Talk:Open Education Practices: A User Guide for Organisations/Open education development and evaluation

The overview for the Development chapter needs another paragraph outlining how the impact of OER was measured. Was it just the AKO research or other methods as well? --Bronwynh (talk) 04:39, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

The benefits of using wikis are described in two different chapters - I can see the difference - in the Introduction it is to do with content development perspectives of staff whereas in the Development chapter it is more about organisational perspective and infrastructure, so I have changed the title in the Introduction chapter to: ==Benefits for using wikis in content development==

Benefits of using wikis

* Open access to resources making them easily reusable on other platforms; * Information which is easy to edit, making development much more participatory, rather than reliant on developers; * Improved usability provided by a standardised interface helping to ensure a base line quality standard; * Version control and records of edit history which are always available; * Communication channels behind every level of content where participants can leave messages for collaborators; * Changes to the way staff in an organisation share content and ideas, leading to a participatory culture in open educational resource development.

Working with wikis

Benefits of using wikis from the organisational perspective include:

* Free content hosting; * Free and supported access to MediaWiki software; * Exposure, promotion and networking with other educational organisations; * Internationalisation and dialog with the others interested in educational development; * Collaborative development opportunities and resource sharing; * Open access to learning resources; * Staff development of MediaWiki editing skills that are transferable to more popular MediaWiki based projects like Wikipedia.