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Overview of WikiEducator for DEANZ online seminar -- 17 June 2008
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WikiEducator
Distance education reincarnated ornew innovation?
learning for development
Commonwealth of Learning
COL is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to to encourage the development and sharing of open and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.
Sir John Daniel
“For my generation the great innovation was the course team. For the next I suspect that it will be Open Educational Resources.”
learning for development
ODL reincarnated or new mode?
Innovation of the course team in DE
learning for development
Principles of specialisation anddivision of labour
A distinct pedagogy
In asynchronous learning the technology mediates and carries the teaching-learning interactions
Introducing Wikieducator
Meeting our family
How well are we doing, given all this technological innovation in education?
Kids who won't be going to school
80%
USA &
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Arab
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COL's WikiEducator
We're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. We hope you can help us.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
“Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.And we need your help”
Jimmy Wales
microsoft.com
Wikipedia.org
WikiEducator's mission
Working collaboratively with educators around the world we aim to develop free content resources in support of all national curricula
A free curriculum by 2015 - for all sectors
does not replace closed content there are motivated resource producers who
work in both closed and open curriculum projects quality is equally important for closed and free
content
Observations
Cornerstones & phases of our plan
Establishing foundations
(May 2006 - Dec 2007)
Scaling up free content development
(Jan 2008 - Dec 2008)
Sustainable implementation
(Jan 2009 - )
Established May 2006
- How is WikiEducator doing?- Who are our WikiEducators?- Why do they join our family?
Cumulative site visits
May
06
May
07
May
08
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
19 months
First million visits
5 months
Second million visits
Age distribution
Our WE surprise?
<15
15-2
4
25-3
4
35-4
4
45-5
4
55-6
4
>650
5
10
15
20
25
30
0
5.4
18
25.5
28.1
19.4
3.6
Years
Per
cen
tag
e
51% > 45 years
Current roles of WikiEducators
Educator (teacher, lecturer, or trainer)
Researcher
Learner
Manager or administrator
Professional staff developer
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
72
21
17
14
10
Educational level and sector
Pre-primary
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Vocational Training
Not involed in education
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
1.1
6.4
17.2
49.8
15.4
10.1
Why do you join WikiEducator?
to explore new trends and ideas
to learn wiki skills
to develop free content
to grow personaly
to build relationships with WEs
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
71
70
70
46
33
Gender
Male: 60%
BeforeLearning4Contentwas launched
Female: 40%
Male Female0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
51.1 48.9
Per
cen
tag
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Distribution of edits among users
>1
>3
>10
>32
>10
0
>31
6
>10
00
>31
620
10
20
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40
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60
70
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100
WikipediaWikiEducator
Number of edits
Per
cen
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e o
f u
sers
What about innovation?
Turning the promise of the future into today's reality
Collaborative Authoring
LMS
Wiki ==> print ContentCartridge
Learning4Content
conduct 160 workshops
train 2500 teachers/educators
2500 lessons of free content
all Commonwealth Countries
Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may not remember, involve me, and I'll understand
http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration
Getting back to our DE roots
Innovation of the course team
A return to tradition?
Time to chat .... Questions, thoughts?
Just try it!Our community will support you