Those of you who have used Moodle may be familiar with the GIFT format: http://microformats.org/wiki/gift
It is a very simple, easy to use, and easily typed way to mark up interactive quiz questions. While commercial distance learning sites these days almost always offer interactive self-study questions, even the best openly licensed course material sites rarely do. For example, the widely regarded MIT open courseware offerings include quizzes and exams only in PDF format, with questions but no answers. Interactive self-study questions can easily be used to help point students to the readings and exercises that they would be most likely to benefit from. However, thus far only Moodle is supporting GIFT, and no other major organizations have endorsed it. That needs to change. So far I've seen plenty of statements such as, "We are very supportive of the [Wikimedia Assessment Content] project and will help where we can," but I have had less luck collecting donations for it. Currently Erik Möller at the Wikimedia Foundation is deciding whether Wikiversity should support GIFT (which would likely cement its place as the leading quiz markup format.) The least verbose of several alternatives is Moodle's XML content, which can double the keystrokes for simple quiz questions, especially if you count the shift keys necessary to type all the "<" and ">" characters XML requires. Would you please endorse and ask your organization to endorse GIFT as the leading candidate for interactive quiz markup? Please let erik at wikimedia.org know what you and/or your organization thinks about GIFT. Thank you very much for your help. Best regards, James Salsman -- 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]
