Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, It is Collaboration Vs Protection; we need to fine tune http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Consensus
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > WE is a unique educational wiki project in many respects. We are different, > for example, from Wikipedia in the sense that our collaboration is not > focused on developing an objective encyclopedia entry resulting from the > micro-contributions of a large number of editors. At the same time, we > benefit from the advantages associated with mass collaboration, for example > shared training materials. > > Moreover, WE has organised itself as a community of educators working on a > wide range of different OER artifacts, for example: open textbooks, OER > courses for online teaching, learning activities based on external > resources, lessons, articles and research papers, handouts, glossary > projects for use as a reference resource, the establishment of project or > community nodes, the development of funding proposals as free content etc. > Other wiki projects within the OER landscape have organised themselves > around the nature of the objects being produced, for instance: Encyclopedia > articles in the case of Wikipedia <http://www.en.wikipedia.org/> or books > in the case of Wikibooks <http://www.en.wikibooks.org/> . > > Therefore we need to think creatively about how our community develops > procedures to support the attainment of our individual and collective aims, > while respecting the intent of the original creators. For example: > > > - There are institutions which develop courses on WikiEducator which > are not intended for collaborative authoring due to local curriculum > requirements. > - There are individuals who develop materials on WikiEducator which > they would like to make available for others to create derivative works, > but > would prefer not to have other educators edit their materials. > - There are many projects in WikiEducator which are seeking wide > collaboration and contributions from the community. > > So the question is: How do we support and respect educator contributions in > WE given the different intentions of our individual contributions? > > Valerie has alerted my attention to this important topic (see: > http://wikieducator.org/Thread:Ownership,_status,_granularity_and_category_(3)) > -- Thanks Valerie. So what is the best way to signify intent and > "ownership" of OER materials in WikiEducator. How do we communicate and > respect a contributor's intention where they do not want collaborative > authoring and participation on their OER resources? If an educator finds a > valuable resource they want to use and improve -- can they edit and change > the resource without creating problems for the original authors resulting > from their modifications? > > Clearly we need a mechanism to visually communicate the intent of the > creator to prospective editors. We need a messaging system which says, for > instance: > > > - I need help and welcome WikiEducators to collaborate, edit and > improve this resource, or > - I have no problems if you copy this resource and modify for your own > purposes -- but will appreciate if you don't make changes because I'm using > this in my course, or > - I don't mind editorial improvements but don't want editors to make > substantive changes to my OER --- suggestions and comments are welcome on > the corresponding talk page. > > It seems to me that we need a template or content infobox which clearly > communicates the intent of the original OER creator in terms of > "permissible" contributions and/or restrictions with regard to community > edits. > > Thoughts? Are there any other intents than those listed above? > > You gotta love the WikiEducator project -- we're figuring out solutions > that work for education. We're pioneering the future that has already > happened :-). > > 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 > > > > -- Warm regards Anil --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
