Authors

Designers

Producers

Teachers

Learners

Technologists

Continuous Improvement Cycle

Why Social Authoring?

Collaborative Development

Social Authoring Models

Mash- up

Original Scripts

Continuous Improvement

• Online workspace opened by NROC Team

• Content outline posted for discussion• Assignments and scripting templates

distributed among author team

How We Worked Together

Author Teams

1. Technology2. Content3. Media4. Design5. Pedagogy6. Interaction7. Assignments8. Assessment9. Access10. Support

NROC Course Quality Guidelines

Collaborative Development

• Authors post their scripts and trade for peer review / NROC review

• Status changes to show next stage

Collaborative Development s

Reviews

• The team synchs up for real time discussions and visual reviews through Elluminate as needed.

Collaborative Development

Synch + Asynch Collaborating

• NROC team reviews scripts for design & production plan

• Work with students and campus media centers when available for producing art work

• Feedback given to authors and artists for revisions and additions

Collaborative Development

Designers, Artists

NROC produces learning objects with text, visual media and/or activities - using our new multimedia player.

Collaborative Development

Producers

Biology

• Quality Assurance – content and technical check

• Mastering and Dissemination – NROC team distributes to authors’ institutions, OER, HippoCampus and Network members

Collaborative Development

Technologist

NROC Network members and users provide continual feedback through online community comments, forums, and webinars.

Collaborative Development

User Feedback

Social Authoring

Successes

• There was confusion and a basic misunderstanding over the right to use published material when creating an online course

• There was a reluctance for instructors/subject matter experts to work for free

• We needed to add a layer to the process to ensure quality, add visuals and captions for those visuals

Initial Effort – What we Learned

Social Authoring

Lessons Learned

• While we learned some lessons along the way, our basic process for social authoring still seems sound.

– With member support, we intend to continue with the social authoring process and fine-tune the process as we learn from our experiences.

– We think working together is more effective than working independently.

Future of Social Authoring