Hi Valerie, Your point regarding faculty perception is very important. I suppose the solution is part:
- education -- helping faculty learn about how quality works in wiki models, and - part process (the techniques and procedures WE adopt to support quality. With reference to the education side of the equation, the OER Foundation has a little funding available to develop a series of "intermediate" level tutorials. Open question -- should WE commission the development of a tutorial on how to promote and monitor quality of wiki-based OERs? Would this help "educate" faculty? With reference to the process side -- we're making progress, but clearly a lot more needs to be done. Should we convene a Community workgroup on quality to take this forward? Any other thoughts on what we should be doing to improve WE processes and/or tools to support quality promotion? Like I said -- 2010 is going to be a great year for OER and WE. Cheers Wayne 2010/1/20 valerie <[email protected]> > Thanks Kirby > > Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. I have several class assignments > looking at Wikipedia page histories and discussions so students > understand the process and the power of a collaboratively written > resource work like Wikipedia. That works great. > > WE are always eager to expand our WikiEducator user community. While > it is going well, it could be better. This comment from a student was > simply the latest reminder that there are faculty who are actively > campaigning against wikis and web-based learning objects. I am > frustrated by faculty and their lack of curiosity and professional > growth, that after all this time they are still short-changing their > students with their anti-Wikipedia beliefs. > > If faculty won't accept Wikipedia as a resource, it will be a very > hard sell to get them to author or adopt learning objects in > WikiEducator. While that is their loss, their students are missing out > as well. > > Thanks for listening. > > ..Valerie > > > On Jan 18, 6:49 pm, kirby urner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:50 PM, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > -- > 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] > -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg
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