the world of open educational systems, let`s try to define very shortly, what a system is: A system is a whole, which is divided by a border from its environment and made of several interacting parts ("components"). Every component can be seen as a system of its own. Therefore systems arguably appear in hierarchies. When trying to analyse the structure of complex systems, it is usually necessary to analyse at least three different levels: The system in focus, its components and its environment.
2. Hierarchy of systems: Four system levels
As far as I can oversee it, the actual OER discussion uses mainly two concepts to indicate different levels of scope: "OER" and "Open Education". On the one hand, "OER" is used to describe individual resources, like openly licensed textbooks or working sheets. At the same time, the term is also used in a vague sense describing the organizational processes and structures, which are needed for the production and dissemination of the individual resources. "Open Education", on the other hand, describes the wider educational system, the context in which OER are used and produced.
From this duality of key terms one could assume that OER ecosystems are made of two system levels. I believe this to be misleading. Rather it makes sense to me to distinguish between at least four system levels, as can be seen from figure 1:
Figure 1: Four system levels within the field of OER
In the following these four different levels will be briefly described, concentrating on the question, what kind of system they refer to, which components they are made of and which environment they operate in. I will also try to point out which disciplines normally are concerned with each system level as every system level addresses specific discussions in different academic fields.
3. Level 1: Individual resources as manifested conceptual systems
|Kind of System
|Manifested conceptional systems, very odd system type for systems thinker
|Technical container, metadata, structure, content, learning objects, license
|Either technical infrastructure like repositories (a) or learning contexts in which resources are used for learning (b)
|Goal of the system
|To be defined
|Concerned Discipline
|(a) Technicians, librarians, authors, lawyers (b) teachers, experts in media didactics,
On the most basic level it makes sense to perceive individual resources as systems. Examples could be books, working sheets or video lectures. An Individual resource can be seen as a whole (=one file), which is made of several components (e.g. technical container, metadata, structure, content, learning objects, license).
From a technical perspective, one might argue, that the system border of individual resources is determined by its document type (e.g.: .rtf, .doc, .mp4). The environment of the resource includes either technical infrastructure (repositories, interfaces, etc.) or learners and teachers, depending on whether you look at it from a technical or a didactical perspective.
A rather nerdy systems thinkers question is, what kind of system individual resources are. I thought long about this question and came up with the answer, that one could speak of manifested conceptual systems (MCS), since learning resources typically include a mental concept, a special idea in the head of the author, which she or he later on manifested by writing it down and making a file out of it. MCS are neither dynamic living systems nor machines, and therefore do not transform an input into an output. Compared to living systems MCS are actually pretty static and do not change themselves autonomously[7].
Applying systems thinking to this kind of systems might be rather unusual, since systems thinking normally addresses complex living and social systems. Nevertheless I guess that there are special schools of knowledge engineering which use systems aproaches to analyse systems of this level.
4. Level 2: The OER publishing system
|Kind of System
|Socio-technical system
|Authors, quality assurance (Reviewers), readers[8], tools to publish resources, also tools to find, create and modify, disseminate and manage resources.
|Depends on whether an OEPS is part of an educational institution or part of its environment. In both cases, the educational institution and it`s components are important elements of the environment of an OEPS.
|Goal of the system
|Producing open licensed material in order to achieve certain beneficial effects like saving costs, increasing access and/or quality as well as fostering innovation.
|Concerned disciplines
|Publishers, librarians, technicians, knowledge managers, policy maker, business model experts, authors
4.1 Introducing the OER Publishing System (OERPS)
The MCS-level can be used to understand what an individual OER is, but does not help us very much in describing the processes, which have to be organized in order to produce and distribute, discover and use individual resources. When trying to describe how, by whom and why individual resources are generated, one needs to change to another system level in focus, which I call the "OER Publishing System" (OERPS). As its name already tells, the OER publishing system is concerned with publishing OER and related activity.
4.2 Type of system
In contrast to the MSC-level, the OER publishing system is a socio-technical system. This means that it is about humans, which use technology in order to archive certain goals. Human activity and technology together are connected in a co-evolutionary way, which means they constantly evolve while influencing each other. Socio-technical systems are living systems (because they are driven by humans) and therefore are much more complex than systems on the MCS level, described above.
4.3 The OERPS as a process
The OERPS concept is quite abstract and hard to grasp, since it describes a process, which can be organized in different forms depending on what kind of material is produced, for whom and by whom[9]. The organization of this process can even be distributed over several connected institutions which makes it especially difficult to identify it as one coherent system. As will be shown in a following post, the OERPS can be located within an educational institution, as well as outside of it.
4.4 Constitutional Models
The OERPS can be based on at least three different classes of business models:
- Public organization, e.g. production of OER within public funded universities.
- Commercial organization, e.g. creation and publication of material by boundless.
- Civil organization, e.g. publication of material by Wikimedia or serlo.
4.5 Environment
Each class of OERPS has its own type of environment. Common for all types of environment seems to be, that OER based educational institutions (see down 5.) and their elements make up the most important component (s). The (supported) learning process is always the start and end point which should focus all processes underlying an OERPS.
The differences within the types of environment still have to be analyzed in more detail. Some initial ideas might indicate how these differences could look like:
- For a public funded OERPS other parts of the public administration are of special importance. For example the communes, which run the Norwegian Digital Learning Arena (NDLA) are an important part of NDLA`s environment.
- For commercial driven OERPS` the commercial publishing market makes up an important part of their environment. The conventional publishing industry disposes many competences, which it could use to develop and offer OER based services[10]. On the other hand OER publishing is challenging the traditional publishing industry. This special situation has to be kept in mind, when trying to implement commercial OER solutions[11].
- Finally foundations and other OER funders are more important for civil based organizations, than they are for public and commercial driven initiatives.
4.6 Professional Perspectives
At least three professional perspectives are focusing on the OERPS-level:
- The technical perspective, concentrating on the technical architecture of the needed tools and supply chains (networks of infrastructure provider).
- The business model perspective, concentrating on the question who provides which value for whom and who pays for it.
- The didactical perspective, concentrating on questions, how the produced material or the production process itself is used in order to support learning and teaching.
5. Level 3: OER based educational institutions
|Type of System
|(Mezzo level) Social system, currently chaning into socio-technical system
|Learners, teachers, administration, OERPS (optional)
|External OERPS. educational government
|Goal of the system
|Provide students with skills and knowledge
|Concerned Disciplines
|Educational research, sociology, public administration
On the third level we can observe OER based educational institutions, like schools and universities as systems in focus.
5.1 Type of system
Educational institutions can be described as self-organizing mezzo sized social systems with a special educational purpose (e.g. educating people). Institutions or organizations in general, tend to aim at permanent existence and are characterized by a formal and informal structure, as well as by an institutional culture.
Communication plays a crucial part in the emergence of organizations. Organizations can be seen as dancing patterns of communication. Actually it is so important that Niklas Luhmann, the hard to read but some times rewarding German systems thinker, argues that social systems, which institutions are a special part of, exist only of communications. So for Luhmann humans are not a components of an institution, but part of its environment!
5.2 The basic structure of educational institutions
While Luhmanns perspective certainly is a valid way to model social institutions, I do not consider it to be the only possible way. In the following a model of educational institutions will be proposed, which is more old fashioned and sees social systems primarily as groups of people. My main reason for doing so is that the resulting models are more intuitive, also for non-systems thinker and more practical to handle in a management context.
Though educational institutions may differ in multiple ways, there nevertheless are some structural elements, which are quite common and seem to appear in most western type schools and universities, as can be seen in figure 2:
Figure 2: The basic structure of an Educational Institution
5.2.1 The Teaching and Learning System
Actually the basic structure of an educational system looks surprisingly simple. In its center is the (teaching and) learning component/system, which is made of students and teachers. The learning system operates the core processes of an educational system: the teaching and learning[12]. The simplicity of the structure becomes even more surprising, when considering, that it is shared by both, schools and universities.
5.2.2 The administration
The learning system is supported, guided and controlled by an administration, which consists of the management of the educational system as well as of potential central units[13]. The size and complexity of the administration and the learning system can differ quite a lot. Small schools might be run by only one director, who -at the same time- is the only teacher of the school. On the other hand, big universities include multiple faculties and a complex administration, which includes several central units like libraries, IT departments, legal support, marketing and others. Despite the differences in scale the basic functional structure remains the same.
5.3 Making educational institutions open
One interesting question is, if and how the structure of an educational institution changes, when it shifts towards openness. I assume that, at least in the beginning, the basic structure of educational institutions will not necessarily change very much. The main difference will be that an OER Publishing System has to be added to the model, either outside of the OER based educational institution (=in its environment) or inside of it (=as a component). This topic will be described in detail within my next post. At the moment it is important to see, that simply by the use of external or internal produced OER, a conventional educational institutions arguably turns into an OER based educational institution.
Since the term "Open Education" has not been clearly defined yet, I prefer to take a rather cautious terminology speaking of "OER based institutions" instead of "Open Educational Institutions" or similar. At the moment it seems not yet clear, if a conventional educational system automatically becomes an "open educational system", just because it uses OER. It might turn out in the future that "Open Education" is not only characterized by the use of OER, but by the appearance of other open qualities as well, like the freedom to enter an institution independently of required degrees, the freedom to be educated by a multitude of different institutions, the freedom to determine your own learning goals or the freedom to decide on your own when and where to learn.
5.4 Environment
One important part of the environment of educational institutions is the governance system. Within many countries, formal education systems are controlled by a multi-level governance system which often is made up of different levels of governance (e.g. communal, regional, national), making efficient control quite difficult. The governance system is responsible for
- financing the operation of the educational system,
- setting strategic goals
- shaping framing conditions like legal regulation.
It also seems to be quite common, that it
- determines the concrete goals of the learning system by setting the curriculum.
5.5 Professional perspectives
The institutional level is especially relevant for various kinds of management activities. Educational managers and planners, organisational developers and change managers will deal a lot with the institutional level. Systems thinking approaches are specialized in dealing with this kind of problems and can contribute much.
6. Level 4: OER eco-systems
|Kind of System
|Large scale socio techical systems (LSSTS)
|OER based educational institutions, educational governance systems, OERPS, other institutions
|Wider society, e.g. legals system, economic system, political system, religious system,
|Goal of the system
|To be defined
|Concerned Disciplin
|Sociology, systems thinking, national economy,
OER ecosystems, describe on the fourth level the biggest scoped systems. Systems of this scale have been described as "Large Scale Socio Technical Systems (LSSTS)", which gives a hint of the size of these systems.
I do have an ambivalent opinion towards the term "OER ecosystem". On the one hand it seems to describe what in systems thinking is simply named a "system". From this perspective, it is kind of unnecessary. On the other hand the term is more vivid and provides a tangible metaphor, which I guess fits quite well with the educational context.
The term can be used in singular ("OER ecosystem") as well as in plural ("OER ecosystems"). Speaking of "OER ecosystems" illustrates, that there are many different forms of OER ecosystems, each addressing different "ecological niches". In many cases, an OER ecosystem will consist of a number of OER based educational institutions, an internal or external OERPS as well as an educational governance system.
In contrast to this, speaking of "the OER ecosystem" (in singular) can be used to describe the sum of all existing ecosystems. This might make sense, e.g. when trying to distinguish the open educational approaches in general from conventional educational activity.
7. Bottom line
Systems thinking turns out to be a useful tool to model OER publishing and OER ecosystems.
One can differentiate four different levels of systems
- The individual resource ("Manifested conceptional systems")
- The OER publishing system
- OER based educational institutions.
- OER ecosystems or OER based (open) educational systems
The structure of educational systems is surprisingly simple, being made of the learning system (teaching and learning), an administration and an external governance system. Of special importance is the introduced concept of an OER publishing system (OERPS). To understand OER more comprehensively, it is helpful to look at how the OER publishing system relates to OER based educational systems. This will be examined in the following post.
[1] Most common are the definitions by UNESCO (UNESCO, 2012) and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
[2] For example it is still hard to find an answer to the question, what makes a resource an educational one. Orr et al argue that every resource, which is used within a specific learning arrangement as an educational resource is an educational one. (Orr et al 2016, p. 18). While this might be a pragmatic approach, which is sufficient from a policy perspective it is hardly sufficient for operational tasks like library cataloguing, because in many cases it will be impossible to find out, if a resource has been used within specific learning arrangements or not. Potentially every ressource can be used for teaching and learning.
[3] As far as the term "Open Education" is concerned a good summary of the actual discussion can be found at Orr, et al, 2016, page 20f.
[4] This certainly is not the fault of anybody. Social or scientific innovations are by definition ill-defined topics, since reflection can only follow the development. As soon as a phenomenon is well understood and described, it is not innovative any longer.
[5] An interesting classical reading in this context is Boulding, 1956.
[6] Miller, 19, Boulding, 1956
[7] It is true that OER does its very best to change this aspect. Nevertheless, even if OER succeeds, MCS will still rather be changed than change out of themselves.
[8] I`m not yet sure if readers should be seen as a part of the OEPS or as part of it`s environment.
[9] The OER Cube provides an aggregated view on different types of OER generation.
[10] Until today, this is a rather theoretical option. Most publishers are considering OER as a thread and do not accept the challenge of defining business models for OER publishing. Ignoring the shift towards openness bears the risk that new competitors will take care of this business opportunity, like Amazon Inspire recently did.
[11] Actually it is quite interesting to see that many OERPS seem to be located at the intersection between the public funded educational system and the commercial driven publishing system.
[12] In the viable system model from Stafford Beer, the learning system is the system 1.
[13] Another way of modelling would be to include the central units as a component of ist own. For the sake of simplicity I did not do so. A more detailed systems map on higher education institutions can be found here.
[14] The classical use of the term refers to the OU movement and means that someone can access higher education without a degree. The term has to be redefined in the future.
Baecker, Dirk (Ed.) (2016): "Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie", Wiesbaden
Banathy, Bela H. (1991): "Systems Design of Education: A Journey to Create the Future", New Jersey
Boulding, Kenneth E. (1956): "General systems theory: The skeleton of science" in Management Science, 2: 197-208, online available under: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/Boulding.pdf (31.07.2016)
Orr, Dominic; Rimini, Michele; van Damme, Dirk, (2016): "Open Educational Resources: A catalyst for innovation", online available under http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/open-educational-resources_9789264247543-en (18.08.2016)
Ramage, Magnus & Shipp, Karen (Ed) (2009): "Systems Thinkers", Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York
UNESCO (2012), "2012 Paris OER Declaration", online available under http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/English_Paris_OER_Declaration.pdf (18.08.2016)


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The Wallabies are in Paris preparing for what will be one of the most important Spring Tours an Australian team has undertaken for some time.
Following a season 'down under' when they had a record number of injuries and some ordinary results at times, it's now time for the men in gold to draw a line in the sand and look ahead to one of the biggest years they will ever be part of.
The upcoming Tests against France, England, Italy and Wales should be viewed as a warm up for next year's series against the British and Irish Lions and the Rugby Championship.
It's a golden opportunity for those so called fringe players who got their chance this year when others around them were hit with the injury curse, to consolidate their positions in the squad.
Take Michael Hooper for starters. Did anyone really think that he'd have such a sensational start to his international career? When David Pocock was ruled out of the Rugby Championship Hooper got his chance and he took it with both hands. Pocock now has to force his way back.
Scrumhalf Nick Phipps isn't threatening Will Genia as Australia's top number 9, but I've seen some good progress in his performances since he first filled in for the injured Genia. Others who have stepped up include Sitaleki Timani, Kane Douglas, Dave Dennis, Nick Cummins, Mike Harris, and Ben Tapuai.
The win over the Pumas in Rosario and then the draw with the All Blacks should have given this touring squad plenty of confidence, and things look much brighter now with Pocock, Stephen Moore, Wycliff Palu, Sekope Kepu and Drew Mitchell on tour.
The added experience will be a blessing after such a long and tough season. It's so important that the Wallabies aren't intimidated by some good teams they'll confront away from home. Winning the collision is a must and the backline has to be ignited. The spotlight is on Kurtley Beale.
I just hope that the French, English and Welsh engage in playing running rugby so we get the chance to see if this Wallaby squad can re-discover the art of scoring multiple tries.
They start the tour as the No.2 ranked team in the world and it's imperative that they stay in the top four.
The Rugby World Cup 2015 draw will be conducted a couple of days after the tour and teams outside the top four will get a much tougher draw. You don't want to find yourself in the same pool as New Zealand.
I must admit that I'm not as worried as I was a month ago and I think Australia can have a successful tour based on recent performances. While they're trying to break a two game losing streak against England, the stats are much better compared to the other three teams.
The Wallabies have never lost to Italy. They've won the last three against Wales in Cardiff and the last eight overall, including the three tests in Australia in June.
They also have an impressive record against France winning the past five, eight of the last 10 and 14 of the previous 17 encounters.
Nathan Sharpe's men hope to equal their record of six consecutive wins over France. They set the old mark between 1993 and 2000.
While Australia's stocks have been boosted by some timely returns from injury, the French will be without inspirational Captain and 2011 IRB Player of the Year Thierry Dusautoir.
New Coach Philippe Saint-Andre has named a new look squad, so it'll be interesting to see if they can repay his confidence in them. Pascal Pape will captain the side and while there are some familiar French names in the squad, it's not the team that ran on in last year's World Cup Final.
It's been seven long years since France has beaten Australia and I reckon they might have to wait at least one more year.
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What first attracted me to this book is its coverage of several languages that I know little or nothing about. For reasons mostly due to chance, I've been exposed to only a handful of well-known programming languages, during my professional career. Recently, I've been quite intrigued by Erlang's concurrency model and robustness even though there is no place for it in my day-day tasks. Having the opportunity to read about Erlang being evaluated against other languages was just what I wanted. So, I took the red pill and found out just how deep the rabbit hole goes."Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" covers Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure and Haskell. These languages were chosen as of the result of a survey. When the data was tallied, 8 potential candidates remained. Given that there are so many languages around I'm quite surprised that the initial list was so small. That speaks a lot of the languages that ended up in the book.First off, I like this book a lot. It starts off with a brief, one-paragraph introduction on each of the languages. There's just enough information here to let you know what to expect in each of the chapters. This book follows a pragmatic consistency from beginning to end.The structure of each chapter is logical and concise which makes it easy for the reader to compare and contrast elements of each language. I also like the history and language development sections as well as interviews with the language developers. Each chapter concludes with a nice "Wrap Up" segment which summarizes key areas of each language, such as performance, mutability, weaknesses, strengths, readability, etc. In fact, the final chapter is a "Wrap Up" of the whole book. I don't know of a better way to conclude this book.The size of the book is a modest 317 pages, but it delivers a plentiful and concise overview into each of the seven languages. The book is just the right size to catch the reader's interest, introduce them to language basics features and fun, without overwhelming them.I couldn't help but wonder if there would be a follow-on title comparing and contrasting another group of languages. And if so, which languages would they be? The introduction concludes with the following statement:"When you're through, you will not be an expert in any of these languages, but you will know what each uniquely has to offer"I agree.I can't say enough good things about this book. If you've worked with many languages in this book, you probably won't be as interested in this book as I am. However, if you've had a career like mine which hasn't exposed you to more than a few languages, this book is a must-have for your collection. It may even inspire me to delve into another language, after I get my head around Erlang and FP concepts.
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