Updated Visions of Commons. 2016-09-20

• Commons Project. Status of the Art

Pre-emptive expectations,Refinements of quest

CommonS: Pre-emptive expectations

• What we were expecting from this project?– Learn and use the art of reusing OER– Learn and apply theories and methods to exploit

how “community of practice” can works for learning

– Lear and apply how the traditional flow of teaching / learning could be reversed / flipped

– Learn and apply how to adapt the role of mentors in the cyber-social age (and

CommonS: Updated expectations

• What we are expecting now?• This is perhaps different for everyone of us. • It depends on how much each of us keep on

exploring / struggling with literature, innovation, technology literacy

CommonS: Implemenation and Refinements

• How the project implementation up today changed our expectations, and what is the rationale for updating our goals?– we, at Sapienza team (let me speak now also for Giuseppe,

Marco, Stefania; if I am a bad interpreter they will correct me), we believe that• We can use the platform in its refined, last version for our educational

activities• We can convince and gather other professors / mentors / tutors to

operate with CommonSpaces• We are closer to reach an interesting point of “sustainability” of our

community• We can reach a ready to market point in one/two years

CommonS: Implemenation and Refinements

• How the project implementation up today changed our expectations, and what is the rationale for updating our goals?– what are your convincement about the xCommonS system?

• Do you think the platform, once it will be refined, could be useful for some of your educational activities?

• If so, what kind of usage do you plan to do with it? • Do you also think we are closer to reach a point of “sustainability”

for our community?• How long we have to work yet to reach a “ready to market”

service, something able to be sustainable?

CommonS: Tangible goals

• We expect to have a “system”, not only a platform, made up of ideas, software tools, models of practices and communities– We expect to have a refinements of the “system”– We’d like to reach tangible goals, like being able to

use the CommonS ecosystem in our daily activity – Like being able to cooperate and federate with

other, bigger, groups and communities that we discovered through our activity in CommonS

CommonS: reasonable, sensible, dreams

• We expect to better define the core business of the “CommonS echo-system”. How?– We expect to define what makes “us” a team eligible to

sustain xCommonS “system” in the next 3-5 years– We’d like to reach medium terms goals, like being able to play

as actors in the starting market of interoperable credits assessments”

– Like being able to sell through CommonSpaces or beside CommonSpaces and ecosystem, but in a much larger scale our competencies in a way that the project could find its sustainability (like we have bee saying so many times now)

CommonS: reasonable, sensible, dreams

• We expect to better define the core business of the “CommonS echo-system”. How?– We’d like to reach medium terms goals, like being

able to play as actors in the starting market of “interoperable credits assessments”

– What’s that? Are you fooling us? Or what?

CommonS: reasonable, sensible, dreams

• We expect to better define the core business of the “CommonS echo-system”. How?– Like being able to sell through CommonSpaces or

beside CommonSpaces and ecosystem, but in a much larger scale, our competencies in a way that the project could find its sustainability (like we have been saying so many times now)

CommonS: present and future new resources to reach

these goals

• We need more resources (funding, braines,structures) to reach a better definition of the services we want to provide. How?– We have been talking with you in March, here, of

the opportunity to participate to an Horizon ICT-22 call, with a project named Up2U

CommonS: present and future new resources to

reach these objectives • We need more resources (funding,

braines,structures) to reach a better definition of the services we want to provide. How?– Late in July we have been notified that the Up2U

project has been selected and funded with 5M Eu

CommonS: present and future’s new resources to reach

these objectives • We need more resources (funding,

braines,structures) to reach a better definition of the services we want to provide. How?– Ideas founding the Up2U proposal are mostly the same

that inspired CommonS project proposal– We feel like we can upscale our goals in a larger

European environments:– Partners in Up2U are (between others): GEANT, GARR,

CERN, Open University, University of Vigo […]

CommonS: present and future’s new resources to

reach these objectives

• We need more resources (funding, braines,structures) to reach a better definition of the services we want to provide. How?– Ideas founding the Up2U proposal are mostly the same

that inspired CommonS project proposal– We feel like we can upscale our goals in a larger

European environments:– Partners in Up2U are (between others): GEANT, GARR,

CERN, Open University, University of Vigo […]

CommonS: present and future’s new resources to

reach these objectives • We need more resources (funding, brains,

structures) to reach a better definition of the services we want to provide. How?– What kind of synergy could be found between

CommonS and Up2U? [this item will be depth in later this night]

CommonS: present and future’s new resources to reach these objectives

• We need more resources (funding, braines,structures) to reach a better definition of the services we want to provide. How?– What kind of proposal could we elaborate for the

next Erasmus+ deadline? [this item will also be depth in later this night]

– We have some draft ideas, they can be transformed into a draft proposal within November and each one should express propension to participate

CommonS: future’s new resources from new project’s

ideas advancements• If we want to participate in a new partnership, we

need to make clearly emerge objectives of each one of us in terms of real determination to advance our organization in the direction drafted by the new project proposal. How?– What kind of advancements your organization could

be really interested in? [this item will also be depth in later this night]

– How can we work the next 12 months to let emerge this willing and this real engagement from our organization? [this item will also be depth in later this night]

CommonS System at work for Sapienza