On 4 July 2010 06:46, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I, for one, would love to work with a partner or partners on the project I > promised...an adult education textbook. Otherwise it probably will not get > done given time constraints and my tendency to volunteer for too much. > Joyce McKnight, SUNY/Empire State College >
Hi Joyce -- great idea - -why don't you just start work on an adult education textbook -- just do it and we will help make this happen. Why not list this as one of the CollabOERate strategic projects ( http://wikieducator.org/OERF:CollabOERate). I'm pretty sure that around the world we can identify a few institutions who would like to work on an OER course / textbook for Adult education. The OER Foundation will also be hosting a strategic meeting here in Dunedin, New Zealand for a new project concept called the mOER4one project. This is similar to the buy-one-get-one-free concept where a tertiary organisation will allocate resources (time and money) for the development of one OER course of textbook. If, for example, four institutions participate -- we get four courses in return for the investment of one course. You get the idea -- with this approach we bring together the best WikiEducator course design expertise with proper project management for completion. The participating institutions decide on their own priorities and we make this happen. Perhaps SUNY/Empire State College would like to join us? Cheers Wayne > > [email protected] wrote: ----- > > To: [email protected] > From: Alison Snieckus > Sent by: [email protected] > Date: 07/03/2010 09:15AM > > Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Resource Repository > > 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] > > -- > 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]
