Along with all the features, we may as well include featured user as well...
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > -- -- 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: 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
