Colleagues:
a href=http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/
Resolution:License_update target=_blankhttp://
wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update/a
Does this mean that we'll soon be able to use material from Wikipedia
and other Mekimedia Foundation sites here on WikiEducator? Or is
Interestingly, I just added a comment to
http://www.wikieducator.org/Talk:Libre_License
and it changed almost all of the dates on the other comments to be the
present. Weirdly, though, there are a few that didn't change.
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Erik wrote:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikis_Go_Printable
Especially for someone like me who wants to see more collaborative
textbook development on WikiEducator, this is a profoundly welcome
development!
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To expand on Randy's point, WikiEducator doesn't actually do anything
independently of those who contribute to it; it is simply the sum of
its contributions. The strength of an open system like WE is that
those who are concerned about maintaining cultural diversity in
educational materials are
Nellie Deutsch wrote:
Randy what do you mean by: Can't wait 'til the day that we have Master's
level content on WikiEd!
The stated goal of WikiEducator is to have developed materials for all
disciplines at the primary, secondary, and tertiary level by 2015.
That includes the materials
Leo wrote:
It is even much harder for me to participate in the discussion
here , coz I sooo much want to speak out for China students ,
but there are not
much platform like WE ( I like WE best personally ) however , WE is
not supporting Chinese so far now .
For what it's worth, I too
Leo wrote:
It is even much harder for me to participate in the discussion
here , coz I sooo much want to speak out for China students ,
but there are not
much platform like WE ( I like WE best personally ) however , WE is
not supporting Chinese so far now .
For what it's worth, I too
So we've had some more updates to the UPE page and I think we're ready
for the conspiracy to strike. One question, though, how do things get
added to the front page? I'm realising from this that I have no idea
what that process is, who the editor-in-chief is there.
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Leigh wrote:
Maybe it will deter some people Nadia. It doesn't deter me. I like
the idea of a small start up business discovering a way to make money
from my work.
I do too, especially when that means that a small for-profit school
has access to the materials they need, especially in places
Randy wrote:
Is there an FAQ about these specific questions, or shall we create
one?
Well, there's this:
http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Licensing_Policy
That's not a FAQ, that's a start of a policy that I put together a
while back. At this point, though I think completion will have
Wayne wrote:
Don't forget that our WikiEducator community would also benefit
tremendously from these initiatives smile. WE already has a few
examples worth exploring. Steve Foerster has started called XXI
Texts -- the idea being to update text books which are in the public
domain. (http
Wayne wrote:
I'm working hard to find a solution for establishing a Chinese
localisation for WE. The bottom line is that I need external funding
sources for the installation and hosting.
Who funded the Spanish, French, and Portuguese editions?
As a Commonwealth Agency, I am unable to set
James,
That's a great question.
If WE is truly to be community governed, then assigning
responsibilities like administrative permissions needs to come from
the Council. I foresee that once the Council is in place, that
through resolution they can appoint people or rescind administrative
Nellie wrote:
Please note that to ensure a fair and valid voting procedure, we will
need
* First name and last name
* WikiEducator username
Please rest assured that all votes are confidential and only the
electoral committee has access to the personal information of
candidates and only
Peter wrote:
http://www.technology.virginia.gov/TechnologyNews/index.cfm?id=770
Benjamin Crowell's _Light_and_Matter_ series of physics textbooks was
designed for introductory courses at the university level, but it's
seen adoption by a number of secondary schools as well:
I wrote:
I wonder why they don't just start with that? It's already
CC-BY-SA; they don't even need to ask.
I went ahead and wrote to the contact person listed in the press
release. If he responds interestingly I'll post it here.
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Leo wrote:
http://www.dmlcompetition.net/
what do you think of this ?
Wow, good eye, Leo, I think it's really interesting. I'd think that
WE might have a chance for one of the the organisational awards. Can
we apply?
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Nellie wrote:
The final announcement will be made on September 30, 2008.
Is that an answer to my question about releasing results earlier if
they're available? ;-)
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Thank you very much to all who participated in our first WikiEducator
Council election, and especially to those who oversaw them. I'd also
like to add my personal thanks to those who honoured me with one of
their votes.
Now that this process is complete, however, we have a lot of work to
do.
I've created the group for the WikiEducator Community Council. Those
who are members have been added already, others can see the archives.
http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-community-council
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Victor wrote:
On another note, i am not sure if there exist a page/portal/
category of all policies we have been developing so far for WE.
While we can discuss this here, perhaps the council should collate our
views on this and incorporate into a disccussion agenda somethime.
I try to add
Wayne wrote:
This is an open invitation to all WIkiEducators for any questions
you may have about WikiEducator 3.0, but more importantly providing
us with well-founded advice on our next steps.
I have a few questions:
* Where did we get WikiEducator 3.0? I wasn't aware we'd had a
2.0. If
Erik wrote:
It will allow us to update our extensions, including the ever-
beloved LQT. (The latest LQT fixes include a fix for the issue with
highlighting only the first comment in new message notifications, and
restore the header page, which was inadvertently removed when the sort
feature was
Randy,
I think that's a good idea, and since it seems everyone else does as
well I went to change it, but can't see how to do so. Perhaps that's
a level of access I don't have?
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Randy wrote:
In a way, I feel like I'm going by the seat of my pants ~ many
things seem to be in a state of flux, and in terms of what the
expectations regarding my role as WikiEd Council Member, I am unsure.
I know what you mean. In the absence of something formal, though, I
suppose all we
Randy wrote:
I've just had an experience that is leading me to believe that WE
can reach out to educators previously not on our radar (i.e., the
Early / Late Majority ~ from Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm). My
sense is that, it could really help us accelerate our scalability
plans in
Erik wrote:
the Free Software Foundation has today released the version 1.3 of
the GNU Free Documentation License, the licensed used by Wikipedia.
This version of the GFDL allows GFDL-wikis to switch to CC-BY-SA - see
section 11, relicensing:
Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation!
Sing,
Günther,
I'm surprised your message calling for an examination of what
relationship WE could have with nonviolence didn't get more
attention. It sounds interesting, but there are aspects to this that
I would want to explore further.
For example, the four listed guidelines use terms that mean
Happy New Year to Savithri and to all. Your card was very beautiful.
For what it's worth, I'm still hopeful that even as the world noisily
takes two steps back it also in other ways quietly takes three steps
forward.
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Leigh wrote:
Fair Use (and Dealings) is the right of educators, as it is for journalists
and documentary makers. Instead of religiously playing into the hands of
copyright fascism with strict adherence to copyleft (and so limiting our
educational opportunities to only content meeting free
Günther wrote:
Really sorry that I did not answer to you posts up to this moment,
but that didn't mean I ignored your replies. I was so busy the last
weeks, that I couldn't start working on that too. Now it's Christmas
holidays and I'll be back on screen midst of January. Then I'll
respond.
Minhaaj wrote:
Well sorry for missing a month at UPE and probably too late for
this one. I would like to announce that UPE is up for grabs. If
someone want to volunteer in awarding UPEs, you are most welcome.
Steve and I have been too busy in real life stuff that probably won't
be as active as
Peter wrote:
I round of applause for Gladys Gahona. She is this months Featured
User Page.http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE#February_2009
having her first edit on 6th November 2008, she has done amazing work
and created an exemplary user page. Check out her
Peter wrote:
This idea seems to be gaining support. Any objections to me adding the
following to the UPE definition?
UPE's can also be nominated (either self nominated or nominated by
another). The only requirements for nomination are;
1) the name of the nominee
2) the URL of the nominees
Hollis wrote:
Ten PHYSICS educators from Trinidad and Tobago became wiki
educators today as they registered as wikieducators and began a two
day workshop hosted by the Curriculum Planning and Development Division
{CPDD}, Ministry of Education in collaboration with the National Open
School of
Nellie wrote:
I would like to see more educators collaborating on Wikieducator.
Me too, but I continue to believe that this won't happen the way we
want until WikiEducator has WYSIWYG editing. My day job is training
university faculty members to use technology, and there's no way most
of mine
Wow Rima, what a great user page! The award is richly deserved!
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Benjamin wrote:
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as
long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. –
George Bernard Shaw (http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_community.html)
This quote by George Bernard Shaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jim wrote:
Secondly, WikiEducator has as one of its missions to help different
learning communities to develop courses and materials.
I've been pretty quiet for a while now, sorry about that everyone!
I've been busy with doctoral study and switching from employment to
contracting, and it's
Randy wrote:
That barrier is set to fall very soon, with Jim Tittsler's work,
community input and NZ Ministry of Education funding.
We have a rich text editing beta up at:http://en1.wikieducator.net
You can log into it, using your WE settings as usual.
Whoa, I didn't know that. I
Wayne wrote:
Welcome back! They say changing jobs, moving house etc are among
the top 10 stress generators. Add a little PhD work into the mix ---
that's more than enough to divert attention! That said, we're most
appreciative of the time you've volunteered during the recent
Community Council
Anil wrote:
Steve has consented to be the Convener of the WE Blog WorkGroup.
Now all those community members interested in framing policy for
WE Blog may be invited to enlist their name at:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Blog
One thing I can report is that I briefly
Wayne wrote:
Agree we need to be very careful with mass-email which can arguably
and justifiably be labelled as WE spam. I would suggest implementing
an option for new users to subscribe to a news / letter magazine. We
can consider a once off notification to WE account holders regarding
the
I thought this might interest some here. It's American-centric, but the
principle is universal:
http://tinyurl.com/yzvw3kb
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Mary wrote:
My name is Mary Ziller and I recently joined your wonderful group.
I hope to learn a lot with you. I have a question that I would like to
ask the group. I searched the group archives on copyright and found
only one thread that did not answer my question: How much of a
newspaper
Wayne wrote:
With generous funding support from the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation, the OER Foundation is pleased to
announce that we are able to take OER interoperability
and remix potential to new levels.
That's very exciting! I've been thinking about something not unrelated
to
Dear All,
This is marginally off topic, but I can't think of a better place to ask
this, so I'll risk incurring collective wrath.
I am considering switching doctoral programs, in part so that I can have
a topic that's more related to my interests in OERs, educational
technology, distance
Joyce wrote:
I live in the Adirondacks in New York State so I am not sure it
fills your bill. I have a doctorate in Adult Education an interest in
the subjects you are interested in and am a graduate of Pennsylvania
State University where Dr. Michael Moore who is well known in distance
Anil,
Interesting post! I agree that New Year's resolutions are in order, but
that we shouldn't lose sight of our mission, even if it's to acknowledge
other important issues.
So given that our mission is to develop open educational resources, what
might be great to hear is what content each
Hello all,
I thought this might interest some here.
Best,
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Subject: CIDER: Invitation to present your research
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:03:12 -0600
From: CIDER cider-webmas...@athabascau.ca
To: cider-webmas...@athabascau.ca
Dear CIDER member:
We
Wayne wrote:
Ethically -- you should not apply any license to the original public
domain image -- (because all materials dedicated to the public
domain should remain in the public domain.
Indeed you cannot apply a license to works in the public domain. Even
if someone says they've done so
Anil wrote:
As the New Year waits at the threshold of 2011, shall we plan more
online courses on a variety of subjects? I think the time has come!
Sounds good to me -- what course will you be offering? ;-)
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Wayne,
What a great way to start the new year for WE -- I'm particularly
excited about the training initiative on open content licensing for
educators!
Happy new year to all,
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I thought this might be of some interest to people here. Basically,
there's a new grant program for two-year colleges that requires that
any curricular materials produced with the grant money be released as
CC-BY.
This is mildly offtopic, but I demoed and reviewed Canvas LMS today
and I thought it might be of interest to some here since the company
that makes it, Instructure, announced today that they were opening its
source. I'm used to teaching through Moodle, which I like, but I have
to say that I
It seems that Khan Academy, the makers of those awesome (if
insufficiently freely licensed) educational videos, has teamed up with
BitTorrent as a distribution mechanism:
http://blog.bittorrent.com/2011/02/10/khan-academy-education-videos-arrive-in-the-app-studio/
In a practical sense, the big
Hi Jim,
All I meant was that it's cool to see two things I like -- Khan
Academy and BitTorrent -- working together in a way I wouldn't
necessarily have expected. I wasn't really trying to liken either
project to either of those specific characters. (Besides, if I were
I'd probably have gone
Unesco has announced that they are discontinuing the OER acronym in
favor of a longer but more inclusive term! More information is
available here:
http://hiresteve.com/2011/04/01/important-unesco-replaces-oer-acronym/
Cheers,
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Chris wrote:
That was a good one, I laughed pretty hard.
The link to your own article was a nice touch.
I'm glad you liked it -- it was meant all in good fun, of
course. :-)
I'd say the joke's really on Unesco, though, since so many people
thought this was eminently believable!
Cheers,
Bad news of the day:
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/05/13/a-nightmare-scenario-for-higher-education/
It's past time for universities to devote more of their considerable
resources toward developing OERs to prevent this sort of foolishness.
Commercial publishers need universities,
http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/bangladeshi-teachers-to-lead-content-development/
I thought this was interesting. Does anyone know whether these
materials will be openly available?
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InsideHigherEd, an American news and commentary site that tracks
higher education, has an interesting commentary today called Open
Questions on Open Courseware by Eric Jansson, an affiliated fellow
with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education
(NITLE) and member of its advisory
Why Aren't Open Educational Resources Organizations Supporting Related
Movements?
http://community.elearners.com/all_blogs/the_elearners_news_blog/b/elearnersnews/archive/2011/07/14/why-aren-t-open-educational-resources-organizations-supporting-related-movements.aspx
As you can see, this annoyed
Simon wrote:
Well, looking at their next get together, where CIO still play the high
priests, it hasn't changed that much. But you know how it works. One
can't change an institution from the outside.
Perhaps not directly, but you can set up a competing institution that
is too successful to be
Anil Prasad wrote:
See another crucial -perhaps the most important- area : various reports say,
more than 10 Indian students study in US. This means, it’s high time the
two nations thought about a Transnational Qualification Framework for better
mobility of students and hassle free cross
Anil Prasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote:
I hope the message from Abel Caine, UNESCO OER Programme, as added
below, regarding the launch of the UNESCO Open Educational Resources
Platform and UNESCO/COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education on
Tuesday 1 Nov, will be of grater interest to most of
Hi Ravi,
Can you tell more about what the project's goals are? That might affect
the answers.
Regards,
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Stephen Downes wrote:
Personally, I probably won't use the logo - I don't understand
why it was created or what it is supposed to signify, exactly.
I agree, it seems like a solution in search of a problem.
This is all the more so because there's already an existing logo that
not only
Nellie, Ramesh, and all,
What a great choice, and what a great way for us all to start off 2014!
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Congratulations! I love your use of boxes! :-)
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On Sunday, August 10, 2014 9:48:29 AM UTC-4, Ramesh Sharma wrote:
Dear Friends,
The WikiEducator User Page Expo http://wikieducator.org/UPE (UPE to
its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages
that are
Congratulations Kim! :-D
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On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:29:33 AM UTC-4, Ramesh Sharma wrote:
Dear Friends,
The WikiEducator User Page Expo http://wikieducator.org/UPE (UPE to
its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages
that are particularly
Good use of images and lots of information!
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On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 9:49:16 AM UTC-4, Ramesh Sharma wrote:
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> Dear Friends,
>
> The WikiEducator User Page Expo
New World University has need for a part time *OER Coordinator* to assist
with the university’s open educational resources initiatives. Our
institution is based in the Caribbean regional his position will be remote,
and applications are welcome from anyone with reliable Internet access
I just wanted to say nice job to Marc Singer, who presented on OERu yesterday
at the ongoing OpenEd conference in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
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Many thanks, Rajiv, and congratulations on the book!
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On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 11:44:10 AM UTC-4, Rajiv Jhangiani wrote:
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> Dear colleagues,
> I wanted to s
han forcing
> learners to join, services like Twitter. Most conversations on our instance
> will be focused on OERu and OER related topics, however as open technology,
> WikiEducator users are free and most welcome to create accounts on our
> instance (thanks Steve Foerster for suggesting
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> Best wishes
> Wayne
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> Wayne Mackintosh
> Director OER Foundation and OERu facilitator
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Hi Anil,
Do you have a sense of what you would specifically like participants to do?
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> Friends,
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> Million Pillars Economy theory development project on WikiEducator is
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