On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 19:52 -0500, Maria Droujkova wrote: > In the spirit of refinement, where would "learners as co-creators of > content" fit? At a first glance, it seems to belong in the > co-production models, but maybe it's a separate dimension altogether. > possibilities: > producer-consumer-learner vs. co-production-learning vs. co-production > together with learners, as an integral part of the learning process.
Hi Maria --- that's a very good question. In WikiEducator, two examples come to mind where learners are actively engaged in co-producing learning materials. Apology for the long-winded response -- but this is a fascinating discussion. 1) Biology in elementary schools is a project at St Michael's College where student teachers produce OER lessons (http://www.wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools) and are graded on their work as part of the course; 2) Ruth Lawson, a lecturer at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand is developing learning activities on WikiEducator based on her OER text on the Anatomy and Physiology of Animals on Wikibooks (see: http://www.wikieducator.org/The_Anatomy_and_Physiology_of_Animals). Ruth reports that students assist in refening and improving the activities on WikiEducator. So one classification option under the co-production model could be based on two points of a continuum: a) OERs produced solely by learners, and b) OER produced solely by teachers The middle ground of this continuum would represent OER co-produced by teachers and learners. Thinking out loud here -- do we need a discrete category for learner generated OER? Or does the co-production model subsume the continuum of learner engagement as co-producers. Another interesting angle in the co-production model is the idea that learners become teachers, and teachers become learners. I think there is wisdom in the old adage that if you want to learn something --- teach it. Also teachers (or subject matter experts) developing content in the wiki become learners in the sense that through collaboration they are exposed to experiential learning with reference to learning design, multimedia design and visual design. mmmm --- clearly our typology and our evolving classification framework needs some refinement :-). Thanks for your reflections. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
