The benefits of a TAFE NSW openwiki and creative commons licencing

November 5, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized 
Openwiki utlising open content licencing

Link - Benefits of an open mediawiki and open content licencing for TAFE NSW  , presented at the last FLN meeting.

Covers some of the http://openwiki.illawarra.tafensw.edu.au design solutions that came out of discussions with teachers and elearning technologists on the benefits of an open mediawiki, namely:

  • Cecile Bower’s proof of concept for resource creation - “Briki project“
  • How to utlise Wikipedia Books tool for quickly pulling together rich underpinning content with  creative commons licence in a nice PDF book format.
  • Exporting and importing wikimedia content and recontextualising in openwiki to TAFE speak.
  • Teacher Training in the use of Mediawiki to enable participation and contribution to TAFE openwiki and hopefully other open wikimedia projects.
  • Integrating federated search across open content repositories and enabling creative commons licencing for records in Equella resource repository, available on the open internet.
  • Supporting a culture of  cross institute collaboration in both open and closed mediawiki spaces.
  • Use of wikimedia templates and interwiki linking for cross referencing openwiki pages as a sister project of open wikimedia content.
  • Cross Institute aggregation of  ‘How To ‘ use eLearning  technolgy info.
  • Linking the openwiki to http://wiki.tafensw.edu.au

I think there needs to be more discussion on cross Institute work flows in the mediawiki, it’s early days with implementing outcomes and objectives but I think the proof of concept has good potential with support from other flexible learning teams. Ideas and suggestions are welcome in particular other open mediawiki projects and links to training resources, screencasts for utilising the mediawiki platform.

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2 Responses to “The benefits of a TAFE NSW openwiki and creative commons licencing”

  1. Leigh Blackall on November 11th, 2009 9:27 pm

    “more discussion on cross Institute work flows in the mediawiki”

    I look forward to the day our staff start working with your staff on the more neutral Wikimedia Foundation projects like Wikipedia, WikiBooks and Wikiversity. But I wonder if the seperate TAFE wikis will instead facilitate seperate work spaces? Off to check the copyright licenses. If they’re By or SA, then I guess I can copy and paste and invite the collaboration on the bigger wikis…

  2. sparkered on November 11th, 2009 9:42 pm

    Yes, following training I’d expect that some TAFE people will naturally start to participate in the bigger wikimedia spaces, I’d like to see an online presentation for staff on your use and experience of the open wikimedia projects you use namely:

    Wikimedia Commons
    Wikipedia
    Wikiversity
    Wikibooks
    Wikieducator
    Wikitravel
    Appropedia

    Also archive.org would be good.

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