Megan Beckett
[email protected]
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Our focus
● Curriculum-aligned
● Collaboratively authored
● Openly-licensed
● For ALL learners
Overview
Collaborative authoring workshops
● Volunteers
● 2-3 workshops
● Each process has been different
● We are constantly evolving our model
The planning
● Community coordinator
The planning
● Content coordinator
What have we learned?
● Diverse group – more ideas
● Volunteers are not trained authors
● Need more than one workshop
● Consistent authoring platform
● Peer review sooner and more often
● Volunteers felt energized
Our newest books...
Our newest books...
Our community strategy
● We want to celebrate and recognize volunteers
● Strengthen the community● Mozilla Open Badges
Badges for authoring
Badges for authoring
Siyavula Communtity Badges
Community Leader Badge
Come see what we do!
Siyavula's Open Education Conference
22-26 March 2013, Johannesburg