What are your thoughts on quality and open authoring?
Consider the following questions, add your name as a heading and let us know what you think:
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(Hello Mircka! You may want to copy and paste this message as a reply to this post. If you have questions, let me know. --Benjamin Stewart 19:33, 12 August 2010 (UTC) MAYRA MIRCKA According to what I think, I consider that this "wiki approach" is a useful tool for everyone to be in touch or at least to know other people's ideas. I believe that this approach will help us to share, improve, change, or comment about all the world of ideas that cross our minds. Here we will be working in a completely collaborative community where we all be sharing new ideas to improve our teaching skills.
ITZEL[edit]
Do you have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach? If so, what are your concerns? If not, how does an open authoring approach contribute to high quality learning materials?
- I do not have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach because even it is a very open way, you can always go back to check last changes or post comments or questions to clarify something that was changed and/or unclear for you. In addition, I think that you, as a wiki-user, have to keep an open attitude towards wiki because as you can edit other's people work you can also get edits on yours with the premise of enrichment.
- I think that authoring approach contribute to high quality learning materials in the sense that everything is updated. Here in Mexico we usually have to wait 5 years for English books to be translated to Spanish therefore we are 5 years behind what is current. Let us say that English speakers have the opportunity to get the updated information, because they can get books first in English, etc. Thinking about those English books, there should be time to be printed out and edited, and one more time we are waiting for them to be published. Using wiki, specially in wiki educators, we have the opportunity to write it as we think about it, or edit it from our point of view or from what we are experiencing. This is then what I call "fresh information and ready to be used".
Should closed or open authoring approaches be used in the development of learning resources for use in education? Give reasons for your view?
- In my opinion, closed or open authoring approaches should be used in the development of learning resources for use in education because as I mentioned before information is fresh, updated, and is made up from a great variety of opinions and experiences which enriches our work and knowledge.
What mechanisms can be adopted to assure quality of educational content developed in wiki environments?
- I have to say that the code or registration under which, all edits and uploads are done. By assuring that everything you post can be legally posted in wikis, by checking at the end of the webpage the copyrights.--Itzel Portal 18:32, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I think this Wiki is a great idea and an awesome tool for us as teachers because it provides new materials and topics for us to increase the quality of our teaching. I agree with the idea of an open attitude towards learning something new besides we are using Technology which is a great opportunity for us to share knowledge with other teachers.
Talking about closed or open authoring, I think it would depend on every member but I do think using both will provide better context since eveverything is fresh and people can share their ideas.
About mechanisms I think we users just need to be aware of what we are doing and what we could do so we should respect copyrights and do our uploadings in the appropriate way.
Yanahalti
I believe that using an open authoring apporach to develop educational materials is a very good way to work because many people would be involved in this process and they would give their own points of view about a topic and in this way the material can be renewed all the time and this will enrich the topics. I also believe that open and close authoring materials are good for education, but right now everything is changing and we have to change and get more techonological and learn to work with it and make our students work, too. The mechanisms to be adopted to have a good quality is to have an administrator who can check and help others to work with the wikis.
NANCY
I consider that an open authoring approach is very useful because in that way we can see and evaluate many different ideas from other people related to learning materials, although that, in some cases the information that some people give is not very realiable so it is important to know if the information that we are taking into consideration is really useful for our work. This kind of authoring approaches of course are very useful to develop learning resourses for use in education because maybe we can have some ideas about a specific aspect related to education but in some cases it is important and necessary to consider other aspects and other opinions in order to compare and choose the better option to success in that specific aspect we are working on. It would be important to ask for some references (author, site, etc.)related to any kind of information that is posted on a wiki, so in that way people would be sure that the information is reliable and useful, besides that, it would benefit to everyone as a wiki community.
Well, I think that this open authorial approah is really relevant nowadays since it's very accessible for everybody, and we can collaborate with people from all around the world, which makes this project even more interesting, it also encourages and facilitates work --Enidromo 17:44, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Maru Martínez. I think an open authoring is a really important approach, because it gives us the opportunity to learn from others and to share different learning materials with different people. Also because nowadays our life is changing and technology is really important.
Geras
I think that using an Open Authoring Approach is an important tool that helps you to find out what other people think about a particular topic. Moreover, it is a good source to make comments based on the ideas that somebody has given toward a certain topic. I would say that the important thing of using an Open Authoring Approach is that an idea can be enriched and expanded if we all contribute by stating our thoughts and opinions. This tool is also essential because it provides you with a great variety of sources that can be effective to improve the way we teach the language.
I think using an open authoring approach is helpful for us teachers to get and share our ideas about different materials. It's an excellent way to work like in a group exchanging different points of view and enrich our way of teaching. It is also respect to what others think when sharing their ideas in certain topics.Then, you can post some comments about that, saying what you think, maybe your expections or some questions you can have. That's what I think
Adriana wrote: "My name is Adriana and I think a wikie is like a white board in the net which can be edited by its users at different times; in other words, I understand that it's like editing a rough draft for a final paper. Am I right?--AMF 19:52, 10 August 2010 (UTC)"
I think there are similarities between a whiteboard and a wiki in that they both promote interaction. But I view a whiteboard as more of a synchronous (i.e., live or in real time) tool whereas a wiki more as an asynchronous tool. Also, I view a whiteboard more as a teaching and learning tool and a wiki as both a teaching and learning tool as well as a tool used for creating content (i.e., open educational resources or OERs). Anyone else have any thoughts or opinions? --Benjamin Stewart 13:37, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Martha González[edit]
I am really looking forward to learning about and using wikis. I am not very good at this kind of means but I am a quick learner and I know it is not going to be a great deal for me, at least I hope so. I consider that in this changing world we need to be more and more involved with technology, so by using wikis we can get our students' attention by providing updated information. I believe that Open Authoring Approaches are a great source of information not only for teachers but for students as well because we can have reliable and updated from fist hand, I mean based on the experience and the opinion of other people that are in the education area or at least related to it. Some of the advantages that come into my mind are: we can edit and we can also share besides experience, knowledge, that certainly will provide us better tools in order to improve our teaching.
Gisela Suarez
I think that Open Authoring Approaches should be used in developing resources in education as they give the opportunity to work in a collaborative way, besides the students have a quick access to the information that has been previously edited, so they can share, correct, etc. the same document.
I've read that WikiEducator is more reliable than Wikipedia as in the latter you don't need a verifiable account to make edits, so you can distort information. That would be my only concern, how to find a way to verify the information provided.
Ezekiel
Hi! i consider the authoring approach to be really helpful for extending someone's idea. In this way, there's a lot of enrichment from different views that contribute to a different perspective from what the author already mentioned. Therefore, the teacher gets a wide view of content that can contribute to develop better classes.
NORMA ROCHA
I believe open authoring approaches contribute to the development of updated material related to an area, education in this case. As it was mentioned by other participants, these approaches provide the opportunity to work collaboratively to reach common goals; however, I believe we should be careful to use valid information and include its reference or source since not all the information we can find in wikis is reliable.
One of the biggest advantages of OER is that anyone can have access to knowledge no matter where he is or what his social status is.
Nancy Mijares[edit]
I strongly believe that Open Authoring Approaches are currently essential tools for us as teachers, to share, comment, reinforce, etc., any ideas that can help us to improve our teaching skills and to work as an educational community.
De Santos[edit]
Personally I do not have any concern about an open authoring approach. There are not any risks related to the quality of educational resources. This is due to the fact that users are really interested in networking and committed to collaborating and getting to know different teaching phenomena. This is just a wonderful tool to enhance collaborative work. And not only with educators from the same geographical region or country, but with people from any part of the world. This enables the possibility of getting to know points of view of people with different professional background and experiences.
NELLI[edit]
Do you have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach? If so, what are your concerns? If not, how does an open authoring approach contribute to high quality learning materials?
Well I don’t have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach because this a great opportunity in which we can belong in a teachers’ community of practice, whose emergence is made easier by Internet, and which allows new possibilities of sharing and reuse the materials.
In your opinion, should closed or open authoring approaches be used in the development of learning resources for use in education? Give reasons for your view?
In my opinion the development of learning resources should open authoring approaches because it gives the opportunity that almost everybody has the resources for use in education besides this consists of a suite of software tools that perform a number of functions supporting the production of learning resources.
What mechanisms can be adopted to assure quality of educational content developed in wiki environments?
Wikis create a situation where learners are not writing to communicate with their teacher like in a traditional learning environment but students are rather writing to communicate with their peers. This environment teaches learners, the art of constructive criticism and they become less reliant on the teacher for feedback and guidance. Students and learners who use wikis feel more responsible for their content they publish. This then creates a sense of collective ownership thorough their contribution, to the class. While at the same time a greater sense of knowledge sharing is achieved a community is developed, improving communication among the users of the wiki.
--NELLIPORTAL 14:26, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
No, I´m not concerned about the quality of these resources. It is important to know and learn about other educators around the world. I aslo think it is important to share experiences and questions related to Teaching.
It is always good to be updated and know what's new out there. I´m really loking forward to learning more about wikis.
LOSH
I don't have any concerns yet. However, I consider that an Open Authoring Approach provides a great opportunity to work in group, share our knowledge and expand it at the same time while working trhough the internet. It also allows not only teachers, but also students, to share, comment, add information and get help from others since it's a collaborative work. Nowadays, it is important and it is crucial to familiarize and use technology because is around us and in terms of education it can provide us with a lot of learning resources that we can take advantage to develop better classes. Moreover, I consider that we should be very careful and aware of what is uploaded in the wiki, in this case, in order to have reliable information. Monitoring our work is a good way of keep control of the information that we are going to share and/or discuss in these environments.
