Valerie,
I am very interested in collaboratively developing OERs, with an open
invitation to all for additions and revisions. I do think we have quite a
number of projects underway that fit this model.
I've never worked on wikipedia, but it seems like the early editors may have
intentionally cultivated the "Be bold" culture ("in a nutshell: If you see
something that can be improved, improve it!" from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold ).
Maybe we should be asking how we can intentionally cultivate a culture in
which OERs are collaboratively developed and improved. But in doing so we
need to be mindful of the issue that many (most?) learning resources are
context dependent.
And this brings us back to the discussion that Wayne began last week on "How
do we support and respect Wikieducator contributions in WE?" (
http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/59b30be2abadcb59)
The conversation began with Wayne proposing that authors label their
work
according to the level of community contribution desired. For a community
resource he suggested: "I need help and welcome WikiEducators to
collaborate, edit and improve this resource."
Labeling our developing resources as to the level of community collaboration
desired seems like it could help both the resources that need to be focused
on a target audience as well as those that are community-wide resources. Did
anyone begin work on the templates that could be used for this purpose?
Alison
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:19 AM, valerie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is there any interest in developing OERs using the Wikipedia model?
> Although someone starts a page, there is always an implicit open
> invitation to add and update. I'd start with middle school science and
> math activities but I'm open to suggestions.
>
> It seems that most WE contributors - myself included, haven't been
> working this way. Partly because there isn't anything that is
> explicitly designated for this wide community collaboration. Partly
> because most contributors are working on personal teaching resources.
>
> To me, the Wikipedia model is about creating open learning resources.
> I would really like to get some collaborative content development
> going that extends beyond the needs of an individual teacher, or
> school.
>
> We are seeing expanding participation as learners in FOC08, CCK09,
> L4C, M4T which is great. Now let's get that going in the development
> side.
>
> >
>
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