Hi everyone, Pending the outcome of community ideas and suggestions for setting up a workgroup to develop guidelines for WE workgroups, I've been jotting down a few tentative thoughts ....
See: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups Currently we don't have clear guidelines for community members to make suggestions for changes, new ideas etc for project-wide implementation. Seems to me that a work group approach is a good way to go because: * It respects the freedom of all WIkiEducators to propose changes for improving our project and does not rely on some predetermined community status -- thus empowering all our members to contribute to community innovation. * Ensures open and transparent development and discussion of the ideas * Encourages research and reflection in solving the challenge Be interested to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Cheers Wayne On May 31, 4:22 pm, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone -- > > The concept of instituting work groups in WE has been around for some time, > as suggested, for example by User:Leutha, User:Kakamora and others. > However, we don't have processes or guidelines to assist WikiEducator's in > forming groups that will contribute towards the collective objective of > improving how we work. > > When WikiEducator was much smaller -- it was relatively easy to post a > query, idea or suggestion on the main list and take a collective decision. > With considerable growth since January 2008 our project needs are growing > rapidly and I wonder whether WE should consider formalising a work group > approach? > > In other words, should we set up a work group to develop guidelines on > implementing work groups to be tabled at the first WCC meeting? > > We already have a few work groups that have formed organically. > > *Existing work groups: > * > > - A usability work group iniated by User:Kakamora -- good ideas and > intentions, but hasn't gone further (see: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Usability_Working_Group) > - A work group to talk about Learning Design (Pedagogical templates) -- > (see:http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Learning_design) > - Another work group is looking at the development of an OER Policy > Briefing intended to assist with advocacy of OER among policy makers -- > (see:http://wikieducator.org/OER_Brief_for_policy_makers) > > Are there any other "workgroups" which I may have missed? Peter wouldn't > the volunteer group who have signed up for helping out on the Quality > Assurance and Review framework also constitute a workgroup of sorts? > (See:http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_and_Review). > > Recent posts on the list by Nellie, Ben, Peter, Brent, Randy and Patricia on > the topic of communication alternatives in WE, ning.com etc suggest that the > work group model is possibly a good vehicle for researching these kinds of > questions and proposing alternatives for consideration. > > Two questions: > > 1. Should WE implement a work group approach? > 2. If so, should we initiate a work group to develop a draft set of > guidelines on work groups, utimately leading to a policy on work groups for > consideration by the WCC for approval. > > Cheers > Wayne > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator,www.wikieducator.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
