[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-07 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Peter and Leigh and WikiEducators -- PLEASE READ THE NEXT STEPS SECTION AT THE END OF THIS POST I like the featured content resource suggestion -- something we also alluded to in one of our earlier in our discussions on the topic: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_frm/thread

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-07 Thread Peter
Leigh, Maybe you said it better than me. But this is the point I am trying to make with the use of a maturity model. It allows the community engaged in the direct creation and use / reuse of the content to also define a localized version of quality. Yes, I believe we need to avoid a colonized ver

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread Leigh Blackall
As a suggestion maybe.. what about a "page of the month" project. It only celebrates a few pages, without a site wide application of quality indicators. The page of the month isn't necessarily determined by quality, but rather is only meant to draw focus on different projects by interviewing the pe

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread Leigh Blackall
I am coming into the quality discussion late. I have tried to read all the threads here and in the wiki. I don't think I have see a comment along these lines: A quality indication on works leads me and others to wonder "who's quality". It's an obvious comment really, and I'm sure it has been menti

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Leo, These are good examples of the kinds of processes that should be incorporated into our evolving capability maturity model for WE. These are the key processes that will help us in building the quality we are striving for. I think that the challenge we are going to face is related to the

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Peter and Leo Good discussion -- although I think we may be talking cross purposes here? That is saying the same thing from different perspectives. I think the extent that content is reused and recontextualised is an excellent of the health of our community. You're right -- the measure of th

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread Wong Leo
Thank you Peter , you are amazing ! I am reading what you and Wayne wrote very carefully and really learning a lot from both of you .I am not sure if I understand the animal analogy , I would like to give my 2 cents to this on the quality or healthy wiki resources . 1 What is the purpose of the ed

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread Peter
Wayne, I believe we are trying to push into new ground. That of measuring the quality of wiki based OER. And I like that Leo agreed, reuse and recontextualization is most important. I also believe that the only people who can measure the health of a Grade 7 geography lesson for Pakistan are the p

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread mackiwg
Hi Peter, Thanks for starting this thread --- these are tough and challenging questions. I think we need to think about whose temperature we're measuring . Is it the content or is it the community. So when we're talking about the health of the WE OER community -- this is something different from

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread Peter
Leo, This criterion came from my head. I believe the list could be much longer and I hope we grow the list in the context of the WikiEducator Quality Assurance initiative. http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_and_Review If you want to see a list of references that helped m

[WikiEducator] Re: What are the indicators of a healthy wiki environment?

2008-05-06 Thread Wong Leo
Wow this is a so important thread , thank you for bring that up , I think the healthy wiki enviorment would be the Number 5 below , the number of times it has been reused and recontextulized and Number 6 the number of different countries that use it 1 I think it is so important that ev