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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.
Athabasca University is Canada's premier online university and international leader in open education. AU is the first university member of the OER Foundation and pioneered the first open access university press in Canada. Professor Rory McGreal, Associate Vice President Research says "In education, we must go forward. Restrictive copyright laws can best be addressed by supporting open and collaborative approaches to the creation of learning content." Read more ...
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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.
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 and Patricia Schlicht, to honour innovative user pages and exemplary members. A little belated, but please meet June's winner, Robert Kruhlak and July's winner, Sanjay Kumar Pandagale.
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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News
WikiEducator believes learning materials should be free for all students of the world. WE invest in educators to share knowledge freely. WE are proud to announce the launch of our 2010 gifting campaign and membership recruitment drive. We need your suppOERt! donate now or join as a founding member and give the gift of knowledge to ensure access to free and open education for all.
Creative Commons publishes an interview with WikiEducator's Wayne Mackintosh on open education and policy. "My only concern about OER is when we look back at the history of this inevitable future, will we wonder why it took so long?" read more ...
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 ...
Upcoming Events
Register now for our next Learning4Content workshop scheduled for 25 August to 8 September 2010. Please spread the word and Register here.
In addition, you are invited to register for the upcoming or current free online workshops on WikiEducator as developers, facilitators, and/or participants.
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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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