Hi Valerie, With thanks to dedicated WikiEducators like yourself (and hundreds of others) -- WE, as a community, is now in a position to scale up our original vision of developing digital OERs in support of all national curricula.
One advantage of open self organising systems is the ability to solve problems in parallel. For example, we don't need to wait to solve all the distribution challenges before we can start collaborating on high-demand content areas. (That said -- we've made significant progress in tackling on the wiki ==> pdf challenge, and pretty soon teachers around the world will be able to download WikiEducator collections in open document format for editing locally offline -- saving on expensive connectivity costs :-) ) In terms of getting a pilot started, we could for example: - Make contact with Vincent Kizza who is taking leadership in establishing an national OER portal for Uganda (See: http://www.wikieducator.org/OERUG ) -- Ask Vincent about high priority content areas. - Reuse ideas and concepts from the the OERNZ project ( http://www.wikieducator.org/New_Zealand_Schools_OER_Portal ) which is starting to think about different types of OER that may be useful in the school sector (http://tinyurl.com/yld88n2) - Take Declan up on his offer for us to remix, collaborate and add value to the amazing set of lesson materials in Biology for Elementary Schools developed by his students (http://tinyurl.com/yg6wqut ) I'm sure there are many other ideas we could consider, but this would be a good starting point for a proof-of-concept? Other ideas? Cheers Wayne 2009/11/15 valerie <vtay...@gmail.com> > > Thanks Wayne > > Many of us would like to work on exactly this sort of project. > > What do we know about the content needs for this? Can we layout a > foundation so we can collaborate on content creation and assembly, in > parallel with resolving distribution issues? Is there some subject and > grade level that could be used as a pilot program? > > It would be nice to find a specific high-demand content area to work > through as a proof-of-concept. > > ..Valerie > > > On Nov 14, 2:17 pm, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > How can OER help these children? This is why we need to think > creatively > about technologies that can generate printed text books for children > who > will not have the privilege of attending school. WE need to think of > creative solutions where we can combine the best of informal learning > with > national accreditation systems -- in other word rethinking the > traditional > models of educational provision. This is a tough challenge -- but > with > concerted effort I think we can make a difference. I sense that OER is > part > of the solution. > > > -- 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
