Peter, I took a quick look at some of the maturity model pages you linked to. The approach looks interesting and I agree that framing some goals in the context of a rubric could have some advantages. I use a rough rubric when assigning student wiki-writing assignments. I see flexibility as a key ingredient.
A rubric setting benchmarks for successful content development would of course serve as the guideline for peer review. However, it would be important to build in enough flexibility to allow for excellence in many different categories. In my own limited experience, I ask students to make a math connection to a science lesson plan for example. But some projects, like flower dissection, present a better opportunity for an artistic connection. Why discourage a great artistic or literary connection just to rigidly stick with math (although I suppose we could count petals to sort the monocots from the dicots). My point is that by building in flexibility to a rubric, we can avoid fostering a boring bunch of formulaic, clonal pages. One advantage of this WE format is that by collaborating broadly we can bring our diverse skill sets to bear on the content of the pages. Wayne, thanks for getting the discussion page going and updating it. Do you have a sense for whether we should post here, there, or both? And this is exciting! So, if a project is peer reviewed, done, and dusted as they say, should we retain a wiki version for flexibility and ongoing collaboration, and also an archived PDF version of acknowledged quality? And if we keep a PDF version, do we want to go one step beyond, and get a DOI, volume and page number and call it a journal? Would that fly in the face of the 'open' piece of OER? Would keeping a wiki version preserve the 'openness'? Good night! Declan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
