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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!
WikiEducator is a dynamic and exciting community of educators who believe passionately that learning materials should be free and open to all. Check out the exciting roles in our community.
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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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".
A new record for our community! WikiEducator recorded 15,147 visits to our website on 7 May 2008 and we're still growing. Congratulations to our family of educators who are committed to widening access to education using free content and open networks.
Our WikiEducator survey of new accounts reveals that half of our members are over 45 years old. The overwhelming majority of WikiEducators work in the formal sector, want to learn wiki skills and join to develop free educational content.
 The Solomon Islands earn the historic accolade of hosting the first Learning4Content face-to-face workshop with support from Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development and the EU funded Distance Learning Centers Project. Prominent WikiEducators, Bernard Rapasia (Chief Education Officer) and David Leeming, have taken the lead to introduce 16 educators to the WE family.
WikiEducator: Best educational wiki! Stephen Downes awards our community the status of best educational wiki - well done to all WikiEducators out there!
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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 community resource supported by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) for the development of free educational content.
COL is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.
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