WikiEducatorOpen Education Resource Foundation (OERF)http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation : WikiEducatorOpen Education Resource Foundation (OERF)http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation A presentation given by
Patricia Schlicht
Learning4Content Coordinator
WikiEducator
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht
patricia@oerfoundation.org
Baseline Information: WikiEducator : Baseline Information: WikiEducator Community > 14,105 registered users to-date (6/10/10) > 10,000 site visitors/day Capacity developed 3,950 educators trained to-date; that is
~150 educators per month since inception (29 months) Currently around + / - 50:50 Male/Female
Before fewer women and more men depending on the region. Gender distribution in workshops
Baseline Information:WikiEducator : Baseline Information:WikiEducator Connections Top 100K website (~ 90,000th place)
Wiki ==> print Equivalent of 100 study guides or text book produced:
49 books equiv. in 2009 (Jun09) versus
22 books in 2007 = 123% increase
= 4.08 books equiv./month for 2009
(1.83 book equiv./month in 2008) Content
What is WikiEducator? : What is WikiEducator? The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaboration WikiEducator is also a global open source project dedicated to developing open content resources in support of all national curricula by 2015, in line with the UN's Millennium Development Goals. WikiEducator is a top 100K website with 10.5 million hits per month (October, 2009). It has 14,105 members in more than 120 countries. 72% of its users are teachers, lecturers or trainers working in the education sector.
What is WikiEducator? : What is WikiEducator? The WikiEducator was developed the collaborative:
What is WikiEducator? : What is WikiEducator?
Slide 7 : WikiEducator We're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. We hope you can help us. Voted best educational wiki, Steven Downes, Dec 2007 Inaugural recipient of the award for Exemplary Open Education Resource (OER) practices
We have exceeded our strategic target : We have exceeded our strategic target Target for a Community governance model Achieved 18 months in advance
(June 2009) With >14,105 user today this has more than tripled (June 2010)
Slide 9 : Age distribution Our WE surprise? 50% > 45 years
Slide 10 : Current roles of WikiEducators
Slide 11 : Educational level and sector
Slide 12 : Why do you join WikiEducator?
Advantages of WikiEducator : Advantages of WikiEducator
Advantages of WikiEducator : Advantages of WikiEducator
Meet the WikiEducator Community : Meet the WikiEducator Community “The cause is noble, the vision is clear, the challenge is set. I decided to take it, and must forever be developed and continued.” “WikiEducator to me is not just a website, it is a means of sharing my rich experiences as a teacher with the global community of teachers and students.
WE inspires me to think of new ways of using technology for Education.
For making it more interesting to learners, using colors and images for visual attraction are my favorite. Gladys Gahona, Mexico, Graduate. 15th L4C workshop Gita Mathur, India, Graduate 1st L4C workshop,
Meet the WikiEducator Community : Meet the WikiEducator Community Victor Mensah, Zambia, Graduate 1st L4C workshop, now building a Zambian WE Chapter “WikiEducator is not only ground-breaking, its foresight is defining history, and must forever be developed and continued." “WikiEducator is a place where I become we” “WikiEducator is my second home -- an online home!” Nellie Deutsch, L4C Online Facilitation expert Anil Prasad, L4C F2F Facilitator in South Asia, meanwhile also WE Community Council Member
WikiEducator Community Governance : WikiEducator Community Governance Countries Canada, India, Germany, New Zealand, Pakistan, Samoa, Uganda, USA, Zambia
Examples of WikiEducator Project : Examples of WikiEducator Project OER Handbook (COSL)
Slide 19 : Learning4Content workshops > 100 workshops
Since inception in January 2008 > 3,950 educators
Learning4Content (L4C) Project : Learning4Content (L4C) Project Learning4Content is the world's largest attempt to develop wiki skills for education. In return for free training, we encourage participants to become WikiEducators themselves by developing and donating one free content resource back to the community. We have trained thousands of teachers from more than 120 countries in basic wiki editing skills.
Many L4C graduates have become facilitators themselves, sharing their knowledge and helping us scale OER development for the social good of education.
Examples of WikiEducator Project : Examples of WikiEducator Project Learning4Content Project Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may not remember, involve me, and I'll understand conduct 160 workshops
train 2500 teachers/educators
all Commonwealth Countries Initial Target (January 2008) Status (June 2010) conducted 102 workshops
- 64 face-to-face - 40 online (current not included)
trained >3950 teachers/educators to-date (June 2010)
in now all countries
WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Portal and Discussion Forum : WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Portal and Discussion Forum Launched on April 4, 2009
Consists of about 950 members in more than 50 countries
Since its launch, the following examples of collaborative OER development projects have
been started:
a. OER Advocacy Policy Development
b. Visual Arts Education (Portugal/Kenya)
c. Data Management (India)
d. English Language (Mexico/India/Israel)
http://www.wikieducator.org/Teacher_Collaboration
The important Issue of Quality Assurance and Quality Control : The important Issue of Quality Assurance and Quality Control The development of WE mechanisms for quality assurance
are directed and founded on our community values of: WikiEducator is currently developing an Quality Assurance and Review Framework.
The purpose of this initiative is to initiate open and transparent dialogue with WikiEducators to:
discuss and develop WE processes that will assist in promoting the
quality of our teaching materials;
develop a draft policy for quality assurance for consultation and adoption by the community;
http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_and_Review
Slide 24 : Wayne Mackintosh, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic 2009 OER Making the future happen
Slide 25 : Wayne Mackintosh, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic 2009 OER Foundation
Why New Zealand? - Digital NZ
- CC New Zealand
- MOE – Reusable & portable content
- CC policy for NZ schools
- OER Foundation
- WikiEducator
Slide 26 : A New Zealand institutional OER Pioneer Otago Polytechnic -- an impressive track record of firsts! First Kiwi signatory of the Cape Town Open
Education Declaration;
First institution in the world to adopt an OER IP
Policy;
First institution to establish and sign up to the
OER Foundation
Slide 27 : A return to tradition? WE MUST BE FREE
WE MUST BE OPEN Woodleywonderworks, http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/1291468732/ Share, Remix, Reuse
“Legitimate plagiarism? ”
New Development: WYSIWYG – Rich Text Editing : New Development: WYSIWYG – Rich Text Editing What makes WYSIWYG so unique?
Powerful Editing Environment
Enhanced Table Creation
Cross-Browser Compatible
Coded entirely in JaveScript
Dropdowns with Formatting Preview
Open Source Licensing
Sleep User Interface
Slide 29 : The Connexions-WikiEducator-Mediawiki OER Remix Project is generously supported by the William and Flora Hewlett to advance OER remix opportunities and collaboration among open content projects by building capability to:
Export a Connexions page or content module into WikiEducator/Mediawiki installation for collaborative wiki editing.
Import a WikiEducator/Mediawiki page or content collection into Connexions for enhanced work flow and hosting of static instances of wiki produced content.
Enhance the pedagogical capability of both platforms by defining education elements (iDevices) as identifiable components of digital OERs which will facilitate manipulation of the presentation (how to teach) from the content (what to teach) in different reuse scenarios. Connexions-WikiEducator-Mediawiki
OER Remix Project
: The OER Course Collaboratory is an international collaboration among individuals and institutions to create, reuse, revise and remix OER course materials and resources on the field of of open education. In short OERs for courses on OER.
The OER Course Collaboratory is a resource sharing initiative without institutional barriers. Individual institutions retain their autonomy to teach, accredit and credentialise these OER courses within their existing qualifications. Organisations are encouraged to include electives on OER within their postgraduate programmes. This is an important pilot because it will demonstrate how high education institutions can diversify their curriculum in traditionally low enrolment courses without corresponding increases in the cost of provision. It is the educational equivalent of the co-opetition model, namely where organisations agree to collaborate so that they can compete better. OER Course Collaborator
: OER New Zealand (OERNZ) is a national OER initiative for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum. The reusable and portable content project is sponsored by the NZ Ministry of Education under the Managed Learning Environment initiative and focuses on:
Capability and community development;
Software and tools development to improve the usability of the technology for newcomers to collaborative online authoring and content integration with the technology platforms of the Ministry and approved LMS vendors;
Seeding OER content development for use in NZ schools.
All resources are developed openly under free content licenses so that they can be reused and reconfigured for other national OER projects in the school sector. OER New Zealand
Slide 32 : WikiResearcher will become a global open source workspace for researchers to openly collaborate for planning, seeking funding, conducting and publishing research findings the wiki way. We aim to explore and implement the potential of the peer collaboration model for formal academic research. WikiResearcher
Slide 33 : Vision, Mission, Strategy and Values
Slide 34 : mpjashby, http://www.flickr.com/photos/34190239@N06/3242757124/ Doing things right versus doing the right thing Founding member or FTE4WikiEducator Join the OER Foundation US American Graduation Initiative “We'll support the creation of a new online - and open-source - clearinghouse of courses so that community colleges across the country can offer more classes without building more classrooms.” President Barack Obama “We do not know where this kind of an experiment will lead; but that is exactly why we ought to try it.”
: Thank you !