Randy FisherOctober 15, 2009

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Building Sustainable Projects and CommunitiesBuilding Sustainable Projects and Communities

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Sustainability

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"Community spirit is the most sustainable and renewable energy there is."

- Rock Radovan, President, Sustainable Ottawa

Open Education is…

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…a sustainable and renewable resource.

Open Education is about…

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Building Community…

WikiEducator

We're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. We hope you can help us.

Voted best educational wiki, Steven Downes, Dec 2007

Inaugural recipient of the award for Exemplary Open Education Resource (OER) practices

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Strategic plan

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Randy Fisher, International Centre for Open Education, 2009

WikiEducator

A Community of Shared Interests

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Learning4Content workshops

100 workshops

110 countries

18 months

Learning4Content

> 3,500 educators

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Age distribution

Our WE surprise?

<15

15-2

4

25-3

4

35-4

4

45-5

4

55-6

4

>65

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

0

5.4

18

25.5

28.1

19.4

3.6

Years

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50% > 45 years

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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

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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

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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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71

70

70

46

33

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Open, Self-Organizing Communities

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“The great thing about open self-organizing communities is that spontaneous and more structured approaches can be nurtured in parallel with each other in the wiki.

The glue which keeps this together and provides positive direction for the WE project are our community values. Ultimately, the core value of sharing knowledge freely.”

-- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Founder, WikiEd Project

Community Purpose – CP4 Model

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• Model developed by the US Military • Uses 4 overlapping elements to describe

a community's purpose:

1. Content - educational resources, learning resources, etc.

2. Connections - networks, communities, relationships

3. Conversations - dialogue in groups 4. Context - background, history,

orientation

WikiEducator

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• Website: http://www.wikieducator.org

• Projects & Initiatives

• Otago Polytechnic, NZ

• Discussion Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator

• 4Cs - Content, Connections, Conversations, Content

Community Media CoP

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• Website: http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_Media

• Discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/community-media

• 4Cs - Content, Connections, Conversations, Content

LearnShare HIV/AIDS Africa

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HIV/AIDS Experts & Community Radio Practitioners http://www.wikieducator.org/HIVAIDS_Portal

• Workshop Materials

• Partners• Commonwealth of Learning, Canada

• International AIDS Society, Switzerland• EcoNews Africa, Kenya• World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC)

• 4Cs - Content, Connections, Conversations, Content

Join us in making the OER futures happen

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WikiEducator & OER Foundation

Randy Fisher, International Centre for Open Education, 2009

The OER Foundation

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Links & Resources

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• Heywire8 Think Tank, NZ

• OER Foundation FAQs • Teacher Collaboration Portal

Short videos

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• Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A Call for Freedom, at the opening of a Digital Freedom Exposition conference (2007) at the University of the West Cape, South Africa.

• Educators Motivations in Open Wiki Spaces, Randy Fisher’s MA Thesis

• The Wiki Wiki

Q&As

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Randy Fisher (aka Wikirandy)

Senior Consultant & Facilitator

• Intersol Group, Canada• International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand

+1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST)wikirandy@intersol.ca

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