User:Mverhaart

Hi everyone, welcome to a virtualMV (the real one typed this in!!). When I'm not around, I tell my students to contact my virtual presence the virtualMV so I created my web site as virtualmv and it contains my Blog and teaching wiki. (I'm also @virtualmv on twitter). You can leave me a message on this Pinboard too.

I am an Associate Professor in Information Technology at the Eastern Institute of Technology, in Hawke's Bay (EIT Hawke's Bay), New Zealand, and completed my PhD in 2009. I enjoy walking and gardening, and when the opportunity arises a round of golf. I am also part of the uked@eit ukulele group (We even have our own facebook page http://www.facebook.com/#!/ukedeit?ref=ts ).

Education

 * I have a BSC (Mathematics) and BSc(hons) in Information Science
 * I am a trained Secondary School Teacher in Mathematics &amp; Science (a long - long time ago!)
 * In 2009 I completed a PhD in Information Systems with Massey University, New Zealand.

My interests

 * I have an interest in using Web based technology to support my teaching, particularly in the area of personal support - as I believe that we share ourselves in our teaching - not just content, so what we deliver is peculiar to us.
 * Through my PhD I have been lucky to be able to present at conferences in many different countries like:
 * 2003: Hawaii (ED-MEDIA),
 * 2004: Finland - Joensuu (ICALT),
 * 2006: The Netherlands - Kerkrade (ICALT),
 * 2007: Canada - Quebec City (E-Learn), Edmunton(my supervisor was Prof. Kinshuk from Athabasca Univ), and of course
 * New Zealand
 * To find out more go to my profile.

Some basic analytics to see who visits this page
http://www3.clustrmaps.com/stats/maps-no_clusters/wikieducator.org-User-Mverhaart-thumb.jpg In order to help me track visitors I have added a Clustrmap (Started Dec 14, 2011 The page had 4,738 hits at this date)

WikiEducator
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Tutorials

 * Wikieducator_Tutorials

my WikiEducator Courses

 * 2010, July: I registered for eL4C41, a Learning4Content workshop to learn wiki skills.
 * eL4C41 (Course Home page &#124; Introductions )
 * 2010, Nov 11: |Open Education Resources and WikiEducator
 * 2011, 21-25 March Open Content Licensing for Educators (Moodle link) about
 * Home and on Moodle, identi.ca/ocl4ed. Google Map instructions
 * 2012, 23-27 January [Open content licensing for educators

WikiEducator (Co-)Facilitator

 * 2010 (Dec 6-17) eL4C48 (Home &#124; Introductions ),
 * 2011 (Apr) eL4C50 (Home &#124; Participants &#124;Intros)
 * 2011 (Sep) eL4C51 (Home &#124; Participants &#124;Intros | Facilitators planning )

WikiEducator Links

 * Certification
 * Jim Tittsler Wiki to slide presenter
 * }

History using WikiEducator
I have been aware of WikiEducator for a few years and have dipped in from time to time to try and understand what the goals and aims were before thinking of getting involved (plus I needed to complete a PhD). Along side to help understand the technology - and because I wanted to have a web based system to support my teaching - I installed on my Web Host MediaWiki and proceeded to put my personal content online ( http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki )

In September 2009 was doing another "dipping" and found the content page had be edited and many of the Primary/Secondary links were replaced with a personal note. After contacting Leigh Blackhall I took a leap of faith and undid the changes to bring the links back (hopefully this was done ok as its quite different doing a private site or a massively public one !!!)

WikiResearcher

 * Online tools to manage your Research Outputs
 * Using Open Education Resources (OERs) in Blended Teaching: Is it worth it?
 * Attrition in Online courses
 * Comparison of Open Source Technologies to support Open Education Resource Repositories in Computer Science

Comments about the papers on wikiResearcher
Add your comments here - put your signature after ( -~ )

CONCEDE
Maintaining the content quality in a MediaWiki wiki

OER university

 * Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 9am to 5pm NZSDT
 * OER for Assessment and Credit for Students | *Code of Conduct
 * SCOPE
 * 2011-02-20 Information Pack
 * 2011-03-02 Volunteers
 * 2011-03-07 portal page for the OER university
 * high level summary of the logic model
 * 2011-03-12 UNESCO Hosted OERu discussion
 * 2011-03-11 OERu Meeting
 * 2011-10-07 Introducing the OERu – and some questions - Tony Bates
 * 2011-10-28 keynote address delivered by Sir John Daniel and the panel discussion with two representatives of the OER university network:
 * 2011-11-24: Copy of the OERu 2011.11 meeting report

News

 * Channel 9 News here in Dunedin agrees with us -- Information wants to be free! See:
 * http://www.ch9.co.nz/content/otago-polytechnic-goes-global
 * The Northern Weekly in Melbourne Australia also covers our story to plan a new university to bring learning to the masses.
 * http://www.northernweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/new-uni-to-bring-classes-to-the-masses/2082139.aspx

OER stuff

 * OER
 * Innovators in Online Learning Webinar
 * 2011 A Basic Guide for Open Educational Resources (OER)
 * 2011 Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education

OER Week 2012

 * Professor Jim Taylor, University of Southern Queensland, (Video including a taster of the "pedagogy of discovery" planned for USQ's OERu prototype course: Regional Relations in Asia and the Pacific)
 * Vasi Doncheva, NorthTec (Slide show presentation on why NorthTec has joined the OERu network and anticipated return on investment.)
 * Professor Sandra Wills, University of Wollongong (Slide show highlighting what joining the OERu network means for a top 200 research university and blended learning.)
 * Gabi Witthaus, University of Leicester (Slide show summarising progress on the Toucans research project on the OERu).
 * Professor Rory McGreal, UNESCO-COL Chair for OER and team at Athabasca University showcased the new OER Knowledge Cloud.
 * Wayne Mackintosh, OER Foundation (Due to travel commitments, I recorded an informal asynchronous video profiling our international OERu partners.)

OpenEducation Practices

 * http://www.oer-quality.org/
 * OPAL Initiative: Open Educational Practices (2011, June 8) Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klXcdFRak6k&list=PLB97C76CE70220B75
 * Opening Education Event convened by BCcampus Vancouver, 2011.David Porter, Executive Director of BCcampus has posted an excellent blog summary of the event including links to video recordings from the event: http://conviviality.ca/2011/10/renewing-our-focus-on-open-thinking/

Creative Commons

 * Case studies

My wiki projects

 * 1) 2008, July: I needed to find an alternative learning content platform to my custom ASP written one, so installed MediaWiki and started my own wiki ( http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki )

Some thoughts &amp; suggestions from Wayne
(Copied from Workshop introductions page)


 * Are you aware of the OERNZ project which is building a national commons of OER for the school sector in New Zealand. You may be interested in a Bounty project to develop an OER wiki exemplar or becoming a New Zealand Wiki-facilitator and running a few wiki-taster sessions in your area. With apology to the internationals -- this is a project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education -- but a good example to replicate in other countries! --Wayne Mackintosh 11:11, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

--Would love to become a wiki-facilitator (as I seem to have a passion for this :) -Mverhaart 09:40, 28 July 2010 (UTC)







My Sandbox
My sandbox (link also at the top of this page)


 * Open Education Resources, Moodle (EITOnline) and WikiEducator
 * Unit 8489: Solve problems which require calculation with whole numbers
 * Unit 18743: Produce a spreadsheet from instructions using supplied data
 * WikiEducator by Topic
 * L4C Co-facilitator notes (Workroom | Moodle )

Test OOo Upload Components of an Internet Computer System


 * Adding my page to your web site

Some iFrame thoughts -Mverhaart 04:26, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

 &lt;iframe frameborder="1" height="300" src="" width="100%"&gt;&lt;p&gt; Your browser does not support iframes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;
 * Tested it on an HTML Web site. Can be confusing with Internal links as there is no obvious way to return back to the previous page (however browser back button does work).
 * A more generalised format (using MediaWiki MAGIC Words) for cutting and pasting is
 * Which could be incorporated into the wiki as a template with a default
 * Not sure you want every page to have this enabled
 * as mentioned above - does not work in another MediaWiki Site unless iFrames is enabled. Have had MediaWiki complain about the security of an iFrame page - will need to test WE. (I use the IFrame widget http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Iframe for my MediaWiki )

Some WikiEducator Links

 * EIT Related
 * Carol CT | Deb | Steph | Sally | Kathryn | Moana
 * If you would like to put your link here I will drop by your profile page (or add a comment below)
 * use -Shijna 09:52, 5 December 2010 (UTC) if you want to do it quickly :)
 * add your user name here ..


 * WE Links
 * One page that lists all available standard templates http://wikieducator.org/Quickstart_guide/pedagogical_templates
 * using templates based on standard wiki text -- see: http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Pedagogical_Templates.
 * guidelines on designing teaching materials, see: http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Developing_a_teaching_resource
 * 2010 Open Access Week Recordings, http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Open_Access_Week_2010/Recordings

eL4C51 2011 September-October
Hi everyone, if you are part of the eL4C51 group add your comments here - Thanks Michael
 * Sir, Just stopped by at your page. Lovely..Please tell me how you uploaded pictures of Finland et al on your userpage? -NIMS Mrs. Nirmala Parameswaran) 18:25, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Nirmala, you add the images using the gallery tag, and I have put it into the media template to give it the little icon - Michael (Mverhaart 02:22, 7 October 2011 (UTC))

A quick quiz
this is nice to hear from you ;hopefully we will work together