Wikiwijs: how about teachers? Ronald Slomp & Robert Schuwer
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Wikiwijs: how about teachers?
Ronald Slomp & Robert Schuwer
Agenda
• What is Wikiwijs?
• Teacher support
• Results
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CC-BY Hester Jelgerhuis
What is Wikiwijs?
Characteristics
• National program OER
• Initiated by Minister of Education, Culture and Science
• 2009 – 2013
• All educational sectors
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Objectives
• Stimulate development and use of OER
• Improve access to both open and ‘closed’ digital learning materials
• Support teachers in arranging their own learningmaterials and professionalization
• Increase teacher involvement in development and useof OER
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Search
Create & Share
Teacher Support
State of affairs @ 2013
• ~10,000 active user profiles
– mainly primary & secondary education
• > 1M downloads & referrals in 2013
• 11,000 lessons and courses
• 70,000 referrals to lessons and courses
• ~635,000 OER available
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Teacher support
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Online resources
Offline workshops
Online courses
Also formanagement!
Online resources
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Vocabulary formetadata
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Type of learning materials:
Professionalization
Online courses
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Developed bySLO
National institute for
curriculum development in the Netherlands
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Self study or in groups
Offline workshops
• September 2012 – December 2013
• Train the trainer
• Three types of workshops
– Quality of DLM
– Learn using the Wikiwijs platform (creating (remix) and sharing)
– Searching OER
• Free of costs
• On demand of a school
• >100x organized
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Results of activities ultimo 2013
• 1800+ teachers trained
• Number of remixes in Wikiwijs increased from 1237 to
2466 in 2013
– Also due to usability improvements of the remix tool
• Number of downloads increased to >1M in 2013
• Three courses recognized by teacher registry
• ~70% of teachers share DLM (was ~43% in 2009)
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Meeting policy options (1)
• Introduce working with OER as a major element of
teacher training for new teachers.
• Alternatively or additionally, offer specific modules on
producing and working with OER as part of on-going
professional teacher training provisions.
• This may be a stand-alone course or one which focusses
generally on, for instance, student-centred learning,
which includes the use of OER as a distinct part.
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Meeting policy options (2)
• Provide intensive training to a small share of teachers /
instructors etc. on how to get the best out of OER
• Set up a system which enables this knowledge to
cascade into other teachers’ / instructors’ practice.
• The ‘trainers’ in this case might be given an award or
special status in order to encourage them to take part in
such an activity.
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Meeting policy options (3)
• Set up a national competency centre, which offers a
central place for advice and training to teachers /
instructors
• Release an information campaign and/or guidelines,
which encourage teachers and instructors to use OER in
their teaching provision and, if necessary, change the
regulations in order to allow them to do this.
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Conclusions
• Attention for teachers professionalization is
– Necessary
– But not sufficient
– For OER adoption by teachers
• Mixture of
– Individual and group support
– Online and offline
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Thank you!
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For the offline workshops:Rory [email protected]
Paper: Wikiwijs: An unexpected journey and the lessons learned towards OERhttp://openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/116/pdf
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