“Educational Development at Otago Polytechnic,” the eighteenth installment of the Impact of Open Source Software Series, was posted on November 28th, 2007, by Leigh Blackall. Leigh currently serves as an Educational Developer at the Otago Polytechnic 1 in Dunedin, New Zealand, and blogs his work to Learn Online 2. Thanks Leigh for a great posting!
In his posting Leigh provides a nice introduction about the Otago Polytechnic and the Educational Development Centre (EDC), which provides staff development, online and flexible learning development, and research into educational development. He also connects EDC activities with staff development supporting weblogging and digital literacy.
During this same period in which the EDC was supporting capacity development, a related set of policy changes were underway in which the Polytechnic's intellectual policy was re-crafted to support the use of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
Leigh described how increased competency in the use of wikis and weblogs, the adoption of an open content license, and the use of WikiEducator supported the development of a wiki-based learning design and content development model that enables content sharing and reuse. He ends his posting by indicating that there are challenges and risks associated with wiki-based content development.
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