Wikiwijs, a national initiative on OER in The Netherlands

Wikiwijs:A National Program on OER

Robert Schuwer

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Agenda

• Introduction on Wikiwijs

• Digital platform

• Quality

• Professionalisation

• Lessons learned

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INTRODUCTION ON WIKIWIJS

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Cause

> observed success of OER initiatives shown

> 2006 OU, 2007 Delft

> an increasing set of a variety of OER initiatives in all educational sectors

> Mostly by individual teachers

> June 2008: policy of ‘schoolbooks for free’

> Sept. 2008: Advice of the Education Council to the Parliament: ‘Make more use of OER for innovation of education’

National initiative: Wikiwijs

> December 2008: Minister of Education launches Wikiwijs as a national OER initiative:> initial focus on primary, secondary and

community college education> but actually for all educational sectors

> April 2009: broad support in Parliament

> May 2009: OU & Kennisnet start preparing this programme

> July 2009: delivery Programme Plan

> 12th Aug. 2009: Minister’s final OK;

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Wikiwijs: policy objectives

• stimulate development and use of OER

– extend options for customized education

– increase quality of education through more flexible and up-to-date learning materials

• improve access to both open and ‘closed’ digital learning materials

• support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization

• increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER

– Making the profession more attractive

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Wikiwijs: what’s in a name

• Wikiwijs is referring to the philosophy of Wikipedia (using ‘the wisdom of the crowds’)

• Wikiwijs is not referring to the functionality or user interface of Wikipedia

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Basic principles

• maximum (free!) use of existing components of OUNL, Kennisnet and other publicly funded educational organizations

• open standards and open source mandatory

• all OER learning materials and materials for professionalization to be published under CC-BY or CC BY-SA

– In the repository of Wikiwijs

• professionalization of both teachers and management!

• Research to measure effects on policy goals

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THE PLATFORM

Architecture

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Wikiwijs

search

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QUALITY

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Assumption

• Assumption: teachers are the most capable to judge the quality of learning materials

• Not have a treshold based on some standpoint of quality

• Providing means to make quality visible

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Quality measures

• Rating by peers

• Peer review

• Quality mark organizations / groups

• But most important: proficient teachers

– Professionalization!

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Quality mark

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PROFESSIONALIZATION

Online and offline

• Goal:

– Improve knowledge and competencies from teachers in using and creating digital learning materials

• Online: sources

• Offline: Wikiwijs workshops

– For teachers in Primary and Secondary education

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Online sources

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Offline workshops

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RESULTS AND LESSONS LEARNED

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Results

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950,971 Building blocks available through Wikiwijs34,997 Lessons available through Wikiwijs

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Main lesson learned

• Quality, quality, quality!

Development of learning materials is groupwork

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Other lessons learned

• Involving stakeholders: important but hard

• Infrastructure useful

• Development of learning materials is not for everyone

• Bottom-up and top-down should be in balance

• Sharing is not self-evident

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FINALLY

Any Questions?

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Thank you!

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Robert.Schuwer@ou.nl

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