Hi Randy, Wayne. I think Wayne sets out a realistic 3 steps. And for the most part I think we as a whole are taking those steps. A slight trouble (and risk) is that different people are at different stages in this flow. So while the L4C is focusing on Phase 1: Basic skills development in using the wiki a few of the early adopters are itching for Phase 3: Collaborative content development in achieving collective goals. Otago Polytechnic is an early adopter, and we itch for evidence of phase 3 because all too often we are having to justify our radically different approach to distance and online learning (using Wikieducator). I think we can handle this pressure, but it would be great to see some form of commitment (if resources permit it) to the facilitation of phase 3 opportunities.
Randy seems to be in a position to facilitate some phase 3. A team of facilitators would be good. The webconferences might be a good way to gather steam around making phase 3 facilitation possible, but I suspect a more targeted and proactive facilitation effort is needed. Otago looked like it had something going in terms of a collaboration with Mauritius over our Tourism developments. Similarly with 2 people in the L4C who contributed to "our" HIV/AIDS content. But disappointingly, these have not progressed. Mostly because Otago people have not had the time or skills to begin communicating around collaboration - and so an experienced facilitator is needed. Someone who can mediate the initial stages of a collaboration. Randy's questions: * Define what your understanding of Collaboration is? * How do we propose to measure it, and over what intervals? Collaboration is evidenced by: - Sustained communication - Negotiated outcomes - Shared actions - Shared ownership - Shared outcomes This might be measured by: - The edit history of a page/s - The communication pages - The email list - Student exchange programs - Teacher exchange programs - Team teaching - Networked teaching and learning On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Wayne Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Randy, > > > I'm very excited to see our community starting to think about ways to > increase collaborative development. > > As an aside - I think that this is positive sign attesting to the > dynamic nature of communities and how they mature over time. It's > tempting to distinguish capability maturity phases for WE, for > example: > > Phase 1: Basic skills development in using the wiki > Phase 2:. Focus on content development for own use > Phase 3: Collaborative content development in achieving collective > goals > > So it seems that WE has reached the next phase of our evolution > <smile>. These are exciting times and its great to be part of the > early pioneers taking collective responsibility for building the > future success of OUR project. This is well aligned with our strategy > - because WE is now in the phase of scaling up content development. > > See: http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:About > > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator, go to: http://www.wikieducator.org To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
