Hi Tiffany: Your project sounds very exciting. I would like to learn more about it and possibly partner with you. I have over forty years of experience in community organizing/community development primarily in poor communities in the US and have a doctorate in Adult Education as field of social practice in the tradition of Paulo Freire and Myles Horton. My employer SUNY Empire State College is in the midst of exploring the development of a Master of Arts in Adult Learning that will have a community development component that I hope will link with an online, distance education component. It sounds as if our interests our very similar. I am doing my best to master the wikieducator modules and to understand the wikiworld. I would love to work with you. My personal e-mail is [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you or others in the forum who share these interests. Joyce McKnight
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Subject [WE Teacher Collaboration] Open Content for Development (OC4D) wiki site
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Wayne, thanks for your reflections about the power of wikis and the imperative to freely share content in a global way.
I'm Tiffany Ivins. I'm a doctoral student at BYU working with David Wiley (the guy that coined the term 'Open Content'). We are working with ProLiteracy Worldwide, an NGO based in New York, with 130 NGO partners across the developing world (Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and many island nations).
Through several conversations with their International Program Director, Dr. Lynn Curtis, we have gotten consent to share all of their educational materials in open, digitized formats into an open portal on the web (www.oc4d.org). We have decided to use a wiki format so that anyone anywhere can freely access, modify, localize and share these resources. These are tools developed by locals for locals in developing countries.
The tools on OC4D are primarily geared toward nonformal educators (e.g. literacy facilitators, health workers, agricultural extension agents, peace workers, and microloan officers). As you will see if you look at the site, the issues addressed by these tools are central to lower-developed poor communities and the change agents (nonformal educators) who work with lower-literate groups and/or use these tools to facilitate "literacy for social change."
Right now, we're working on getting English versions up and then we'll hope to put up all content created/modified by the NGO partners across the world who are part of the ProLiteracy Worldwide consortium. We would love to collaborate with anyone else in this effort who is interested to share quality content addressing critical issue for improved problem-solving in developing countries around the world.
We are open to input and we would like to link to and from the WikiEducator Site because it will build capacity on both sides. Also, if you know of any other effort which is similar in nature to this, could you let us know so that we could seek collaboration with them (e.g. sharing best practices and lessons learned) so we don't reinvent the wheel.
We are planning to launch this initiative at the first of 2010 and to share the materials with some non-foramal education groups in the Himalayas (Community Learning Centers, Tele-Centers, Community Multimedia Centers etc.). If any of you have done work with open content targeting these populations, we'd love to talk with you and share ideas to improve access to educational opportunities for all.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Tiffany
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