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Welcome to WikiEducator
Just Try It! Our community will support you
We're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. We hope you will join us.
The purpose of WikiEducator
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The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:
- planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;
- development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;
- work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.
- networking on funding proposals developed as free content.
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Join us today ~ You'll be glad you did!
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Please join us in developing free and open educational content for the world!
Get started today and register now for free wiki training.
WikiEducator is a dynamic and exciting community of educators who believe passionately that learning materials should be free and open to all. Listen to Desmond Tutu on freedom in education and check out the exciting roles in our community.
Featured institution
Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand -- a signatory of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration -- is fast becoming a global leader implementing a quantum shift for sustainable education on multiple fronts, including open education. WikiEducator acknowledges the foresight of Otago Polytechnic to implement an IP policy for our times, which in partnership with WikiEducator has advanced open learning at Otago Poly.
Featured WikiEducator User Page: Abdul Halim
WikiEducator honours its stellar members and innovative community in different ways. We are proud of our fabulous members from all over the world and the contributions they have made to this project. The User Page Expo Award is a monthly feature maintained by Nellie Deutsch, Patricia Schlicht and Peter Rawsthorne to honour innovative user pages and exemplary members. Meet November's winner, Abdul Halim.
Get Involved ~ There are so many ways...
Talk to us ~ and share your interests
We will connect you with a WikiNeighbour, so you'll feel right at home, right away. Contact Us Now!
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In the news
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Upcoming Events
Register now for the 32nd online Learning4Content workshop. This free workshop will run from November 23 - December 6, 2009.
In addition, you are invited to register for the upcoming or current free online workshops on WikiEducator as developers, facilitators, and/or participants.
News
The OER Foundation poised to become an international leader in open education. The Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation was officially launched on 17 September 2009 by Dr Robin Day, Chair of the board of Directors of the OER Foundation to coincide with Software Freedom Day. WikiEducators around the world joined the OER Foundation in signing the Cape Town Open Education Declaration to mark the launch of this new not-for-profit. Read more ...
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, award the OER Foundation $200,000 to support WikiEducator to improve content interoperability and further support for training through the Learning4Content project.
The India Chapter of WikiEducator has been formally launched in a function at India International Centre on the 15th November 2008. The event was organised by Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) in association with GKP, OWSA and Acharya Narendra Dev College. The India Chapter will draw on the nation's rich educational history to build resources specific to that context and in Indian languages.
WikiEducator acknowledges Otago Polytechnic as a featured institution. Read more about their IP policy, and how WikiEducator has helped advance open learning at the institution
Time to celebrate again! The MERLOT Africa Network (MAN) will pay tribute to WikiEducator at eLearning Africa as an inaugural recipient of the awards for Exemplary Open Education Resource (OER) practices. Our community will be acknowledged for the "pioneering role of the WikiEducator project as a model of content authoring and professional development that supports the OER movement".
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You are invited to watch the video recordings of the previous live online events for June 2009.
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Our community values...
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We believe:
- In the social inclusion and participation of all people in our networked society (Access to ICTs is a fundamental right of knowledge citizens - not an excuse for using old technologies).
- In the freedoms of all educators to teach with the technologies and contents of their choice, hence our commitment to Free/Libre and Open Source technology tools and free content.
- That educational content is unique - and by working together we can improve the technologies we use as well as the reusability of digital learning resources.
- In a forward-looking disposition working together to find appropriate and sustainable solutions for e-learning futures.
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Contact us!
- Comments, ideas or questions? We would love to hear from you! If you want to connect directly with a WikiEducator, please click here. Also, please be sure to visit our discussion venues.
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| WikiEducator is a global community resource supported by the Open Education Resource Foundation, an independent non-profit based at Otago Polytechnic for the development of free educational content. The WikiEducator servers are hosted by Athabasca University. The Commonwealth of Learning provides financial support to the OER Foundation.
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