Way to go Peter! The collective impact of small corrections multiplied across +20,000 Wikieducators adds up to a sizable workforce which can provide free learning opportunities for all students worldwide!
I too am keen to rid the world of the shackles of learning management systems!. Sadly, many educators working in the formal education space do not have the freedom to use the technologies of their choice. To be fair to our organisations -- the management of student administration is easier and more cost effective when combined under one roof. Also, some learners prefer the "privacy" of cohort-based learning groups within the LMS and in some subject disciplines - -eg Nursing, confidentiality issues may arise. At the OER Foundation and WikiEducator -- we try to support all worlds. Jim Tittsler (our lead software engineer) has implemented a few clever solutions which enable educators the best of both worlds! You can read more about our Remix experiments <http://wikieducator.org/OERF:WikiEducator_remix_experiments> and a few instructions <http://wikieducator.org/Help:Links> on how to do this. In short teachers who are "forced" to use a LMS -- can still develop OER in the wiki and easily integrate this into the local LMS. A little interesting research data. During the Open Content Licensing for Educators course we gave learners the option of a more structured learning sequence in a LMS or a more open and flexible wiki alternative. We asked learners for their opinion: What was your preferred technology for accessing OCL4ED course materials? - Learning management system (Moodle site): 31% - WikiEducator: 20% - Both: 46% Interesting results for preferred delivery technology with this group. Clearly providing more options satisfies more learners and we can do this cost effectively with OER developed and hosted on a wiki platform. Cheers Wayne On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Peter Wilkins <drpdwilk...@gmail.com>wrote: > I corrected a grammatical mistake! Baby steps. In any event, I'm interested > in anything that makes WikiEducator an alternative to course management > software such as Blackboard. > > Thanks, > Peter > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Alison Snieckus <alison.sniec...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Peter, > Thanks for checking it out. Note that the editors at wikiversity did most > of the hard work on this page (which is duly noted in the acknowledgements). > > > I'm hoping to adapt their page to provide a description of the concepts and > corresponding wikitext that's easier to understand and put into practice. > We'll see how that goes. > > Feel free to make substantive improvements or to suggest ideas on the talk > page. > > Alison > User:ASnieckus <http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus> > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Peter Wilkins < <drpdwilk...@gmail.com> > drpdwilk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The quiz material is great. >> >> Peter >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Alison Snieckus <<alison.sniec...@gmail.com> >> alison.sniec...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, virtualMV < >> <mverha...@gmail.com><mverha...@gmail.com> >> mverha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> It is interesting to note that you are comfortable with sending me an >>> email to modify the page, rather than actually hacking the wiki. This >>> is one issue I think we all struggle with when using wikis - >>> encouraging others to actually make changes. I know it is true for my >>> students working with the wiki and I suspect for many using wiki- >>> educator as well. Please feel free to modify the page :) >>> >>> Sometimes I think the most successful content developed in the wiki is >>> set up as a complete project (e.g. Learning for Content and Open >>> Content Licensing for Educators - which are very well developed >>> courses), but interestingly they usually only require minor tweeks >>> after they have been set up. Those that are started with the hope that >>> the community will continue to develop often remain incomplete. >>> >> >> Hi Michael, >> >> I too struggle with the collaboration aspect of work on WikiEducator. I >> agree that it's easier to work collaboratively when the content is part of >> project with clear goals and schedules. >> >> As an aside, I'm not so sure I'd agree that the two projects that you >> mention (Learning4Content and Open Content Licensing for Educators) are as >> complete as you suggest. As I have helped with both of these, I do think >> there are aspects that need further work: >> >> - WE rich text editor >> tutorials<http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_rich_text_editor_tutorials>-- >> I think there is more here that we could do on consistency of format and >> language; as well as completing the later sections >> - Project plan for Open Content Licensing >> project<http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Project_plan>- In >> looking through the project plan, I think there are still areas that >> need work, e.g., we still need to do the language edit for the second >> module, there may be improvements that could be made to the layout and >> design of all three modules, and the last module is yet to be developed. >> >> But by example, I am further agreeing with you. During the time when the >> project was active and we had deadlines to meet, it was easier to >> collaborate. >> >> I believe it would be a more satisfying experience, generally, if there >> was more ongoing collaboration on content, collaboration that takes into >> account the on-again, off-again nature of wikieducators' participation (at >> least that's the case with my WE work). >> >> One option might be to more often invite others to help with something we >> are working on. So here goes: >> >> I started a new page this morning: >> Help:Quiz<http://wikieducator.org/Help:Quiz>, >> as it seemed to me WE didn't have any direct help for how to add a quiz to a >> page. I noted that wikiversity had a pretty detailed page, but thought there >> were ways WE could improve it and make it useful for wikieducators (who, in >> my opinion, tend to be less technically oriented than the average wikipedia >> editor--I'm unfamiliar with the content developers on wikiversity). >> >> I copied the text from wikiversity to the WE Help:Quiz page, added an >> acknowledgement that portions of the page are an adaptation of Help:Quiz on >> wikiverisity and started revising. >> >> Anyone interested, please jump in. If you have an idea for improvement, >> please try it out on the page. If you'd like to discuss first, post a new >> thread on the talk page <http://wikieducator.org/Help_talk:Quiz>. >> >> If you have a project that you'd like others to join with you on, post it >> to the group. Let's start collaborating more. >> >> Hope to see you in the wiki, >> Alison >> User:ASnieckus <http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >> To visit wikieducator: >> <http://www.wikieducator.org><http://www.wikieducator.org> >> http://www.wikieducator.org >> To visit the discussion forum: >> <http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator><http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator> >> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >> To post to this group, send email to >> <wikieducator@googlegroups.com><wikieducator@googlegroups.com> >> wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> <wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com><wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >> To visit wikieducator: <http://www.wikieducator.org> >> http://www.wikieducator.org >> To visit the discussion forum: >> <http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator> >> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >> To post to this group, send email to <wikieducator@googlegroups.com> >> wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> <wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: <http://www.wikieducator.org> > http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: > <http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator> > http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to <wikieducator@googlegroups.com> > wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > <wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > -- > 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 > -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. 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