Wayne, Thank you for the updates. The numbers speak for themselves. :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The Learning4Content project is likely the worlds largest attempt to > develop wiki skills for education. With generous funding support from the > William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Commonwealth of Learning, over > the last 18 months WikiEducator has: > > - Recruited 3001 educators from 113 different countries for wiki skills > training > - Scheduled 86 workshops (that's an average of more than 1 workshop per > week!) > - Increased the volume of OER content in WikiEducator by 270% > > WE has published its report on the first 18 months of the Learning4Content > project. You can download a copy from the project's home page, listed under > the News section: > > http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content > > WE invite you to visit the personal stories of our featured > Learning4Content graduates: > > http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates > > There's some interesting data in the report, for example: > > - WikiEducator has recorded a higher content per user production rate > than the large public wikis like Wikipedia and Wikiversity. > - 43% of the educators enrolled for a Learning4Content workshop have > achieved a wiki certification. 62% of these educators have acquired the > skills of a Level 2 Apprentice or higher (see: > http://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster). > > Another reason to take a brief moment and celebrate our achivements! Well > done WikiEducator. > > Our next Learning4Content workshop starts this Monday, 24 August 2009. You > can register here: > > http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration > > Cheers > Wayne > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
