Hi Alison. I think you're right community development and capability maturation are the cornerstones for WikiEducators success :-).
Both suggestions (i.e. providing improved support for newbies to engage in collaborative development and matching WikiEducators with existing projects which are of interest for them are good ideas.) WE've adopted an incremental learn-by-doing model which is working rather well. With each iteration we get better at what we do. So for example, we're tweaking our L4C workshops to provide more avenues for participants to engage in existing projects. In addition there is a need for "intermediate" level tutorials where we provide better support for "learning" how to develop OER in the community. In the near future the OER Foundation will be commissioning the development of these kinds of resources with the intention of using the L4C training model for the next level of development and support. The trick, I think, is to find projects which are closely related to the real working lives of our members and then connecting these projects with others who share similar interests. We're making the world a better place -- one day at a time :-) Cheers Wayne On 4 July 2010 01:15, Alison Snieckus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > -- 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 -- 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]
