Hi Peter, Apology for the tardy response -- but a few thoughts on your questions.
> 1. Do you also believe that what our "quality standard(s)" should do > is encourage participation and wiki based OER skills development? Absolutely --- I think our quality approaches should encourage engagement, not dissuade WikiEducators from achieving quality. Good examples through the featured resource and feature reuse resource will motivate aspiring WikiEducators. > 2. Do you believe that the featured item approach will work to > encourage participation and deepen skills? I think good examples using the featured item approach will show what WE mean by quality and generate ideas for content authors. I don't think that the featured item approach will necessarily deepen skills. However, through support from the community and relevant tutorials we will progressively build capability for all WikiEducator's. > 3. Are there other approaches / items we should consider in developing > a WE quality initiative? Yes I think we need to adopt a multi-faceted approach with different levels -- all of which should be optional, with corresponding levels of support. For example, Level 1: might be nomination and evaluation as a featured resource based on the criteria our community develops. Level 2: Could be a peer reviewed system which is more traditional in the academic sense. I think we should start with suggested criteria for a featured resource -- and test these on some content examples in WE. We will need to think about processes, how we judge the quality etc. The issues of quality is going to become increasingly important over the next few months -- My sense is that getting this right will help our community grow, particularly when working with the "sceptics" who question open authoring approaches. Arguably, this is going to be one of our most important projects in WE and I hope we will get the participation from the community which it deserves :-). Cheers Wayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
