The document discusses updates and refinements to the Commons Project. It begins by recapping initial expectations of learning about open educational resources, community of practice models, and flipped teaching approaches. Updated expectations depend on each person's exploration of literature and technology. Implementation of the project platform has changed expectations and goals, with a belief that the refined system can be used for educational activities, other professors can be involved, and sustainability achieved within a few years. New resources like the Horizon-funded Up2U project provide opportunities to further goals through European partnerships. Future progress requires defining services and emerging objectives and engagement over the next year.

1. Updated Visions of
Commons. 2016-09-20
• Commons Project. Status of the Art
Pre-emptive expectations,
Refinements of quest

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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?

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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?

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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 […]

14. 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 […]

15. 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]

16. 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

17. 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]

21. CommonS System at work for Sapienza