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Collaborative OpenCourseWare Authoring: The SlideWiki Platform
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The open-source and open-access SlideWiki platform employs crowdsourcing methods in order to support the authoring, sharing, reusing and remixing of open courseware. The SlideWiki project is introducing the SlideWiki platform to different communities of educators and learners by performing a wide range of trials covering different levels of education (i.e. from secondary to higher education) and different types of learning (i.e. formal learning, informal learning, vocational learning). Each of these large-scale trials is carried out with hundreds of educators and thousands of learners in different countries across Europe.
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... The SlideWiki platform allows the creation of educational content either by individual authors or collaboratively by groups of authors [2]. Additionally, users can interact with the offered content in various ways, such as via commenting, answering quizzes, as well as by reusing and adapting the content according to their needs. ...
The SlideWiki platform is fostering open education by supporting the collaborative authoring, sharing, reusing and remixing of open educational content online. This paper presents the lessons learned from piloting the SlideWiki platform in different learning contexts and scenarios. In particular, we describe the learning scenarios considered in each pilot and how these scenarios have been implemented with the use of SlideWiki. We then describe the methodology followed in each pilot, in terms of the authoring, teaching and learning activities performed by educators and learners using SlideWiki. Finally, the lessons learned from each pilot are discussed, focusing on the challenges faced in each pilot, how these challenges have been addressed, as well as the best practices that have emerged from the pilots regarding the collaborative authoring and sharing of open educational content.
While many Learning Content Management Systems are available, the collaborative, community-based creation of rich e-learning content is still not sufficiently well supported. Few attempts have been made to apply crowd-sourcing and wiki-approaches for the creation of e-learning content. In this article, we showcase SlideWiki -- an Open Courseware Authoring platform supporting the crowdsourced creation of richly structured learning content.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are available globally in many OER repositories. Since The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (http://web.mit.edu/) OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative began, seven years have elapsed. Therefore it is time to consider and evaluate what has worked, why and how we can maximise on the design and redesign of OER for the benefit of learners and teachers. Open Learning Network (OLnet) is an outward facing and open research project, which started in March 2009. Based on lessons from experience and evidence worldwide, the initial aim of the project is to draw in existing OER and social networked communities to evaluate what types of OER have worked well in terms of learning and teaching. The project investigates the best ways to develop new OER and redesign existing OER for reuse. OLnet is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and starts from a base of having a number of partners, to build upon over the three-year period of the project. Methods for developing Open Educational Resources (OER) have evolved from different initiatives and projects. The first part of this paper is a step towards exploring the challenges faced and opportunities gained from different approaches. The methods adopted by two OER projects OpenER and OpenLearn are considered. Although OER may be created with one audience in mind (Higher Education) they can be adopted and adapted by different age groups and those with a variety of prior learning experiences. The second part of the paper considers the potential and actual adoption of OER by the school and further education sector. Questions addressed regarding the potential of OER are as follows: - Could OER material fit into the present timetable of study? - Might institutions provide assessment for OER material? - How would material be assessed? - What policies and procedures would need to be used or changed to allow the adoption of OER material for assessment? - Might OER material be better suited to learning in cases of non-accreditation? Finally the paper discusses two examples of reuse: one of material from DigilessenVO and the other a contrasting example from OpenLearn.
Cases 'n' Places: Global Cases in Educational and Performance Technology
- A Lane
- T Connolly
- G Ferreira
- P Mcandrew
- T Wilson
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