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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Ceterum censeo materia facta tributo oblatum esse gratuito
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/ CC BY-SA
FINALLY
Any Questions?
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Thank you!
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