Digital skills for collaborative OER development/Course outline/Web publishing model

The web publishing model for this course utilises collaborative OER development in a wiki environment to facilitate reuse, with the additional ability to publish content to a website you can control and administer.

Many websites use a content management system (CMS) for publishing, editing and modifying content. The CMS avoids the need for detailed knowledge of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the standard "code" for creating web pages. However, when it comes to course development and design, most CMSs are typically not designed for large scale collaboration with detailed version history or to facilitate reuse of the content on different websites. Using wiki technology may offer an alternative, as it is expressly designed for large scale collaboration with detailed version control and the wiki pages can be harvested for delivery using different technologies. In this course, we have combined wiki and CMS technology to achieve the best of two worlds.