Re: COSL OER Handbook project on WikiEducator

Peter:

A collaboration with Teemu's course would be great ... and timely. I've just
gone through a lengthy and somewhat strenuous candidacy for Custodianship
(sysop) status on Wikiversity partially on a platform of encouraging
collaboration between the two projects so I'd love to see a nice
cross-pollinating learning project like this benefit both projects. Leigh,
can you perhaps suggest to Teemu some way that students on his course might
use WikiEducator as a space to develop some free content, namely this OER
handbook. I know that currently on the Wikiversity course he is encouraging
the use of blogs but perhaps some work on Wikieducator could also be built
in. I'll try to talk it up a bit on IRC with JWSchmidt and contact Cormac
Lawler as well.

brent.

On Jan 25, 2008 5:54 AM, Peter 
<prawsthorne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> This is an excellent idea. A handbook or course on OER creation is a
> very timely thing. I have a few things you may want to consider;
>
> 1) using http://edublogs.org/ as the hosting environment. It has a
> more educational focus and is based on open source (wordpress). I
> believe you may want to consider blogger is proprietary and not based
> on open source. I believe OER projects should choose open software
> first.
> 2) Why not approach Teemu and offer to co-author his course, which in
> the end will become the handbook. I don't see duplication of effort
> the best thing for EOR we need collaboration.
>
> http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Composing_free_and_open_online_educational_resources
> 3) consider a related paper I wrote on this subject a couple of months
> ago; http://www.rawsthorne.org/docs/PeterRawsthorne.OERProgram.pdf
>
> My $0.02. please take these as suggestions for consideration...
>
> Peter
>
> On Jan 23, 3:06 pm, mackiwg <WMackint...-GAVDuV57cUE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi friends,
> >
> > Please check out the latest blog post on the OER Handbook project:
> >
> > (http://oerhandbook.blogspot.com/).
> >
> > The purpose of the handbook is to create a guide for those who are
> > just getting started in the creation of OER.
> >
> > This is an exciting project and I look forward to WikiEducators from
> > around the world contributing our experiences in help author and
> > review this text.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Wayne
> >
>


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