On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Valerie Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > How to generate the best collaborative environment to provide > educators with effective access and adaption of resources across a > broad spectrum of curriculum areas and age-appropriate activities? Oh, > yes - it must allow for casual contributions without the need for > labor intensive moderation and editing and dispute resolution. > > "Everyone" talks about OERs - collaboration, adoption. adaption but > there isn't really as much activity as there "ought" to be given the > interest, time and money that have gone into discussion these > education revolutionizing ideas. > > This is something that has been needed for many years and still hasn't > materialized. Perhaps the Replacing Textbooks program can address some > of the functionality. A wiki-based solution could work. Although > people are willing to contribute and collaborate, there is a > reluctance to change the work of others without some explicit > "authority" to do so. This has been a frustration with WikiEducator - > even with notations that collaboration is invited, there are no > contributions. There is a frustration with Wikipedia contributions > that are promptly removed by the "editor". > > Perhaps there is some middle ground. The idea of comments on a blog > post works out pretty well. The commenter augments the information in > the post, without modifying the original text. In the Sugar Labs wiki, > there are entries for all the Activities which could serve as the > basis for the collaborative framework. How about a forms/template > based contribution function that will add sections to a wiki entry? > For example, I came up with a sixth grade math activity based on > Turtle Art and I would like to share it. It would be nice to add this > to an inventory of middle school math activities connected to Turtle > Art. Others could then find my activity and others based on a search > for "middle school," "math" and/or "Activity:Turtle Art."
I would love to see what you have been doing. I assume you have seen Tony Forster's blog and the pages we have made in the wiki regarding different TA projects around STEM? regards. -walter > > Just thinking... Would something like this overcome potential > contributors' resistance and get the ball rolling? ;o) Other ideas? > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
