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

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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?

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Age distribution

Our WE surprise?

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Current roles of WikiEducators

Educator (teacher, lecturer, or trainer)

Researcher

Learner

Manager or administrator

Professional staff developer

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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

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Gender

Male: 60%

BeforeLearning4Contentwas launched

Female: 40%

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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