NZ/EIT/Open Education Resources and WikiEducator

Overview

As a teacher in the 21st century, you work within a global community of educators who share their content online as open educational resources (OER). Leading experts and experienced practitioners share their lectures, resources, learning activities and work online every day and access to these can be of enormous benefit to you and your students. How do you find open educational content? How do you use it? And how do you share your content? This is a hands-on workshop covering an introduction to OER, the use of wikis in EIT Online (Moodle) and the use of a mass open wiki like Wikieducator and/or Wikipedia.

Objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to: Search & browse at least 3 OER repositories Distinguish between Creative Commons copyright and traditional copyright Describe what is meant by a wiki and how it differs from other collaboration tools such as a forum Write with others and add links to a wiki in Moodle (EITOnline) List several online wikis Describe WikiEducator and Open Educational Resources Create a user profile in WikiEducator List other web based tools that complement a wiki

Session: 2010, November 11

• Facilitators: Michael Verhaart ( Mverhaart ) and Joyce Seitzinger ( catspyjamasnz )
• Participants:

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

• What's so good about Open Educational Resources? Steve Wheeler sets out the benefits of OER

Where do you find OER or Open Content?

• OER Commons ( http://www.oercommons.org )
• Open Textbooks ( http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org )
• Open Access Journals ( http://www.doaj.org )
• OpenCourseWare Consortium ( http://www.ocwconsortium.org )
• MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm )
• University of South Queensland ( http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ )
• Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/ )
• MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching ( http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm )
• YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com ) - Yes there are truckloads of videos for education here as well
• Flickr Creative Commons ( http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ ) - Images shared under creative commons license
• Peer to Peer University P2PU - Open community encouraging peer learning, collaboration and participation

Copyright (Creative Commons)

• Creative Commons Spectrum of Rights excellent slideshow explaining how creative commons licenses are set up
• Creative commons licences
  • from the CC web site
• Copyright and Fair dealing
  • My Copyright notes - includes New Zealand references
• Otago Polytechnic Creative Commons case study

What is a wiki?

• Brief overview
• Wikis in Plain English Excellent explanation of wikis in Lee Lefever's Common Craft series

• Wiki. (2010, November 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiki

The EIT Online (Moodle) Wiki

• What is it?
• Notes on use
  • Only one person can edit. Other participant is locked out so they don't overwrite. This means if someone stays on edit page no one else can edit.
  • No discussion page
  • Adding multimedia can challenge participant's ICT skills
• How can they be used in EITOnline (Moodle)
  • Organise groups
  • Organise presentation times
  • Organise student/topic lists
  • Student collaboratively write article
  • Students collaboratively answer a series of questions
  • Self-assessment for online participation

• Wiki course on EIT Online
• Moodle Wiki Documentation
• How to set up a wiki in Moodle

Activity

Form a group - preferably a pair. Tell your facilitator who you're working with. They will set up a wiki page for you. Choose a topic related to your teaching (if in different areas, agree on one topic). In your EIT Online wiki (Moodle) page, add One paragraph on wikipedia that summarises the topic (reference this) Links to 3-4 resources from the various OER repositories about that topic Try linking some multimedia too, eg an image from wiki-commons or a YouTube video Each person is to add one comment to the wiki - using different computers!!

Examples of online wikis

• WikiEducator ( http://wikieducator.org )
• WikiVersity ( http://wikiversity.org/ )
• WikiCommons ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/ )
• Wikipedia ( http://wikipedia.org )
• VirtualMV, Michael's extreme wiki ( http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki )

WikiEducator and OER

• Brief overview
• WikiEducator Help
• Wiki syntax Quick Wiki Guide

Activity

In WikiEducator Create a userID Quick wiki syntax Add something about yourself Create a wikilink NZ/EIT/---- to transfer your EITOnline (Moodle) wiki onto - This link should be the same for all members in your group. Extension Add the wikilinks for other groups to your profile page also. Make a change to someone elses wiki!

Other tools and resources mentioned

• Google Docs ( http://docs.google.com allows documents to be shared but only to people you nominate)
• Blogs (http://www.wordpress.com , Google's blogger )
• Zoomit (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx, the zoom in and draw tool)
• Clay Shirky's books
  • Here Comes Everybody
  • Cognitive Surplus

Wrap-up

• How do you see you could use a wiki in your classes?

References

NZ/EIT/Open Education Resources and WikiEducator. (2024). In WikiEducator. Retrieved April 16, 2024, from https://wikieducator.org/NZ/EIT/Open_Education_Resources_and_WikiEducator    (zotero)