Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-15 Thread mokurai
On Sat, May 14, 2011 12:08 pm, Valerie Taylor wrote: I'm becoming more convinced that the solution is a robust index / retrieval system. Provide the big picture - what OERs are currently available, how they map to the Replacing Textbooks vision of curriculum for all, what is missing, where

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-15 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 13, 2011 3:31 am, Teemu Leinonen wrote: On 12.5.2011, at 18.09, Valerie Taylor wrote: A wiki-based solution could work. We are hosting an experimental wiki-like solution for primary and secondary school teachers for finding, authoring and sharing OERs. The are close to 20 000

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-14 Thread Valerie Taylor
I'm becoming more convinced that the solution is a robust index / retrieval system. Provide the big picture - what OERs are currently available, how they map to the Replacing Textbooks vision of curriculum for all, what is missing, where there are works in progress and the status. This needs to be

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-13 Thread Teemu Leinonen
On 12.5.2011, at 18.09, Valerie Taylor wrote: A wiki-based solution could work. We are hosting an experimental wiki-like solution for primary and secondary school teachers for finding, authoring and sharing OERs. The are close to 20 000 educators from 65 countries working in 48 languages

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-13 Thread Valerie Taylor
YOU are systematic. It is the rest of us who need help. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: I think there is merit in having a public repository like the Sugar Labs wiki to

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-13 Thread forster
Valerie Thanks for the helpful comments. A problem of educational resources developed by an open source community is that people have 'scratched their own itch' and there are lots of disconnected education resources but little overall structure. This is not a criticism of the community,

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-13 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 13, 2011 7:07 am, Valerie Taylor wrote: YOU are systematic. It is the rest of us who need help. It isn't just that. We are talking about producing several hundred subject-matter OERs for all subjects at all levels, plus local content in history, literature, health, agriculture and so

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-13 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 13, 2011 9:33 pm, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Valerie Thanks for the helpful comments. A problem of educational resources developed by an open source community is that people have 'scratched their own itch' and there are lots of disconnected education resources but little

[IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-12 Thread Valerie Taylor
How to generate the best collaborative environment to provide educators with effective access and adaption of resources across a broad spectrum of curriculum areas and age-appropriate activities? Oh, yes - it must allow for casual contributions without the need for labor intensive moderation and

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-12 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: How to generate the best collaborative environment to provide educators with effective access and adaption of resources across a broad spectrum of curriculum areas and age-appropriate activities? Oh, yes - it must allow

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-12 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, it was Tony's blog that got me thinking about how to make the wiki entries more additive with templates/forms (rather than wiki-style edit everything). His blog entry would be great as a section or page or link