Scheduled Seminar Discussions
Showing 13 of 13 annotations by Hilda Anggraenianyone with notes matchingtext containing "questions" in forum "A Framework for Academic Volunteers International: Dec 5-16, 2011"Scheduled Seminar Discussions:
discussion: Does anyone have knowledge or experience of the United Nations Volunteer programme◀ | |||||
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| Does anyone have knowledge or experience of the United Nations Volunteer programme by ◀ |
I was wondering whether any members of this SCoPE seminar have any prior knowledge or experience of the United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme? Is there anything we can learn from the UNV programme for the design of AVI? Should the OER Foundation consider partnering with the UNV to make use of their online volunteering service for AVI? Are there other organisations who could assist with coordinating volunteer services? Would it be better for the OERu intitiative to build their own volunteer coordiniation model? What do you think? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
| Re: Does anyone have knowledge or experience of the United Nations Volunteer programme by ◀ |
That's valuable feedback. Has the peoples-uni initiative done any research or analysis on the different roles of volunteers, who they are, why they volunteer and the average time they contribute to the project, for example hours per week? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
discussion: Getting started - Seminar overview and review of AVI recommendations◀ | |||||
| Re: Getting started - Seminar overview and review of AVI recommendations by ◀ |
Here are a few questions to get us started: - What do you think about the propoused role of AVIs? - what kind of support will be needed and critical for OER learners to succeed in particular at the initial stages ( year 1 and 2 level of Univercity study)? - What do you think of the suggested structure? - What else we need to consider and include in the design that we have missed in the initial draft? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
| Re: Getting started - Seminar overview and review of AVI recommendations by ◀ |
So, does it follow that an avi "mentor" would be a resource that a learner could contact after beginning a course of studies? Or would an avi mentor provide assistance before a learner begins. I'm not trying to be obtuse, but in the former situation the avi contact could be part of a course resource list, while in the latter the contact would be... well what would it be? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
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How do we scale the model so that we have enough volunteers to provide a short personal orientation service for new OERu course enrolments (without adding cost to the OERu anchor partners.)? Are their ways in which the OERu network could generate revenue to offer some form of payment for a "call-centre" type of environment where personal support of this nature could be offered? Are there kudos incentives which would encourage volunteers to provide a personal orientation for OERu learners? For example -- I wouldn't object, for instance, to donating 1 hour a week to provide orientation services - -I enjoy connecting with "real" people and get tremedous satisfication from helping a neighbour. | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
| Re: Getting started - Seminar overview and review of AVI recommendations by ◀ |
Starting out as a remote learner is a daunting experience. Do we need to encourage learners to begin within existing communties (e.g villages, clubs, societies, organisations) who follow an initial course so that to some extent they can be self-supporting - and possibly select their own AVI? Can we, as a group, take part in the pilot, taking on the roles of participants and AVIs? Nothing beats first hand experience! | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
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Is there some way we can get an idea of these needs from prospective learners? Build in a feedback system for learners? Have educators engaged as learners? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
| Re: Getting started - Seminar overview and review of AVI recommendations by ◀ |
My sense is asking for advice and input for the planning of AVI with specific reference to "Retired academic volunteers" . Would a covering letter and a short survey collecting the information we need be a suitable approach? Would participants be interested in generating ideas for the kinds of questions / data we need to gather when contracting groups like the Golden Gurus? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
discussion: How do we provide credit/recognition for vols?◀ | |||||
| How do we provide credit/recognition for vols? by ◀ |
Wikipedia has proves successful because of the genorosity of "the crowd." But vols in education want some kind of credit which shows the kind of work and effort they provide to the openu. How do we ensure that every (say) edit or event hosting is recorded on their account so they have a record of their endevours? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
| Re: How do we provide credit/recognition for vols? by ◀ |
How do we encourage informal credentials to be accepted by institutions? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
discussion: What are the provisions for OERu learners/students for whom English is not their first language?◀ | |||||
| What are the provisions for OERu learners/students for whom English is not their first language? by ◀ |
I have listed this concern regarding potential OERu learners/students for whom English is not their first language in the user stories section of Wikieducator (item 20), and forgive me if the issue of language and translation of OER did come up in the OERu planning meetings and I've not yet been able to see how far we have got with this issue (I would be grateful if anyone could direct me to where this may have been discussed). | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | ||
| Also, are we considering having non-English speaking students among the first 100 for the prototype 2012 year? | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | |||
discussion: Who are our potential AVIs, how can we attract them and reword them them? ◀ | |||||
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"Can we propose an horizontal relationship between chapters and partner organizations when these have a smaller area of interest and do not operate on the same basis? If we indeed have an asymmetrical relationship, how will we define it?" | questions | Hilda Anggraeni ◀ | Source | Highlighted Text | Margin Note | User |