James, I'm not opposed to the implementation of GIFT for assessment content and I do think this will value to the OER landscape (assuming that OER needs to reside within a LMS for formative assessment purposes.)
Our current approach at the OER Foundation with regards to student-content interactions is incremental -- simply because we do not have the financial capacity for the complexities associated with the GIFT approach at this time. The approach we are focusing on at the moment is to use Jquery libraries for providing interactions with the simple implementation of iFrame tags to integrate wiki-based content into different delivery platforms. This is not as powerful as the GIFT model because the host LMS would not be able to track student performance reliably. Another challenge is the extent that GIFT is implemented across a variety of different delivery technologies. Strategically, at the time - we are focused on scaling the rate of production of OER in the formal sector and we believe an incremental approach will deliver better results in the short term. If this is an itch - -scratch it :-) Wayne On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:34 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -- 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]
