Hi Valerie, You have raised some pertinent issues here.
The goals of WE are pretty straight foward and clear. Acheving the necesaty OERs can only be acheived through collaboration authoring. There are very few nodes on WE however that, in my view, meet the end results we all target as the possible use for all these OERs, e.g wikieducator.org/chemistry an excellent node in own right. Most of these excellent peices have however been adaptations of previously existing materials and then others have started adding on. This is not a bad idea at all - after all, there is nothing new under the sun. Low "intisified" collaboration is perhaps so at this stage because of the rather "new" nature of the project/community. Sometimes, i am of the view that there are many willing volunteers with little clue as to where to go/what to work on. With the development of the OERF, hopefully, we will have a much better cordination of volunteer efforts with good "quasi-delegation" of tasks to volunteers. One area/strategy/tactic i find useful in ensuring collaboration is to encourage it right from the training phase - L4C both online and F2F. I encourage my participants to always work in mutual-interest groups, first brainstorm on the contents they can possibly work on together (possibly a root topic e.g Digestion), allocate chapters/sections among themselves, and then just go ahead and "do-the-do" <smile>. I have seen many great outputs through this mechanism especially in cases where i had participants from different schools working on the mutual-interest topics. This has worked very well for me in F2F sessions, i am not very sure how this has panned in some online sessions. If there are dedicated participants online with good pre- knowledge about social/online interactions, and good/adequate access to the net, this works for me. I greatly look foward to strategies we can all come up with to promote further collaborative contect development in this community. Regards, Victor. On Oct 27, 4:19 pm, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any interest in developing OERs using the Wikipedia model? > Although someone starts a page, there is always an implicit open > invitation to add and update. I'd start with middle school science and > math activities but I'm open to suggestions. > > It seems that most WE contributors - myself included, haven't been > working this way. Partly because there isn't anything that is > explicitly designated for this wide community collaboration. Partly > because most contributors are working on personal teaching resources. > > To me, the Wikipedia model is about creating open learning resources. > I would really like to get some collaborative content development > going that extends beyond the needs of an individual teacher, or > school. > > We are seeing expanding participation as learners in FOC08, CCK09, > L4C, M4T which is great. Now let's get that going in the development > side. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
