wikiwijs, a national initiative on oer in the netherlands
DESCRIPTION
Dr. Robert Schuwer este profesor asociat la Open Universiteit Nederland (OUNL). Lucrează în domeniul resurselor educaționale deschise din 2006. Este coordonatorul programului Wikiwijs, inițiat de Ministerul Educației din Olanda, care își propune să dezvolte o infrastructură națională pentru OER. Este Președintele Grupului Special OER pentru Învățământ Superior în Olanda. Această operă este pusă la dispoziţie sub Licenţa Atribuire - Distribuire-în-condiţii-identice 4.0 Internațional Creative Commons.TRANSCRIPT
Wikiwijs:A National Program on OER
Robert Schuwer
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Agenda
• Introduction on Wikiwijs
• Digital platform
• Quality
• Professionalisation
• Lessons learned
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INTRODUCTION ON WIKIWIJS
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Cause
> observed success of OER initiatives shown
> 2006 OU, 2007 Delft
> an increasing set of a variety of OER initiatives in all educational sectors
> Mostly by individual teachers
> June 2008: policy of ‘schoolbooks for free’
> Sept. 2008: Advice of the Education Council to the Parliament: ‘Make more use of OER for innovation of education’
National initiative: Wikiwijs
> December 2008: Minister of Education launches Wikiwijs as a national OER initiative:> initial focus on primary, secondary and
community college education> but actually for all educational sectors
> April 2009: broad support in Parliament
> May 2009: OU & Kennisnet start preparing this programme
> July 2009: delivery Programme Plan
> 12th Aug. 2009: Minister’s final OK;
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Wikiwijs: policy objectives
• stimulate development and use of OER
– extend options for customized education
– increase quality of education through more flexible and up-to-date learning materials
• improve access to both open and ‘closed’ digital learning materials
• support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization
• increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER
– Making the profession more attractive
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Wikiwijs: what’s in a name
• Wikiwijs is referring to the philosophy of Wikipedia (using ‘the wisdom of the crowds’)
• Wikiwijs is not referring to the functionality or user interface of Wikipedia
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Basic principles
• maximum (free!) use of existing components of OUNL, Kennisnet and other publicly funded educational organizations
• open standards and open source mandatory
• all OER learning materials and materials for professionalization to be published under CC-BY or CC BY-SA
– In the repository of Wikiwijs
• professionalization of both teachers and management!
• Research to measure effects on policy goals
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THE PLATFORM
Architecture
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Wikiwijs
search
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QUALITY
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Assumption
• Assumption: teachers are the most capable to judge the quality of learning materials
• Not have a treshold based on some standpoint of quality
• Providing means to make quality visible
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Quality measures
• Rating by peers
• Peer review
• Quality mark organizations / groups
• But most important: proficient teachers
– Professionalization!
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Quality mark
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PROFESSIONALIZATION
Online and offline
• Goal:
– Improve knowledge and competencies from teachers in using and creating digital learning materials
• Online: sources
• Offline: Wikiwijs workshops
– For teachers in Primary and Secondary education
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Online sources
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Offline workshops
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RESULTS AND LESSONS LEARNED
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Results
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950,971 Building blocks available through Wikiwijs34,997 Lessons available through Wikiwijs
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Main lesson learned
• Quality, quality, quality!
Development of learning materials is groupwork
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Other lessons learned
• Involving stakeholders: important but hard
• Infrastructure useful
• Development of learning materials is not for everyone
• Bottom-up and top-down should be in balance
• Sharing is not self-evident
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Ceterum censeo materia facta tributo oblatum esse gratuito
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/ CC BY-SA
FINALLY
Any Questions?
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Thank you!
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www.robertschuwer.nl