Perspectives on OER from Wikiversity

Perspectives on OER from Wikiversity Cormac Lawler University of Manchester cormaggio@gmail.com

Wikiversity is both 1. a repository of resources, and 2. a space for learning This represents a significant widening of the definition of OER Also, a significant challenge to facilitate and manage

As an open repository… In an editable environment, is a resource ever ‘finished’? Can anyone edit this material; should there be some level of control? Can a resource be ‘not good enough’? What is quality; what is ‘good’? (For whom, and who decides?)

As an open space for learning… How do we engage learners; how do we encourage them to participate? How do we become people-centred, as opposed to content-centred? (Leinonen, Vadén & Suoranta, 2009) http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/ind ex.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2252/2093

As both repository and space… Is there a tension between quality of content and opportunities for participation? How much room is there for people to experiment and learn?

These are significant challenges… …but ones we need to take seriously if we are serious about opening up education

Perspectives on OER from Wikiversity

by Cormac Lawler on Jul 08, 2010

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