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A new WikiEducator Project (1)
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I've just put up the first few pages of the OLiVER Project on WikiEducator. OLiVER is intended to be a place where the best resources are organized in relation to specific national curricula. It is espcially geared toward teachers, students, and schools who are new internet users around the world, to help find the best resources. It can also serve as the way to find textbooks and other resources that may be hard to come by for some schools.
OLiVER was started as a stand-along wiki using MediaWiki software: OLiVER Project
Uganda is the first curriculum we're putting up.
We are now migrating it to WikiEducator for a few reasons:
- to benefit from the expertise of this community
- to link to similar projects like the WikiEducator India Project
- it will be more sustainable and generally better maintained
- and the word will get out better
Please comment here if you have ideas for making it better or getting the word out to users/contributors. Or if you have suggestions for the best way to move it from its current location to WikiEducator. Rswells 04:38, 18 October 2007 (CEST)
I went to the Oliver project - very cool...there is an email link to a gmail account ~ is it still live? who does it go to?
--wikirandy 04:57, 18 October 2007 (CEST)
Copyright content? (1)
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OLiVER
I notice that a number of content links point to websites that contain copyright content which is not free. Its legally OK to have links which point to Web sites which contain open access content with all rights reserved.
However teachers will not have the rights to modify and redistribute this content - wouldn't it be better for us to develop free content alternatives?
Cheers Wayne
ABSOLUTELY it would be better. That's actually part of the reason that coming to WikiEducator will be advantageous...there's already a community in that mindset. I already saw some mathematics resouces in WikiEd that I want to link to for the Uganda curriculum. However, as free content is being created and put on OLiVER, it seems like a great advantage to educators and students who are lacking resources and are new at searching the internet, to at least have a "best of" set of links for stuff already out there. So...it will likely be a mix...with the goal of becoming more and more free content...
