Community building and collaborative authoring are key features of the Siyavula business plan and sustainability model. These processes provide a superb opportunity to address the need for training within the teaching sector in South Africa. Through collaborative authoring Siyavula is driving a successful professional development programme for educators in South Africa that simultaneously strengthens communities of practice, improves IT-literacy and expands content knowledge. These skills are recognised using a badge system built on the Open Badge Infrastructure. I will cover the full scope of the community strategy, the assessment protocol for awarding of badges and the impact in the broader education sector.

1. Megan Beckett
megan@siyavula.com

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Our focus
Community

3. Overview
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Curriculum-aligned
Collaboratively
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Openly-licensed
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For ALL learners

4. Our books so far…

5. Collaborative authoring workshops
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Volunteers
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2-3 workshops
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Each process has been different
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We are constantly evolving our model

6. The planning
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Community coordinator

7. The planning
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Content coordinator

8. The workshops

9. What have we learned?
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Diverse group – more ideas
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Volunteers are not trained authors
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Need more than one workshop
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Consistent authoring platform
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Peer review sooner and more often
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Volunteers felt energized

10. Our newest books...

11. Our newest books...

12. Our community strategy
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We want to celebrate and recognize
volunteers
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Strengthen the community
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Mozilla Open Badges

13. Badges for authoring

14. Badges for authoring

15. Siyavula Communtity Badges

16. OER Sharer Badge

17. Community Leader Badge

18. Awarding badges

19. Come see what we do!
Siyavula's Open Education
Conference
22-26 March 2013, Johannesburg

20. www.siyavula.com