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Moustapha

Phone: (225) 771 2028
Secondary email:moustapha_diack@subr.edu

Employer:

Southern University in Baton Rouge

Occupation:

Professor of Science/mathematics Education

Other roles:

Director of MANand Advisory Committee of eLA

Nationality:

Senegalese/US Citizen/ Living in Baton Rouge/ Louisiana - USA

	This user was certified a Wiki Apprentice Level 2 by Mackiwg .

1 Brief Bio Moustapha:
2 Preliminary Thoughts about WikiEducator:
3 My Impression about the L4C Course
4 Wiki Projects
5 OTHER WIKI PROJECTS OF INTERESTS
6 Open Source OCW & Repository Software
7 Consulting and Institutional Readiness
8 Utube and educational Videos
9 MY SANDBOX
10 GOAL COMMUNITY PROJECT PAGE
11 Elearning Lions

Brief Bio Moustapha:

My specialty is e-learning Technology and Design. I am affiliated with the doctoral program in science/mathematics education at Southern University in Louisiana (LA). I currently serve as President of the LA Academy of Science and Director of the MERLOT Africa Network or MAN. I represent the State of Louisiana to MERLOT and the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Technology Cooperative. I am member of the eLearning Africa Conference Advisory. I am organizer of the Pan-African Forum on Open Education Resourcesand the MAN–eLA Awardsfor Best Practice in Open Educational Resources in collaboration with the Africa Virtual University and eLearning Africa. Please see the MAN Web Site for more detail about these initiatives. My research interests are in the areas of : Open Access, Open Education Resources and the assessment of the impact of Web 2.0 Technologies in learning design and virtual communities of Practice.

Preliminary Thoughts about WikiEducator:

Although this is only my third day involvement with this excellent workshop, I can already tell that I am really impress with its quality. This workshop helps understand a little more about a web2.0 tool that is part of my current research interests. I have already many ideas about deploying this technology in Africa. I like the fact that it afford community building and collaborative networking. My expectations are to (1)learn more and be able to contribute ideas and knowledge back to this community, (2) expand my network to conduct international research collaborations with workshop participants and finaly, {3) get this community to support my international initiatives that I referred to in my Bio.

My Impression about the L4C Course

I had many ideas for an excellent project to fulfill this contract. MY FIRST DECISION: I decided first to contribute to the OER Handbook project initiated by the UNESCO OER List. Because, (1) I am member of the IIEP Community, (2) The execution of the OER Handbook project is a major step for raising awareness in support of the OER Movement, and (3) OER deployment and assessment is one of my major research interests. After I visited the projet's wki I came to realize that the framwork of the project was pretty much done and that my contribution would not make that much impact. THEN I CHANGED MY MIND: and decided that I will complete a project on Concept mapping and the educational advantages and cognitives basis of concept mapping in understanding science concepts. This is an area of research that I am interested in investigating as part of doctoral dissertations and collaborations. I have been using this teaching and learning tool during many years. I intend to use the tutorial on Developing a teaching resourcethat is being developed by Wayne Mackintosh as framework for designing my tutorial/activity for the L4C contact. Since, I have a good knowledge of instructional design, having developed and taught for the last six years a graduate course entitled instructional design and multimedia technology. I assumed (laugh) that I have enough expertise to peer review the model being suggested by Wayne and to be able to provide him with personal feedback.THEN I CHANGED MY MIND A SECOND TIME : Deciding that I needed to proritize the many ideas of L4C projects I had in mind to, developping instead a wiki for the GoalCommunity, Global Open Accees Library Community (GOALC). GOALC is a project initiated by the MERLOT Africa Network (MAN). The Community was iniated through a collaborative effort between researchers from Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA-USA (Pr. Moustapha Diack); The GID, University of Ottawa, CA (Arif Jinha) and Swedden University (Anders Wandahl) with contribution from Dr. Gerry Henley, California State University & Executive Director MERLOT. The goals of GOAC are to promote the development of open access resources through the provision of software systems to facilitate the development of Open Access Repostory; (2) Development of tools for federated search and discovery of open ressources; (3)provide better access to Open Access Resources (OAR)worldwide; (4)Create a Global Community of Practice about search and discovery of learning resources in support of Teaching, Learning and Research.

Wiki Projects

Introduction to OER - WIKI COURSE

OTHER WIKI PROJECTS OF INTERESTS

Biology_in_elementary_schools

Otago_Polytechnic

Steven Downes

MOODLE IN THE COMMONWEALTH

OER WIKI COURSE

Open Source OCW & Repository Software

eduCommons is built around a workflow process that guides users through the process of publishing materials in an openly accessible format. This includes uploading materials into a repository, dealing with copyright, reassembling materials into courses, providing quality assurance, and publication of materials.
eduCommons

Consulting and Institutional Readiness

Toolkit: Making the Case
There are a number of different approaches one can take to making the case for OCW, and the best approaches are those best fit the individual character of your institution. We will start here with some general practices before presenting a menu of options from which you can make your own selections. It may be helpful to think of yourself as making not one, but several cases for OCW, according to the concerns of your audience.
Toolkit: Making the Case
Toolkit: Addressing Accessibility Issues
The spirit of Open Access urges us to remove educational barriers wherever we can. When it comes to OCW access for persons with impairments, there are a number of fairly simple steps you can take as a Content Producer that can make a world of difference to thousands of people. Below you will find a list of such steps, followed by links to sites where you can find further suggestions and tools.

Toolkit: Addressing Accessibility
Toolkit: Selecting the right OCW Technology
Toolkit Technology