Ben, Glad to *hear* your thinking out loud on the topic of community-wide workgroups. My thoughts following your comments:
Any prescriptive guidelines or rules that > are established from the start of an idea (i.e., OER content or > community-wide content) must facilitate this process and not bog it > down. Particularly for community-wide content, we must find that fine > line between facilitating and bogging down the process of idea > development, which is an issue being discussed in WE. I can't agree more. I added this point as a specific requirement of the guidelines produced in the draft charter for Workgroup: WikiEducator Workgroups. Just thinking out loud here (sort of), what would happen if there were > no guidelines (excluding the general rules and values set up by WE) to > community-wide content. Would more experts and newbies contributed as > a result? What would this process look like? This is an important consideration. Whatever we do has to be better (more effective without negative side effects?) than doing nothing, that is, allowing the inherent self-organizing process to attend to community-wide concerns (the reasoning on this might be that if they are truly concerns, someone (or many) will surely attend to the needs). > Is there a single > process that could be followed that could apply to both OER content > and community-wide content development? > I hadn't really thought about this option. We've been pursuing the creation of guidelines for the creation of work groups to attend to community-wide policy, guidelines, tools, processes, etc. My thinking (at least at the moment) is that OER content is best pursued according to self-organizing principles. hmmm. > > If we did establish guidelines to community-wide content development, > would one set of guidelines apply to all types of community-wide > content? We need to think this through. > Will the individuals that establish these guidelines be the > only individuals that participate in the community-wide content > initiatives? I´m still trying to get my head around this notion. I certainly hope not! The guidelines should include mechanisms to encourage participation from both experienced and new members and maybe also consider ways to encourage members to join established community-wide workgroups. Ben, please stop by to check out and comment on the work we are doing on the proposed guidelines for community-wide Workgroups. We have implemented a charter (one of the steps you proposed for inclusion in the guidelines) for our group so we can experience it first hand. Your contribution to the discussion thus far has been invaluable. And anyone else interested in contributing to the process/discussion, please drop on by: http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups Warm regards, Alison http://www.wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus The discussion above relates to Wayne's earlier post describing a proposed distinction -- > I think we should distinguish between two major categories of > content: > - OER content developed by individuals or collaborations between > educators. As long as this content aligns with the filters of the > core > values stated on our home page, I think folk should have the > freedom to > develop this content. This does not necessarily imply a consensus > opinion by > the community -- unlike Wikipedia, we are not developing > "objective" > encyclopedia content and I think we should encourage a diversity > of > pedagogical approaches. > - Community wide content, like policies and guidelines. As > suggested > above -- I think that we should strive for community consensus on > this > category of content including guidelines of how we should manage > the > consensus process. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
