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.

1. Wikiwijs:
A National Program on OER
Robert Schuwer

2. Agenda
• Introduction on Wikiwijs
• Digital platform
• Quality
• Professionalisation
• Lessons learned
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3. INTRODUCTION ON
WIKIWIJS
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4. 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’
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. THE PLATFORM
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10. Architecture
search
Wikiwijs
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15. QUALITY
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16. 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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17. Quality measures
• Rating by peers
• Peer review
• Quality mark organizations / groups
• But most important: proficient teachers
– Professionalization!
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18. Quality mark
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19. PROFESSIONALIZATION
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20. 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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21. Online sources
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22. Offline workshops
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23. RESULTS AND
LESSONS LEARNED
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24. Results
950,971 Building blocks available through Wikiwijs
34,997 Lessons available through Wikiwijs
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25. Main lesson learned
• Quality, quality, quality!
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26. Development of learning materials is groupwork
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27. Other lessons learned
•
Involving stakeholders: important but hard
•
Infrastructure useful
•
Development of learning materials is not for everyone
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Bottom-up and top-down should be in balance
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Sharing is not self-evident
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28. FINALLY
Ceterum censeo materia facta tributo oblatum esse gratuito
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/ CC BY-SA

29. Any Questions?
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30. Thank you!
www.robertschuwer.nl
Robert.Schuwer@ou.nl
@fagottissimo
linkedin.com/in/robertschuwer
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