Options for Poly Wikis
This shows my current thinking about a way forward for wikis at the polytechnic. I’ll test it with some colleagues, project team members and through the student evaluation coming up.
Draft recommendations
- A combination of external and self-hosted wiki pages will give the following benefits:
Branding and online presence as a leader in Open and Connected Learning.
Participation in a wider, global community of educators and learners.
Support with technical issues and ongoing maintenance. and so on - Teachers use Wikiversity/WikiEducator to create and host their learning materials. Student group and collaborative work is also done on Wikiversity/WikiEducator.
- All materials from the Category “TasPoly” to be mirrored on a Polytechnic hosted wiki. This builds in risk management as well as raising our profile in the global education community.
- A blog platform for learners and teachers to be hosted by the Polytechnic. Support also given to those staff and students for a limited range of externally hosted services eg Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, Edublogs…
- Staff and learners supported to use RSS readers to streamline accessing information from multiple points. This can be achieved through Outlook and/or Google Reader.
- Policy will support teachers releasing learning materials through a Creative Commons Attribution – ShareAlike licence.
Comments welcomed!