On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote:
> ... I think that investing in people through community development will > achieve sustainable results for the future. > > WE have two immediate challenges: > > > 1. *The complexity and inertia required to develop high quality > learning materials*, when compared, for instance to an encyclopedia > article. The effort required to author an open textbook is considerably > more > than collaborating on an article on Apples. Many contributors start with > excitement to develop a new course or textbook only to loose energy and > impetus. As a result we have a number of incomplete projects. Not all bad > -- > at least there is a starting point for future contributors. > > Definitely community development is at the core of WE's success...to date and in the future. Maybe WE should focus on improving our support for community members in their development of OER and in recognition of their success. WE have "Featured L4C Graduate" and "User Page Expo" currently, maybe we should be looking to expand the "Featured" program to include "Featured Learning Resource", "Featured Collaboration", or "Featured Contributor" (all ideas on WE's Featured Works page<http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_Framework/Featured_Works#Featured_Works> ). On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:36 PM, MALLAMIBRO <[email protected]> wrote: > ...It could be a good idea to introduce a "join a project" section to the > L4C workshops where every participant will be expected to join in > working on one of the projects requiring cleanups or additions. > Ibrahim K. Oyekanmi > I like this idea. I do think that new members enjoy and benefit greatly from early collaboration with others in the WE community. I think we've talked about identifying some straightforward projects...for example glossaries...that could be suggested as good places for new members to join in. I don't have much experience with L4C workshops. Thoughts from someone(s) with more experience in L4C on adding this element to the L4C workshop structure? Warm regards, Alison User page: ASnieckus <http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus> -- 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]
