Hi Bee, Responses in text below.
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 16:42 -0200, Barbara Dieu wrote: > I was attracted though by the apparent facility of > combining different contributed bits and pieces to create your own, > something which seems to be more difficult in the wiki, where you > create all from scratch and it remains (in my limited view) a bit > static. Technically the collection feature in WikiEducator enables users to reuse existing collections and/or recreate customised collections. Also, I think that there are considerable opportunities for us to improve reusability through design. For example, identifying the educational elements with a high probability for customisation (eg activities) as discrete objects in the materials, for instance pedagogical templates or individual subsections. In this way we can reduce the time and effort required for reuse and customisation. With this model -- different teachers can then easily build customised collections for their teaching. I do agree that we will need to refine the user interface for making it easier to build customised collections in WE. This is something I'd be keen for us to focus on in the new year. So any thoughts on how we can improve the ability to customise and reuse resources is most welcome. We can build these recommendations into the technical development specifications. If all goes well -- we should be able to raise the funding necessary for these refinements :-). > >WikiEducator is founded on the wiki-model of peer collaboration > whereas Connexions' processes are more akin to the "producer-consumer" > model of OER content development. Both approaches have their > respective advantages and disadvantages. > > Why do you mean by peer as opposed to producer-consumer and what would > be the advantages and disadvantages of each, as you see it? Towards the end of 2007, Ken Udas from the World Campus at PSU, Chris Geith from MSU Global and myself had a bash at distinguishing these approaches: http://www.wikieducator.org/Internationalising_online_programs/OER_producer-consumer_and_co-production_models I think the table attempting to compare these approaches needs some refinement and improvement ;-) -- but is nonetheless is a starting point to think about these differences. I think that the mass-collaboration approach which underpins peer-production models has greater potential for leveraging the benefits of self-organising OER systems (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization ) -- What's interesting about self-organising systems is the fact that its difficult to predict future benefits -- they emerge over time. Also, self-organising systems are also more responsive and can adapt more easily to changing needs. I also have a strong sense that the emerging approaches will be more aligned with the principles of mass-customisation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_customization ) as opposed to the more traditional model of mass-standardisation we have become accustomed to in the classical academic publishing model. In reality -- its still very early days in the world of mass collaboration and peer-production OER models in education. There is still lots that we need to learn. That's what I find so exciting with projects like WikiEducator -- we're making the future happen! Cheers Wayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
