Wayne, Will you please endorse open self-study assessment content? E.g., Moodle's GIFT http://microformats.org/wiki/gift? This kind of content overlaps with polls. A polling system can often be used for assessment and an assessment system can often be used for polling; the two should be able to share the same code for presenting questions to users.
As you know, there are large numbers of open and free educational resources, but many fewer with open assessments to allow for self- study evaluation, and which in turn can be used to recommend a place to start for learners of varied backgrounds to begin in lengthy texts. Low stakes quizzes as a study activity are also valuable in their own right. Several weeks ago you said you would address this in a few weeks. Why the delay? Yaron Cohen, one of the Semantic Mediawiki developers, has had a standing offer to add GIFT support to Mediawiki for $2,500 since the middle of last Summer. It is a shame that nobody has yet stepped forward to make it happen. Sincerely, 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]
