http://www.hudong.com/ is a wiki software are getting quite strong lately in
China ,where a lot of Chinese educator there to share and talk ,
I am wondering if there is possiblity for wikieducator to make money in the
future ? or how for a OER turned into a
a
Hi Leo, that's a good question.
Apology for the long email -- but lots of information to cover in answering
your question.
The OER Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation responsible for
raising the funds to run WikiEducator.org and very soon we will also launch
WikiResearcher.org
Wayne,
WE volunteers are passionate about the cause but need to make a living.
Money is not a dirty word and everyone who spends hours upon hours
contributing to WE should get paid.
I believe an incentive for teachers to contribute to WikiEducator and the
development of OERs is monetary rewards.
Hey ,welll , Nellie , I doubt that we could pay for teachers to blog or to
write on wiki , so I would invite us to think aloud on this topic
What we do here in China is we have a teacher wiki project going on now ,
the link is here http://xinzhishe.hudong.com/jiaoshi/ YOu can view teacher
Wong,
Thank you for sharing the information. That's sounds like a fair deal.
When I wrote WE, I meant WikiEducator.
Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
Sharing is Caring!
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL)
Hi Nellie,
I agree -- Article 23(3) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of
Human Rights states:
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration
ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity,
and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of
Wayne,
I have been a lead facilitator for quite a few workshops and have
volunteered to many more as co-facilitator in the last year. In addition, I
have seen others volunteer as co-facilitators but the numbers are small and
it's harder to find more than a name on the list of co-facilitators
Hi Nellie,
WE commend your example of sharing -- without this culture of gifting,
humanity looses its reason for existence.
Much of our work in general and that of WikiEducator in particular has been
inspired by Mahatma Gandhi -- as Gandhi said:
Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest
