Learning4Content/Workshops/Community Media/L4C Performance Interventions

L4C Interventions to Increase Engagement

 * Change Course Name, from L4C Advance, to L4C Something else.... performance?
 * Course Layout page
 * Find a way to incorporate Randy's Master's Project Paper
 * The Control Paradox and Paradigm Shift
 * "the paradox of control is that you have to give up control to gain greater control" I have also learnt from that article that there are no "best practices" -our common phrase-only "useful practices" Thanks Randy., feedback from Njuki G

Pre-Work

 * Register User Name

Day 1

 * Email address confirmation, etc.
 * Use Feedback page
 * Professional Development

Day 2

 * Add User Name, Use Feedback Page + Network with your peers (i.e., remove People I have trained page)
 * Rest & Reflection

The Paradox of Control and a Paradigm Shift
As part of Randy Fisher's (aka Wikirandy) Masters degree work in Organization Management and Development, he has written Primal Needs Gone Digital: Educators' Motivations in Collaborative Wiki Spaces.

Day 4

 * Collaborative Editing...Keeping Track of Activity in the Wiki & on Your Wiki Pages
 * Three Activites
 * Analyse Your Contributions
 * Network with your peers

Day 5

 * Pilot Projects on WE

Facilitator's Role - learner skills development and learner/community engagement

 * revise facilitator's role, from simply wiki skills development, to include learner/community engagement -- because the growth in WE will come from Educational Institutions' embracing WE. Value Proposition for Educational Institutions
 * particularly as some of the nagging problems with WE account registration, talk pages - become resolved
 * also, clustering within course - leading to pilot project (re: Jud-Guyana proposal example:
 * complete OER Teaching Resource
 * strengthen link between OER Teaching Resource --> Professional Development --> Pilot Projects
 * encourage learners to develop pilot projects
 * encourage completing of Post Workshop Survey
 * strengthen link between Pilot Projects and Post Workshop Survey - in terms of engaging colleagues within educational institutions, departments...
 * encourages 'junior facilitator role', to increase online facilitation skills, community engagement.... and bridge gap between WikiApprentice2 and WikiBuddy. Learn by doing - they get experience in return for helping us, and their colleagues...
 * encourage Rest & Reflection, at key levels in skill development
 * At end of course - send "If You Are Message, Don't Worry message
 * Build on Apprenticeship model
 * Develop Facilitator's Training Handbook

Notes about Outcome Measures
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher/MP/Final_Paper#WikiEducators_on_the_Move
 * Reduce dropout rate = increase conversion rate from Newbies to Active Contributors (sort of)
 * Reduce frustration
 * Accelerate cycle of collaboration

Research

 * Randy Fisher's MA, Organizational Management & Development Paper, Phase I, December 2008 (Fielding Graduate University)

Apprenticeship Model
(keep in mind scalability and sustainability)
 * WikiSkills development
 * Online Facilitation
 * Other

VCC Practicum

 * VCC Practicum