It’s still early days on the OCTEL project, but we are starting to assemble a team and build some momentum.

If you haven’t already done so, and you’re interested in the kind of course OCTEL may become, please complete our questionnaire to tell us what would make it a useful learning experience for you. And if you have a creative disposition please enter our competition to make a visual representation of technology-enhanced learning.

OCTEL is being run by a small core team (no full-time staff) and a support network of advisors, volunteers and kind helpers:

• Maren Deepwell and John Slater (project direction on behalf of ALT)
• David Jennings (project manager, DJ Alchemi Ltd)
• Anna Davidge (web and admin support, ALT)
• Rachel Harris (evaluation, Inspire Research Ltd)
• Martin Hawksey (learner discussion management, JISC CETIS)
• Linda Creanor (advisor, Glasgow Caledonian University)
• Shirley Evans (advisor, JISC TechDis)
• Peter Hartley (advisor, University of Bradford)
• Terry McAndrew (advisor, JISC TechDis)
• Phil Tubman (advisor, University of Lancaster)
• Nicola Whitton (advisor, Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Clive Young  (advisor, UCL)

Update, November 2012: we’re very pleased to announce that Stephen Downes has agreed to join the extended team as a ‘critical friend’ to the project. In case you’re not marinated in recent learning technology developments, Stephen is one of a handful of pioneers of the early Massive Open Online Courses, and continues to work prolifically charting the possibilities of the approach.

Openness is one of OCTEL’s foundation concepts, and we will try and experiment with practical ways of achieving this in our methods as well as what we deliver.

Have you got any tips or suggestions for open project management?