wikiwijs: how about teachers?

Wikiwijs: how about teachers?

Ronald Slomp & Robert Schuwer

Agenda

• What is Wikiwijs?

• Teacher support

• Results

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What is Wikiwijs?

Characteristics

• National program OER

• Initiated by Minister of Education, Culture and Science

• 2009 – 2013

• All educational sectors

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Objectives

• Stimulate development and use of OER

• Improve access to both open and ‘closed’ digital learning materials

• Support teachers in arranging their own learningmaterials and professionalization

• Increase teacher involvement in development and useof OER

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Search

Create & Share

Teacher Support

State of affairs @ 2013

• ~10,000 active user profiles

– mainly primary & secondary education

• > 1M downloads & referrals in 2013

• 11,000 lessons and courses

• 70,000 referrals to lessons and courses

• ~635,000 OER available

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Teacher support

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Online resources

Offline workshops

Online courses

Also formanagement!

Online resources

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Vocabulary formetadata

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Type of learning materials:

Professionalization

Online courses

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Developed bySLO

National institute for

curriculum development in the Netherlands

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Self study or in groups

Offline workshops

• September 2012 – December 2013

• Train the trainer

• Three types of workshops

– Quality of DLM

– Learn using the Wikiwijs platform (creating (remix) and sharing)

– Searching OER

• Free of costs

• On demand of a school

• >100x organized

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Results of activities ultimo 2013

• 1800+ teachers trained

• Number of remixes in Wikiwijs increased from 1237 to

2466 in 2013

– Also due to usability improvements of the remix tool

• Number of downloads increased to >1M in 2013

• Three courses recognized by teacher registry

• ~70% of teachers share DLM (was ~43% in 2009)

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Meeting policy options (1)

• Introduce working with OER as a major element of

teacher training for new teachers.

• Alternatively or additionally, offer specific modules on

producing and working with OER as part of on-going

professional teacher training provisions.

• This may be a stand-alone course or one which focusses

generally on, for instance, student-centred learning,

which includes the use of OER as a distinct part.

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• Provide intensive training to a small share of teachers /

instructors etc. on how to get the best out of OER

• Set up a system which enables this knowledge to

cascade into other teachers’ / instructors’ practice.

• The ‘trainers’ in this case might be given an award or

special status in order to encourage them to take part in

such an activity.

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• Set up a national competency centre, which offers a

central place for advice and training to teachers /

instructors

• Release an information campaign and/or guidelines,

which encourage teachers and instructors to use OER in

their teaching provision and, if necessary, change the

regulations in order to allow them to do this.

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Conclusions

• Attention for teachers professionalization is

– Necessary

– But not sufficient

– For OER adoption by teachers

• Mixture of

– Individual and group support

– Online and offline

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Thank you!

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For the offline workshops:Rory [email protected]

Paper: Wikiwijs: An unexpected journey and the lessons learned towards OERhttp://openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/116/pdf