Talk:Education Committee Charter

Scope and remit

I was wondering about all this.

As presented, the scope says "education", which is not so surprising. There is education as practised in educational institutions, and that is one aspect that is implied here: an interface with the "education sector". To take an example that is close to hand, the interface of Wikimedia and the "cultural sector" has attracted the acronym GLAM, and that is read in terms of institutions and those who work in them.

That would not be all of it, though. The WMUK current work on "educational projects" surely also covers training efforts; and the VLE. I would say it also ought to cover "open educational resources" (OER), which is the expected jargon in this area. Aim 1 talks about free educational resources and their provision; which will do for a start, I suppose, OER being a slippery concept.

Perhaps I would be helped by some indication of what the delegated powers are likely to be. I'm not quarrelling with the stated aims as such.

Charles Matthews (talk) 07:17, 29 October 2012 (UTC)