Dr Michael Verhaart (virtualMV)

Occupation:

Tertiary Education Contractor, formerly Associate Professor

Nationality:

New Zealander

Country:

New Zealand

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This user gifted considerable time and effort to facilitate eL4C51, a WikiEducator Gives Back workshop.

> to my wiki classroom

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 am in the process of transferring this wiki to wikieducator but this will take some time as there are a lot of pages!! (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 ).

As in all wikis I encourage others to fiddle, so am enjoying others editing this user page also ( especially Steph ).

Education

I have a BSC (Mathematics) and BSc(hons) in Information Science
I am a trained Secondary School Teacher in Mathematics & 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 and since graduating 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),
- 2012: Italy - Rome (ICALT)
- 2012: Bangladesh - Dhaka, 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)

Some multimedia

Media

2003 Hawaii
2004 Finland
2006 Netherlands
2007 Quebec City

WikiEducator

Tutorials

Wikieducator_Tutorials

my WikiEducator Courses

2010, July: I registered for eL4C41, a Learning4Content workshop to learn wiki skills.
eL4C41 (Course Home page | Introductions )
2010, Nov 11: 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 | Introductions ),

2011 (Apr) eL4C50 (Home | Participants |Intros)
2011 (Sep) eL4C51 (Home | Participants |Intros | Facilitators planning )

WikiEducator Links

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 !!!)

#vmvwiki microblog

WikiResearcher

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

2014-04 http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/2014/ai1ec_event/the-assessment-and-accreditation-of-learners-using-oer-rory-mcgreal-dianne-conrad-angela-murphy-gabi-witthaus-and-wayne-mackintosh/?instance_id=
- Rory McGreal profiled the OERu at the recent OCWC global conference in Slovenia. The paper was also published in the recent edition of Open Praxis
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

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Free Open Learning University Launches at TRU, CFJC TV, Kamloops, 1 November 2013
TRU joins free education movement.Online university combines resources from around the world. The Daily New, Kamloops, 1 November 2013.
Open Educational Resource university is launched, University World News, 1 November 2013.
The free university launching in NZ. TVNZ Breakfast, 2013
The launch of OERu: Towards free learning opportunities for all students worldwide BCcampus, 31 October 2013.
Mooc rival OERu puts accreditation on menu Times Higher Education, 31 October 2013.
Polytech opens a door to the world, Otago Daily Times, 26 October 2013.
Open Educational Resource university to be launched worldwide 25 October, 2013.

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 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

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 & 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)

(: Just send an email or discussion message to Wayne. I am sure you will be a successful Facilitator & will enjoy it too.--Dr. Gita Mathur 09:52, 28 July 2010 (UTC))

(: Hi Michael, ...and I have the pleasure of working with you in your first round of facilitation on WikiEducator in the 48th L4C online training workshop. Warm wishes--Patricia Schlicht 01:23, 6 December 2010 (UTC))

(: 2nd October is the birthday of this great man. Mahatma means Noble Great Soul.Let us take some of his lessons and make our world Wikieducator.orga great place.--Ravi limaye 17:24, 2 October 2011 (UTC))

My optional community service (learning contract) project

Agreement	By signing this optional learning contract I will try to complete my training in basic wiki editing skills to achieve the status of a Wikibuddy. In return for this free training opportunity, I will give the gift of knowledge by donating or developing at least one free content resource licensed under a CC-BY-SA or CC-BY license which can be used by myself (and others) on WikiEducator.
Brief description of project	Adding my JavaScript content
Target date for completion	July 2013
Signature	.--Mverhaart 06:05, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

My Sandbox

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

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)

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 {{REMIX|height|width}} with a default {{REMIX|300px|100%}}
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 )

A quick quiz

This illustrates the quiz extension in WikiEducator

Did you really read my page?

(: Go to wikiversities Help:Quiz-Simple page for instructions on how to do a quiz)

Approx edit count:

4,651

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

Feedback and notes from my WikiNeighbours

Congratulations on being the UPE winner for September 2013!! Well deserved --Steph 22:09, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations! Very happy to see how your page has grown and matured. A lot to learn. I recall your newbie days to co-facilitator times with pleasure. Keep inspiring and adding. Warm wishes --Dr. Gita Mathur 01:51, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Steph & Gita - the wiki way has certainly been a passion of mine. --Michael 02:26, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

eL4C51 2011 September-October

Comments from eL4C51 participants

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))

{{Media|
<gallery>
Image:2003Mverhaart_Hawaii.jpg|2003 Hawaii
Image:2004Mverhaart_Finland.jpg|2004 Finland
...
</gallery>
}}

eL4C50 2011 April

Comments from eL4C50 participants

Re: Hi Michael, Thanks for visiting my page, It is always a great pleasure to come to back to WE, I always hope i will find enough time one day to really come back and devote attention to building some materials, but it is always a case of so many things to do but never enough time to do them. Thanks for the link, it is really rich and I will certainly find many things to use. Take good care --Ibrahim Oyekanmi 08:12, May 2 2011 (GMT)

* Dear Michael, on our Wiki Educator Graduation Day, I express my heart felt thanks to you. I learnt many things from you and other facilitators during these 10 days. I would be in touch with you. Warm Regards. --Dr. K S Ramakrishnan 16:55, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

eL4C48 2010 December (I was a co-facilitator)

Comments from eL4C48 participants

Hi everyone, if you are part of the eL4C48 group add your comments here - Thanks Michael

Hullo Michael.... I was part of the eLC41 group. I am a teacher-educator and have got three of my students to do this workshop. They are a bit busy with practical work and so need a gentle nudge when I see them face to face. Will do that and hope they pick some nice wiki skills under the able guidance of Patricia and yourself. I see you are a concerned co-facilitator and wish you the very best.Oh yes, you have a well planned page and it sure will help newbies as well as seasoned WikiEducators.. Cynthia--Agnes 11:32, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi Michael! Thanks a lot for the support and encouragement. I have been inspired by your motivation. --Emmanuel Nalumenya 6:32, 11 December, 2010.

Hi Michael! Thanks a lot for the input. I really appreciate your effort. I am looking forward to becoming an IT guru like you.Best regards.--Emmanuel Nalumenya 12:10, 11 December,2010.
Hi Michael! Thanks so very much for your guidance and support. Best regards, --Emmanuel Nalumenya 9:29, 14 December, 2010 (UTC)

Hi Michael! Thanks for checking on my page. I am looking forward to perfecting my Wikiskills.--Emmanuel Nalumenya 7:48 17 December, 2010 (UTC)
Hi Michael! I was also part of the eL4C48 group. You gave me new ideas with your great User page and its content. Thank you! --Teromakotero 15:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

eL4C41 2010 July (I was a student :)

Comments from eL4C41 participants

(: Hi Michael, Welcome to this workshop eL4C41. I am your facilitator along with Anirban, Derek & Sarita. We will help you and will watch your page develop. Enjoy this learning mode and ask for help if needed. Warm Wishes.--Dr. Gita Mathur 13:11, 21 July 2010 (UTC))
(: Hi Michael, You have developed an amazing page. Great! Keep progressing, warm wishes--Dr. Gita Mathur 09:21, 25 July 2010 (UTC))

Hi Dr Gita - Thank you for keeping an eye on my pages (and being a volunteer for WikiEducator) I see you have jumped me to Level 2 :) - Mverhaart 10:38, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

You are doing a great job Michael. Congratulations for your first certification.Your project looks to be interesting too. Best wishes--Dr. Gita Mathur 17:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

(: Hi Michael, Greetings! -- Anil Prasad 12:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC))

(: Hi Michael, CONGRATULATIONS! for reaching a major landmark of WikiBuddy. This is the maximum you can reach at the L4C workshop. So, you have come FIRST in my Group C class :-) CHEERS! I can see a great WikiEducator in you. Keep adding & enjoying.--Dr. Gita Mathur 09:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC))

(: Hi Gita (I hope you don't mind me omitting the Dr. !) Thank you for recommending my promotion - and your prompt feedback - it really helps when you work through online tutorials. It's nice to see one of my students also taking up the challenge and currently running number 2 on the most wiki edit list overall! I have been aware of the WikiEducator project since changing my custom system to MediaWiki and always intended to assist with this project but felt I needed to develop both Technical and Content skills before I could offer a meaningful contribution. WikiEducator is such a large project it was hard to know where to start, so was pleased when this workshop was announced ( I had several of my colleagues email me the details)--Mverhaart 10:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC))

(: Hi Michael - Congratulations on your WikiBuddy certification - VERY cool! Have no idea about any sort of collaborative project though, will have to have a brainstorm at some stage :-) --Hesperidesnz 21:10, 28 July 2010 (UTC))

* Hello Michael, for me as your Group C facilitator, it is a pleasure to see that you have developed such a nice userpage. I look forward to reading your contributions here. Warm wishes--Dr. Gita Mathur 13:23, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

* Hi Micheal , Thanks for your comments . I would like to know how we can work together on a project in wiki. I look forward to collaborative editing.

References

Mverhaart. (2025). In WikiEducator. Retrieved January 19, 2025, from https://wikieducator.org/Mverhaart (zotero)

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

Rezelki (talk) 04:08, 7 March 2015 (UTC) Richard was here

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