[IAEP] CurrWiki, documenting deployments (was Re: IAEP Digest, Vol 11, Issue 47)

[David Van Assche]

Out of curiosity, did anything come of this... or are we at the same stage
as when this email was written in terms of a deployment plan for curriculum
content?

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > Some comments,
> >
> > Most of the folks running deployments are so busy running them that they
> > don't have time to document their work or share their experiences.
> > Greebo is a notable exception and I am continually astounded by her
> > productivity and quality.
> >
> > I think it would be extremely helpful for someone outside of a
> > deployment to go to a well-run one-- and not necessarily large one-- and
> > document their work. I would particularly like to learn about David
> > Leeming's experiences in Oceania. He may be doing the best job of
> > running deployments in the world right now but he doesn't have time to
> > document his work.
>
> I would be delighted to do that, and so would FLOSS Manuals. Let's talk
> offline.
>
> > Christoph Derndorfer is coming to Nepal for the summer and we hope that
> > he can help us better document our work and communicate our
> > requirements.
> >
> > I will try to make a better effort at joining the IRC meetings for
> > deployments. When are they again?
> >
> >
> > >From Michael's questions:
> >
> >> * Is there anything we could spend our time on which would yield a
> >> greater
> >> return on investment?
> >
> > The most helpful thing I can think of right now would be a
> > special-purpose website/wiki only for curricula.
>
> +1
>
> Earth Treasury would be happy to host that on our new server, as part
> of our Digital Textbooks initiative.
>
> > Each curriculum should
> > map to a course in moodle.sugarlabs.org. We need to start the process of
> > mapping standard curricula to the open-source resources (quizzes,
> > readings, activities) that are available in some sort of intelligible
> > order. Then an interested developer or educator could start plugging in
> > the holes.
> >
> > Really, all is needed is some kind of special-purpose wiki mapped to
> > moodle. No special software. The hard and incredibly *unsexy* work is
> > uploading the n curricula from X states/countries and mapping it to
> > sequenced materials. We can talk about quality, pedagogy ad infinitum
> > but the vast majority of teachers don't have a starting point to even
> > provide mediocre education beyond what they are currently provided by
> > their own governments.
>
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