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WikiEducator

Project for open education resources

Field	Value
name	WikiEducator
logo	WikiEd.jpg
url	www.wikieducator.org
commercial	No
type	Open educational resources which anyone may use, adapt, and share
language	English
registration	Required
owner	Owned by community and supported by OER Foundation
author	Wayne Mackintosh
launch_date	12 February 2006
current_status	Active
content_license	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

WikiEducator is an international online community project for the collaborative development of learning materials, which educators are free to reuse, adapt and share without restriction. WikiEducator was launched in 2006 and is supported by the non-profit Open Education Resource Foundation (OER). A variety of learning resources are available on WikiEducator: direct instructional resources such as lesson plans and full courses, as well as learning-support resources, such as individual school portals and funding proposals.

WikiEducator's stated goal is to build a thriving and sustainable global community dedicated to the design, development and delivery of free content for learning in realisation of a free version of the education curriculum by 2015. The project purports to focus on building capacity in the use of MediaWiki and related free software technologies, developing free content for use in educational institutions and elsewhere, facilitating the establishment of community networks and collaboration, and fostering new technologies.

History

Wayne Mackintosh created the prototype of WikiEducator on a desktop machine, making the very first edit on 13 February 2006.{{cite web

The WikiEducator domain announced it would be shutting down.{{cite web

Participant training

WikEducator's training programme is called Learning4Content (L4C). Under this initiative, the WikiEducator project arranges free face-to-face as well as online wiki skills and OER development trainings. In return for participants' pledge to develop a learning resource on the wiki, the WikiEducator community supports them in their journey to acquire wiki editing skills and to experience the peer-based model for developing OERs. The WikiEducator community will also certify new WikiEducators who request certification of their skills under the L4C initiative.

Recognition

WikiEducator was the inaugural recipient of the MERLOT Africa Network's award for exemplary open educational resources (OERs) practices in 2008.

References

"Open Education Resource Foundation project page from WikiEducator".
(2009-03-07). "Wayne Mackintosh – WikiEducator: Memoirs, Myths, Misrepresentations and the Magic". Connexions.
"Article from wikimediafoundation.org".
"Article from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) website".
"News from Commonwealth of Learning portal".
(2008-10-29). "About Wikieducator Strategy". Wikieducator.
(2008-11-02). "Taking knowledge around the globe". north shore news.
(2008-03-11). "About WikiEducator". COL.
"L4C details from WikiEducator".
"Certification details from WikiEducator".
"News page from MERLOT Africa Network's website".

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