Call with CC education team - January 14, 2013
Conf line 209-255-1000 / 270930#
= Agenda (1.5 hour meeting) =
1st half hour
- Introduce the Communicate OER project, why, how, where it's going: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Communicate_OER
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:5P
- basic idea: wikipedia content is basic starting place for really any subject for people learning. wikipedia pretty deeply rooted in OER space, however all articles on OER are outdated.
- purpose: build a community of practice in improving articles about OER and related topics
- initial take was not quite the right one - eg. in-person events co-run at conferences. but we realized that the best way to do it is in much smaller chunks on a more frequent basis
- we are doing weekly introductory and weekly edit sessions.
- Discuss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
- how do we make edits without them being rolled back?
- logo should be changed - Greg had a convo with guy who was contracted to do logo. logo is part of UNESCO event. lots of controversy over production and was critiqued heavily, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Educational_Resources
- pete: needs more context setting for the article. good example of an article that is piecemeal - lot of people come to the article and put their piece in, but suffers from no one taking responsibility for the topic. pretty common to see articles on a specific piece be high quality b/c it's a straightforward story to tell (eg. court case), but not so much on something more general. people who are the most expert are reluctant to edit.
- reassess ecosystem of oer related articles on wikipedia (discussion from previous p2pu course that never took off) so they are consistent and don't conflict, eg. ocw, oer, open ed, etc.
- Wikipedia policies/guidelines
- Work on a specific section of an article to get our feet wet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2PU
- First thing - look through whole article. look at lead section - lead should give an overview of whole article. writing a new lead section is best option to improve whole article. think about titling sections.
- Possible tasks:
- Format a citation
- Expand/combine(?) the "Academic profile" and "Projects" sections, perhaps explaining "School of Webcraft," "School of Open," etc.
- Add a suggestion to the talk page
- Article assessment:
- Use conference line/etherpad http://pad.p2pu.org/p/CC-CommOER
2nd half hour
- Discuss collaborative editing and how it make work in the future (virtually)/ Brainstorming session
- Challenges
- Concerns around an org editing an article, conflict of interest
- Pete says don't worry about it too much: if you are open and up front about what you're doing, and clear/respectful of Wikipedia's purpose as a neutral place, people will be fine with it
- When you set up an account, you shouldn't put CC as your account name; Wikipedia wants individuals not organizations
- On your user page, put a couple sentences about who you and what you're doing. that there might be a conflict of interest, etc.
- Cable: frustrated with complexity to, for example, add a citation (versus word which would have taken a second). UI needs to be simpler..
- Greg: reason for wiki syntax to view history -- no reason you can't have better visual editing on top of that. there is a learning curve
- Pete: innovation of Wikipedia runs all the way from writing an article, to create a new info box, to work on software underlying Wikipedia.. the fact that people are continually coming up with new ways to present things to readers means we're always playing catch-up. foundation is making progress but we shouldn't sit around waiting
- Wikipedia editing issues/questions (5-10 topics)
- If there's an important point that needs to be made, but there's no reference/evidence out there - what do we do?
- Pete: Wikipedia, in addition to being an info resource, can be a window into the thoroughness of documentation out there in the world (that is not necessarily covered by the media). example: world oer congress declaration.
- Also keep in mind balance of creating source material and citing it yourself... More imp than ever to publicly discuss it with other people, eg. use talk page, reach out to your network
- Do disputes usually arise on talk pages?
- usually on articles, but there's a talk page on every user account, every article. so discussion can happen in a number of a dif places and morph from one place to another
- What resources might we need that could be part of School of Open? eg. challenge on how to edit Wikipedia, etc., videos, etc.
- What (open) tools should we use for future collaborative editing sessions? (Wikipedia FC compatible)
3rd half hour
= Course outline =
Who are you trying to help? Think about the course from the learner's standpoint.
Who will be taking the course? What real world questions is s/he likely to ask? What needs is s/he likely to have and barriers s/he is likely to run into?
Create a user scenario:
- Draw the person you are trying to help.
- List 3 questions (or more) that person would ask or list 3 problems s/he needs help solving.
- Describe that person's situation in a few sentences or short paragraph, either out loud written down.
- Example: Till Matheson is a professional photographer. He sells most of his work to advertising agencies. One of his specialities is the mashing-up of different images (using Photoshop). He not only uses his own photos to creates these collages, but often includes photos he finds on the web or in old magazines. He wants to know what the legal regulations are that govern the use of this content - he doesn't want to get in trouble or have to pay royalties. He is also interested in sharing his work with more people online, to increase his audience and find more customers, but he is concerned that someone may take one of his photos and use it commercially without compensating him. He wants to better understand what tools & practices other photographers use and how openly sharing affects his business model.
- Visual examples of more user scenarios: http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/sets/72157631786592049/
What can you reuse and build on?
Do openly licensed resources already exist that explain/teach any of this? Are people already teaching or learning about related topics elsewhere that you can tap to collectively build the course?
Document your thinking behind the course and learning activities
The learner may ask, why am I doing this? What am I learning? Be transparent about the learning objectives.