Hi James, Looks interesting. We're keen to take a look as interactive learning activities will add considerable value to wiki-based OER projects. Jim (Our lead software engineer) has been experimenting with approaches to incorporate quizes -- see for example: http://wikieducator.org/User:JimTittsler/Sandbox/Quiz . Using the Widget extension it is also possible to create a path for utlising Jquery libraries for this sort of functionality but also opening up innovation paths for a series of educational widgets.
Jim is away at the moment taking a well-deserved break -- but we'll look into this and get back to you in a few weeks time. Cheers Wayne On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:25 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -- Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator<http://www.wikieducator.org%20> Mobile +64 21 2436 380 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]
