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Strategic planning for the
project
Strategic planning can be viewed as answering the Why, What,
Who, When and Where questions along with the strategic part of the
How questions of a project. The practical How questions can be
dealt with under tactical planning. In practice this entails
identifying the context of the project (intellectual,
technological, economic, social, etc.), setting the goals for the
project, identifying the objectives needed to achieve these goals,
identifying who will be involved in the project and identifying
what resources the project will need.
Why
is the Learning to learn a Wiki way project
needed?
Since wikis are a relatively new social phenomenon, using wikis
as tools for learning is a new and evolving social practice. If
Wikiversity is to succeed, we need to learn how to make the best
use of wikis for learning. This project aims to be an example of
how a wiki can be used for learning and to refine, develop and
expand on the social practice of using wikis for learning.
- This project depends on the participation of its
visitors to be successful. So why not join us and share your
thoughts by answering the following question?
Why do you want to join this
learning project?
How could the Learning to learn a wiki way project be
conducted?
This project is intended to become a piece of Participatory action
research (PAR), a form of action research. PAR is a process that
occurs when the actions a group takes to empower themselves through
creating, modifying or developing a social practice are informed by
critical reflection - a process which then prompts further
development of the social practice.
PAR comprises four elements; participation, social practice
(action), critical reflection and empowerment. PAR is an approach
to developing or changing social practices. Social practice can be
defined as recurring activities involving people working together.
In a learning context, this includes practices ranging from reading
(the interaction of reader and author), self study or creating a
study guide to implementing national and international educational
policies. These practices include learning in groups, workplace
learning, curriculum development and learning within an educational
institution. However not all social practices are appropriate as
the subject of PAR. This is because all the people involved in PAR
should be participants. To be a participant in PAR means taking
part in the planning and decision-making process as well as
specific tasks.
In an educational situation, PAR implies learners becoming
active learning facilitators. It also implies that the subjects of
the research project become its active researchers. Participation
in PAR includes the choice of what social practice should be
investigated. The action or intervention taken to create, develop
or modify the chosen social practice needs to be informed by
critical reflection. This means looking at the historical,
political, cultural, economic, geographic and other contexts of the
social practice before and after any actions or interventions that
the participants make. This analysis is used to inform decisions on
what future actions or interventions need to be taken to develop
the social practice further. This whole process needs to result in
the empowerment of all those involved. Crucially, it should also
provide support for others to empower themselves from the lessons
learned during the Participatory Action Research.
The boot strap
step is recruiting participants
The project can't take place without participants. However
people may be reluctant to commit time and energy in an undefined
project. One way of resolving this is for an individual or a small
group of people to put together a preliminary project proposal and
then start recruiting participants. The project proposal can then
be developed by all the participants.
The first step is to refine and clarify the aim of the
project
This should involve setting and prioritizing an overall goal,
specifying objectives, and drafting a preliminary review of the
relevant literature.
- Your participation is crucial for this step,
please add your thoughts below.
The second
step is to plan a set of interventions
The use of the term intervention is used because it implies that
some form of action will be taken as in Participatory
Action Research (PAR). The very act of editing
these project pages is an intervention. Interventions can be
anything from simply reading or copy editing these pages to
creating a project plan to creating and modifying learning
materials. Decisions concerning particular interventions are made
through consensus with extensive collaboration throughout the
development of the project.
A number of methods of accomplishing this have been suggested.
One approach is for someone to make edits to the project and the
other members of the project to re-edit these. This process
continues until a consensus is reached. Another approach is for
someone to layout a proposal for an intervention such as creating a
guide to action research and see if the other members will join in
with this intervention. Yet another method would be to reach a
consensus within the group on what interventions need to be made
and then plan these collectively. This project will explore and
discover various methods for interventions and how to plan
them.
The term intervention is used to avoid implicit assumptions,
bias and prejudices in the actions taken. PAR encourages the use of
critical analysis of the subjective, political, economic, social
and cultural context of all the interventions in the project. The
term "intervention" (rather than "action") implies a degree of
neutrality, objectivity and a consensus-driven structure. The set
of interventions is planned collectively with as much participation
as is possible.
The third
step is to implement these interventions
Learning to learn together involves drawing related resources
together through a diverse range of interests, skills, and
participation levels. Intervention is a multi-directional process
that is implemented from the outside in (for example, a new
participant bringing in a fresh idea), and from the inside out (for
example, discussing the project in the Colloquium). Implementations
can range from compiling and classifying key learning materials to
facilitating collaborations between and among learning groups both
inside and outside of the local wiki. The project may also suggest
needed projects, materials and resources for topic areas that may
be lacking.
The fourth step is to critically assess and evaluate the
consequences of these interventions
A means of assessing, quantifying and qualifying interventions
according to their effectiveness toward the goals and objectives
needs to be in place.
See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team for an example
of article quality assessment. This example is presented as a
wiki-aware, consensus-driven assessment tool. This project's aim is
NOT to assess Wikiversity content (though such an effort may form
in the future, most likely outside of this project) but rather the
effectiveness of its own interventions.
The fifth step is to
repeat the cycle
What does the Learning to learn a wiki way project hope to
achieve?
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- methods of recruiting participants to Wikiversity
- methods of recruiting participants to a learning project
- methods of valuing the skills, knowledge and attitudes of all
participants
- ways of supporting participants in becoming
actively engaged with the Wikiversity.
- Develop effective methods of collaborative learning
- Identify and develop:
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- methods of planning learning on a wiki
- a variety of appropriate learning activities and materials
- methods of managing learning
- a range of appropriate feedback and assessment techniques
- methods of evaluating the process, planning, and implementation
of the project
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- on your own practice as a participant at Wikiversity
- on the role of Wikiversity
This learning project will only work if it meets the
needs of its participants. You can help achieve this by answering
the following question:
What specific outcomes do I
want from this learning project?
Who will be involved
in this project?
This project is open to everyone (as, indeed, it is the central
question which Wikiversity participants hope to answer through
their work). As a tactic to move this project forward, active
members of the Wikiversity community will be asked if they wish to
contribute.
Active
participants
- MarkMayhew
- Mystictim
- Cormaggio 16:08, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Leighblackall 07:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Daanschr 13:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- JWSchmidt 15:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- Srinivasasha 05:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
- Executivezen 16:12 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- Remi 07:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- mmizi 14.16, 17 December 2006 (CET)
- Saidkassem 18:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
- CQ 03:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
- Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the
Wikiversity School of Advanced General
Studies, Date: 2007-04-04 (April 4, 2007) Time:
024501 UTC
- Sj
- Pmhollow 18:39, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- Mirwin 07:14, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- --Jolie 17:27, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
How will this project
fare over time?
This is an open ended project. As Wikiversity finds its
collectie identity and builds momentum some learning and teaching
patterns will become evident. The time line
shows the project well under way by December 2006 and workable
structures and procedures in place by 2008. The progress continues
with changes and tweaks and the user base has become much more
diverse than expected. A wide variety of styles have emerged and
attempts to homogenize, stratify and unify have met varying degrees
of success. Change is nearly constant and it is impossible to
predict how the community will change or respond to change.
Unlike Wikipedia, Wikiversity has no plan to reach a Version 1.0 or any such
state of perceptible completion. While Wikiversity is completely
supportive of Wikipedia, it is a totally different environment for
a totally different purpose. An Encyclopedia, by nature must
resemble an authoritative body of highly structured factual
information. A learning community has no such restriction. Learning to learn a wiki way is all about
emergence. As the world and the web change,
so Human communities adapt. Wikiversity's custodial style is more
of a meritocracy than a beaurocracy. See Wikimedia for more about Wikiversity and the
sister projects
Tactical planning for the
project
Tactical planning is about answering the practical How
questions of the project. This entails identifying methods of
archiving the objectives identified in the strategic plan. In
effect it is changing strategic questions like "Why is this project
needed?" to "How can we create this project?", or "Who is involved
in this project?" to "How will they be involved in the project?" or
"What does the project hope to achieve?" to "How will the project
achieve these objectives?".
How
can the project recruit and keep active participants?
So far participants have either found the project themselves or
been invited by other members. It would be useful to find out how
participants become active members of other learning projects on
Wikiversity and beyond.
- To start this investigation please could you answer the
question:
Why did you become an active
participant of a (learning) project and how did you find out about
it?
How
will we refine and clarify the aim of the project?
Research
background information relevant to the project
Project
resources
Even though wiki learning is a new field there are plenty of
examples and reports on the subject. It would be helpfully to
gather a list of these resources and provide reviews or critiques
with reference to this project. Mystictim 12:39, 29 November 2006
(UTC)
Printed
materials
- Bruner, Jerome S. The Process of Education. Harvard University
Press 1962.
- Dewey, John. How we think. Lexington,
Mass: D.C. Heath, 1910.
- Dewey, John. Experience and Education. New York, New York:
Macmillan Publishing, 1938.
- Vygotsky, Lev S. Mind in Society: The Development of Higher
Psychological Processes. Edited by Cole, Michael; John-Steiner,
Vera; Scribner, Sylvia; and Souberman, Ellen. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1978.
- Bransford, John D.; Brown, Ann L., Cocking, Rodney R. How people learn: brain, mind, experience and
school. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999.
- Howard, Pierce J. The Owner's Manual for the Brain: Everyday
Applications from Mind-Brain Research, Bard Press, 2000.
- Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. New York: W. W. Norton
& Company, 1997.
World Wide
Web
Wikiversity
Wikipedia
Websites
- Using wiki in education
is a useful introductory article on this subject.
- Learn to learn is the
corporate site for a learn to learn project being run in English
and Welsh secondary schools.
- Learning how to learn is the materials website
for the above project and is run by the ESRC Teaching and Learning
Research Programme. You can log in with the user name
guest and no password.
- Open minds is a project
which investigated the way young people are educated in Britain
today conducted by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts
(RSA).
- Assessment for learning is the process of
seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their
teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where
they need to go and how best to get there. (Assessment Reform
Group, 2002)
- Cognitive acceleration is
a method for the development of students' general thinking ability
(or general intelligence) which has been developed at King's
Collage London.
- The Campaign for learning
are working for an inclusive society in which learning is
understood, valued and accessible to everyone as of right.
- John Dewey: Philosophy of
Education is a good jumping of point to find out more about the
granddaddy of learning by doing.
- Lev Vygotsky Archive
includes extracts from the writings of the rediscovered master of
social learning theory.
- Knowing Knowledge and
interesting wiki on the subject of the nature of knowledge in the
knowledge age.
Reports and
Studies
- About learning is a report
by Demos on learning to learn in English and Welsh secondary
schools.
- How people learn: brain, mind,
experience and school sets out the latest results from social
and cognitive science on learning.
- Technology Innovations in Statistics Education; Volume 1, Issue
1, 2007, Article 4. "Using Wiki to Promote Collaborative Learning
in Statistics Education"; Dani Ben-Zvi.
- Bruns, Axel (2007) Beyond Difference: Reconfiguring Education
for the User-Led
Age. In Proceedings ICE 3: Ideas, Cyberspace, Education, Ross
Priory, Loch Lomond, Scotland.
Blogs
Project
artifacts
As the project progresses it will generate content for
Wikiversity. If the content is short it should be entered below.
When chunks of content become large enough they should be
transfered to their own page and a link added below.
This is a subpage and is intended to be the collective blog for
this project. Rather than write to this subpage directly it is a
composite page of individual's learning blog pages from the project
participants. You can find out more and add your learning blog at
the Group reflective blog for learning to learn a
wiki way .
Investigation
of information relevant to this project
Planning
the project
The central problem as I see it is how do we create active
learning communities at Wikiversity. I think that their are
numerous solutions to this problem. I would like to explore using
Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a method of finding some of
these solutions. I’ve never carried out any PAR before so this will
be a learning journey for me. The first step is to recruit
participants for the project and find out why they want to join the
project and what they want from the project. This will help to
clarify the aims and objectives of the project. Please feel free to
add your reasons for joining the project and what you hope to get
out of the project under the headings listed below. Mystictim
00:26, 28 November 2006 (UTC) Which page dose this change
Why do you want to join the learning to learn a wiki way
project?
- I want to find out how to do it with my own class of philosophy
students so that we can all learn together in a collabrative,
meaningful environment. User: Asewell.
- I find the Wikiversity a very exiting project and want to find
out how to use it to develop learning projects in the areas of
education, philosophy and computer applications. Mystictim 00:26,
28 November 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with you, Mystictim, that one of the central things we
need to do in Wikiversity is to explore and identify how
learning is to be provided for in Wikiversity (as distinct
from providing educational material which can be used for
autonomous self-study). I think it is a potentially very powerful
learning project to carry out within a framework of (participatory)
action research - as this is also the focus of my own research (see
my blog and wiki). I think I have
something to contribute here, but I also have a lot to learn -
hopefully we will explore, reflexively, what it means to
participate in this space and what our reflections tell us about
the nature of this space and what can become of it. This whole
project (ie Wikiversity) is a deeply exciting one, and this
particular learning project/community has the potential to
become a microcosm of the whole, and a resource for all. Cormaggio
talk 16:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- A "Learning to learn a wiki way" learning/research project is
important because of its subject matter, but it is also relevant to
the larger issue of establishing a role for research within
Wikiversity. At Wikimania this past Summer Jimmy Wales announced
the launch of Wikiversity and said, "..... the idea here is to also
host learning communities, so people who are actually trying to
learn, actually have a place to come and interact and help each
other figure out how to learn things. We're also going to be
hosting and fostering research into how these kinds of things can
be used more effectively." (source) The Wikiversity
community has been instructed by the Board: "..... guidelines
should be developed, *in particular* with regards to collaborative
research. We would hope that these guidelines are as much as
possible developped on the beta site (in particular collaborative
research), so that all languages share a common goal and a few
common non negociable rules." (source). If we actually
had "Learning to learn a wiki way" as an active research project it
would provide an example of how research can be done at Wikiversity
and provide us with something to point to when the progress and
status of the Wikiversity project is reviewed at the end of the
first six months. --JWSchmidt 17:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'm actually certified in teaching social studies, but
technology is my hobby and until I find a teaching position, it's
also my current job. Wikiversity is interesting to me because it
blends both technology and education and I can do it within social
studies...so for me it's a no-brainer. Add to that the fact that I
grew up with the internet coming to strength and I'm sure it will
be around for quite some time. Participating in wiki is a way to
stay current for my future students. --Kfitton 03:09, 29 November
2006 (UTC)
- I'm exploring ways to involve formal learning organisations and
national curriculums and standards into the wikiversity... early
days, lots to think about. Apart from that, I'm just generally
interested in free and open learning and how to formally credit
that with formal educational qualification...--Leighblackall 09:51,
30 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'm involved in introducing networked learning into business
and management education and look to Wikiversity as a fantastic
social experiment from which to gain inspiration and to which to
direct skeptical onlookers. The audience I serve are extremely
skeptical of networked learning, and will probably look at
Wikiversity in complete bafflement. There are some crushing
barriers we face from concerns within this audience (clients,
academics of the slightly older generation) of poor tech-literacy,
the turn-off from impenetrable 'geek' languages, generation (Y) and
gender issues, intellectual property issues. However, if I haven't
already done so via this post, I'm very interested to join a PAR
project. My other interest is as a philosopher, so I'm keen to
examine on what basis we make claims in this and in other talk
pages. Executivezen 20:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- I teach so I always look for the another way to learn. There
are many ways to present data, information, and knowledge so, I
find there is a need to practice learning. I know my topics, but, I
am always looking to improve presentation and material. This looks
to me away to find new avenues of professional growth.
User:Almendoza 21 December 2006
- I am a functional writer with the ability to edit content,
while also keeping in mind the author's intended message. I feel I
am a perfect addition to an open source,
"hunger-for-knowledge-drive", since I have perfected the art of
being a student, or as I prefer, professional scholar; all
while attending Washburn University, here in Topeka, KS for only
the last seven years or so! Who knows, I might even graduate
someday...!"Ifroggi 07:19, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- I am part of a community of volunteers that wants to see the
global sharing of knowledge and learning expand at a more rapid
pace. The curve for knowledge is growing so fast and I see
tremendous strides for mankind over this next century as we
collaborate on learning and knowledge leveraging this new medium. I
volunteer my time and build courses for enrichment programs for
grade school and highschool. I am going to find the time in my busy
schedule to either post the material in an existing wiki or creat
one if appropriate....!"fjjjd 6:30pm, 5 February 16th, 2007
(UTC)
- Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the
Wikiversity School of Advanced General
Studies, wants to learn to learn a wiki way because wiki is
still beyond his comprehension; and he wishes to remedy
that. (s) Dionysios | Date: 2007-04-04 (April 4, 2007) Time:
023201 UTC
- I want to learn more about effective online learning and
teaching techniques using wiki software. Also learning how to use
and develop templates and other software modules like possibly
incorporating animation into my wikiversity/wikimedia projects and
software is a priority once I have some content that I want to
bring to the next level. Pmhollow 18:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- I desire to be a lifelong student. as such I have always
noticed that interactions, critical debate and careful
consideration of other peoples insight greatly accelerate that. too
many other online collaborations seek neither education nor
insight; limiting potential learning.--Jolie 17:12, 6 October 2008
(UTC)
- I like the way of jointly sharing and compiling easy accessible
knowledge (Wikipedia and Wikibooks) or learning resource
(Wikiversity). When learning on a new subject, it is good to follow
a footsteps that guides to the most useful ressources and
activities. When no such footsteps exist, I must walk by my own.
However, I can create the footsteps while I am walking/learning. So
I want to learn how this works. --tomaschwutz 21:02, 21 November
2008 (UTC)
- The reason I would like to join this learning project is
because I believe strongly in free and open learning and I am also
a lifelong learner. I would like to see a system somehow set up
where each project an individual takes can be tracked and some type
of crediting be given. Also as each student learns something new
that information can be passed on to new wiki users. Also I feel
there should be a program developed to make it easier to get
started using a wiki and how to keep up with that wiki. I feel the
wikiversity is an excellent program and should continue to be
developed for future generations.--Dragondayton
What specific outcomes do I want from the learning to learn a wiki
way project?
- I hope to develop my skills as an online learning facilitator
and to eventually earn a living from this activity. Mystictim
00:26, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- I also hope to develop my own skills as a researcher, an
educator and a reflective practitioner - but I also hope that
participating in this project can really crystallise for me and
others what learning means within a wiki and how it is provided for
- something that is still quite fuzzy in my mind, after over two
years of thinking and writing about the subject. Cormaggio
talk 16:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'd like to improve my skills and awareness of mediawiki
editing, and discuss opportunities to interact wikiversity activity
with activities in formal educational organisations.--Leighblackall
09:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'm also hoping that the MobilEd initiative will
work in with Wikiversity.--Leighblackall 09:55, 30 November 2006
(UTC)
- This is great! My outcomes are to prepare me/my thinking for a
PhD in deconstructivist philosophy of education, courtesy of the
discussion. As well as to aid my professional work as a learning
technologist. Executivezen 20:54, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'd like to use this project to discuss specific topics in how
to improve learning in a wiki environment and then implement those
ideas in the content areas that I am working on. I see a lot of
potential for the wiki model of learning, but it is not yet clear
to me how to structure lessons that encourage participation and
take full advantage of the interactive nature of a wiki.--mikeu
13:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- I see a potential in this model, and I hope to contribute (as
well as benefit)from some type of alternative(s) to the "My Space"
insanity that panders to the lowest, most primitive emotional
response in net users. -- Anonymous
- I would like to see Wikiversity and the larger Wikimedia
metacommunity become a solid source of reliable content on the
Internet. I think it's reasonable, even inevitable that
wiki-enabled communities can help shift the paradigm toward an open
and fair community model and away from commercialism and corporate
overcontrol. CQ 12:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- I would like to see standard techniques developed and published
to help individuals or small teams create new projects that look
active and interesting to newcomers. I fear Wikiversity will
stagnate if it cannot quickly create and support myriads of little
learning teams and communities. Mirwin 11:31, 25 January 2007
(UTC)
- Wikiversity needs to become a comprehensive and easy to use
source of information for every project that is started. Users need
to know exactly what projects are complete, in test, and in
development. Otherwise Wikiversity will never have any real
credibility with the general public. Once this is attained,
combined with mechanisms to enforce curriculum standards with a
quality assurance process, the ability to use multimedia, and the
ability to use open source courseware, then the Wikiversity project
will have truly become a useful learning tool. The results of a
useful English language Wikiversity is that it would become a
catalyst for global change among peoples that can not or will not
pay or participate in traditional modes of instruction. Think of
the possibilities for a person living in a slum of Lagos Nigeria,
for example, who has access to the Internet and someday finds some
quality Wikiversity projects that can help him test out of regular
college courses and actually make college affordable while
providing real world skills to help pay his/her way through school.
For instance a good course in Cantonese and Mandarin could give
him/her the advantage to work at and start a local export business
for a Chinese manufacturing firm in Guangzhou while creating more
local employment opportunities since he would have familiarity with
their native Chinese dialect and the written language. There are
many situations like this around the English reading “third” world
that could benefit from this form of instruction. Finally the fact
that Wikiversity can be edited by anyone is not a fatal flaw in
itself. It should be communicated as an opportunity to review the
sources and reinforce one’s understanding of the subject. Pmhollow
20:43, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- an evolution of the internet itself, where information is
organized allowing the most cursory review of topic, to indepth
interactive community involvement and research, right down towards
repetitve personal investigation. The ability to both move wiki
towards this desired capability ( a continuum if you will of
interactions, from highly definitional to personal investigation)
AND an effort to be changed by wiki- to understand its goals and
allow it to evolve to whatever new exciting role it will have in
informational history.
--Jolie 17:24, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
- I hope to learn how I can best use wikiversity and sister
projects in various ways. --tomaschwutz 22:27, 21 November 2008
(UTC)
- I would like to see a comprehensive plan for each project like
step by step lesson plans, quizzes, assignments and so on. That
covers a particular subject from beginning to end. Also I would
like to see away to track each project or course I am taking from
my page, that could possible also show what I have completed and
not completed. Dragondayton
Why did you become an active participant of a (learning) project
and how did you find out about it?
- I've become an active participant in this learning project
because I need a set of tools for creating online learning
projects. Part of my motivation for this is that I would like to
earn a living as an online learning facilitator. A stronger
motivation for me is that this specific project and the Wikiversity
in general matches many of my beliefs and desires. Doing social
useful work is an important value for me. This project provides a
space were I can put my skills and knowledge to good use.
I arrived here by a round about route. I discovered Wikibooks
earlier last year when I was actively searching for collaborative
projects around creating learning materials. I found the discussion
about deleting Wikiversity and the proposal to establish a separate
project by accident. From time to time I'd come back to check the
progress of establishing Wikiversity as a separate project. I
signed up in August and setup this project in September. Mystictim
20 December 2006
- Dionysios (talk), a Participant in the
Wikiversity School of Advanced General
Studies, has joined the Learning a Wiki Way
Project because he has a broad general
interest in wiki learning. As with
Mystictim (talk),
Dionysios would like to earn his living online,
or, at least in the case of Dionysios, to earn a
major portion of his living online. And, too, as with
Mystictim, this specific project and Wikiversity
in general has a certain resonance with many of the core values and
desires of Dionysios. And, too, as with
Mystictim, Dionysios has an
abiding interest in Good Work, in the case of
Dionysios, the Good Work as
espoused by Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi, William
Damon, and Howard
Gardner at the Good Work
Project. Probably it was searching Wikiversity in the general area of
Learning
that led this Participant to theLearning to Learn a Wiki
Way Project. (s) Dionysios, Date: 2007-04-04
(April
4, 2007) Time: 035501 UTC
- ... the route of finding this project was long and confusing. I
still am trying to understand what is the best way to contribute
and intereact with wiki, given time constraints. I have carefully
read through the text, attempting to intereact with the project as
directed. I am intrigued and interested in learning but somewhat
concerned. most dates range from 06 to early 07. almost a full two
years later- have intereations ceased? is there still a community
interested in the useful topic? In an attempt at further
interactions I will seek out active participants..--Jolie 17:34, 6
October 2008 (UTC)
- I am not decided yet to become an acitve member of this
project. I found a link to this project when i was looking for ways
to learn about wikiversity. --tomaschwutz 22:31, 21 November 2008
(UTC)
Clarifying the aims of the learning to learn a wiki way
project
Perhaps begin with a Wikiversity member commitment to the
accurate documentation of information provided within the
Wikiversity knowledge relay, as well as providing all necessary
works citations that support posted documentation. Also, make a
goal to build standards of liability in maintaining a positive
reputation concerning academic fortitude. Making a commitment to
assist others in setting and reaching their educational learning
goals through positive peer encouragement, friendly competition/and
or challenges, offering peer-based tutorial support..but not
requiring a participation quota for any reason. to create a
volunteer based member task group to assist in defining the overall
tasks yet to be accomplished, outlining future objectives, finding
new creative learning methods, to collaborate, research and compare
what has, and has not worked in the past for similar entities;
making sure to avoid repeating any previously established 'learning
blunders'. --Ifroggi 09:19, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Try using the Requirements Writing
Workshop as a framework for identifying the user goals,
functions, and structures of your proposed system. I'd appreciate
your feedback. TWFred 15:53, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Participations
A nearly two year gap in active participation cannot be ignored.
since the heart of this project is participation; intended action
must be stated, interaction solicited and conversation
continued.
I will begin a general search for how wikidiversity projects are
led. does the leader have a permanent role in the evolution of his
project? does the leader pursue the stated project to completion or
solicit, wait for, or delay project completion on participants?
Does an interested individual have the moral and ethical right to
alter or extend underlying aims and intended interactions? What is
the moral and ethical duty of a intended participant to a slowly
progressing, or unprogressing project? --Jolie 17:55, 6 October
2008 (UTC)
- Those are wonderful questions, and I'd be very interested to
know the answers, myself. The Jade Knight (d'viser)
03:39, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Planning
for Useful Interventions; A personal experiment
I will be restarting this project. I will begin an investigation
into a topic of interest to me; I will then perform an action by
stating a summary of my investigation on my home page, here in
Wikiversity. I will track any occurring interventions and analyze
them. how helpful are they?
One natural question, is that when one is learning; at what
point and in what way is the most useful writing generated. Are
question useful? do questions generate more interventions?
Since expertise is a quality that cannot be ignored, the person
beginning the investigation should wield some expertise in this
area. Thus, I being a chemist at a gasoline refinery will be
investigating gasoline and specifically the social impact of
gasoline. I intend to write my beginning statement about gasoline
around noon, tuesday OCT 7.
(it would be nice to coin a word that describes the process of
stating information on a wikipage for the purpose of creating
conversation and eliciting participation from the wiki
community.)
Any way, once this done feel free to interact. the next step is
tricky. not only do I need do know how many people interact I need
to know how many people COULD interact with the Topic.
What you have interacted MORE if the statement was said
differently? did you have an opinion and point of view that could
have been stated? did you feel that the statement engaged you? lots
of people have something to say about gasoline, and its effect on
your behavior and our society.
I think that the statement might fail to elicit expertise in the
wiki community in:
- Scope (appropriate scope for the topic, not too general or
specific)
- Not engaging the reader
- Clarity
- Relevancy
please score the post for the four characteristics (1-5) 1 being
the worse and 5 being the best.
should you want you can score this entry, please put scores (as
well as comments) on the discussion page. Make sure you indicate
what statement you are scoring. I will make sure each statement has
a bold heading.
I will track questions/statement ratio; complexity of the post;
size of the post; and keep track of how many intereactions, the
average score, and charactererize any posted comments.
I will analyze the average score in an attempt to describe the
posting style that yields the best wiki intereaction.
thank you for your help. again please feel free to give any
suggestion for improving or altering the new experiment. --Jolie
13:47, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
- Is there a way members can be contacted so we can all stay
connected? Also maybe we should think about setting up a way to
asign or volunter to do any projects we all agree upon.I am not
sure where we are going with this project, so maybe someone should
let us know where we currently are at, and what are the future
plans. Dragondayton
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