The purpose of Learning4Content
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| Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may not remember, involve me, and I'll understand.
The Learning4Content project is inspired by this meaningful native North American proverb. We are building capacity among teachers/educators to develop free content for learning, and prioritize wiki skills training in developing countries.
Outcomes/Results
The Learning4Content project is likely the world's largest attempt to develop wiki skills for education. Launched in January 2008, by 30 June 2009 WikiEducator had facilitated 86 workshops training 3,001 educators from 113 different countries.
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Get involved ...
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There are many ways to get involved with the Learning4Content initiative:
- share your wiki knowledge and become a facilitator;
- help to organise a L4C workshop for your country;
- sign up for free training as a participant and share your knowledge by developing one lesson of free content;
- ask your employer/institution to sponsor a L4C Workshop - by contributing access to a computer laboratory for the training
- contribute financially so that we can organise more training workshops;
- Donate time and run your own wiki skills workshops in your local community;
- spread the word and tell your friends, colleagues and employers about the Learning4Content project.
- connect to us through our WikiEducator Facebook Group page
Blog reflections posted by L4C participants
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In the news
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Next Learning4Content workshop
The current online training workshop EL4C55 - WikiEducator Free Learning4Content Workshop "Learning Wiki Skills" is being held from January 22 - 31, 2014.
Registrations for Current eL4C55 workshop are now closed. You are most welcome to join our future workshops!
Please keep looking at this space for more announcements.
WikiEducator publishes its report on the world's largest wiki training initiative in education: Learning4Content - The first 18 months (Download 1.7 MB)
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation award the OER Foundation $200 000 for WikiEducator's Learning4Content project to continue our work in building wiki editing skills for education and to improve content interoperability between Mediawiki and Connexions
News archive
| Latest posts from our L4C list
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- RE: [GRAYMAIL] [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for February 2015: Anirban Ghosh
- Congratulations, well deserved. Warm wishes Patricia From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramesh Sharma Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 8:43 AM To:...
- — Patricia 2015-03-23 15:50:06
- RE: [GRAYMAIL] [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for July 2014: Alison Snieckus
- Congratulations, Alison. Warm wishes Patricia From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramesh Sharma Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 6:48 AM To: WikiE...
- — Patricia 2014-08-11 15:38:06
- RE: [GRAYMAIL] [WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for April 2014: Dr M Fabiana Kubke
- Well deserved, congratulations! Warm wishes Patricia Schlicht From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dr R C Sharma Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 2:5...
- — Patricia 2014-05-06 15:36:20
- Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for February 2014: Sanjaya Mishra
- Well done Sanjaya! I echo the good wishes from the community. You were an early pioneer of the WE family and I recall you joining the WikiEducator project early in August 2006 volunteering to assis...
- — Wayne 2014-03-03 01:05:10
- Re: Featured WikiEducator UPE (January 2014): Wayne Mackintosh
- Hi Everyone, What a lovely surprise! I couldn't have wished for a better way to kick off my work in 2014 now that I'm back into the swing of things after my annual summer vacation break :-)...
- — Wayne 2014-02-03 05:17:18
- RE: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for December 2013: Hanaa Khamis
- Congratulations, Hanaa. Well deserved. Wishing all of you a Happy, Healthy and Successful 2014. Warm wishes Patricia Schlicht From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com...
- — Patricia 2013-12-31 16:36:45
- RE: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for October 2013: Susan Dixon
- Congratulations Susan. Well deserved Warm wishes Patricia From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramesh Sharma Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 1:3...
- — Patricia 2013-11-01 15:42:05
- RE: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for August 2013: Dr Pankaj Khare
- Dear Pankaj, Congratulations! Great page! Warm wishes Patricia From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramesh Sharma Sent: Sunday, September 01, 20...
- — Patricia 2013-09-02 18:41:33
- RE: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for July 2013: Kamani Samarasinghe
- Congratulations, Kamani! Warm wishes Patricia Schlicht From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramesh Sharma Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:10 AM...
- — Patricia 2013-07-31 17:37:56
- Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for June 2013: Kim Tucker
- Agreed -- A long overdue recognition from the WE community. Congratulations Kim -- your passion for libre knowledge has been a guiding light for the WikiEducator project. Wayne On Mon, Jul 1, 2013...
- — Wayne 2013-07-02 06:58:36
- RE: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for April 2013: Benjamin Stewart
- Congratulations, Ben! Warm wishes Patricia From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramesh Sharma Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:54 AM To: WikiEdu...
- — Patricia 2013-04-30 20:26:10
- RE: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo Winner for February 2013: Sarita Kumar
- Congratulations, Sarita. Well deserved. Warm wishes Patricia Schlicht From: wikied...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikied...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramesh Sharma Sent: Thursday, Februar...
- — Patricia 2013-02-07 19:31:08
- RE: [WE Teacher Collaboration] WikiEducator User Page Expo Winner for August 2012: Sujata Dhopte
- Congratulations Dr. Dhopte, great achievement! Warm wishes Patricia Schlicht From: wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum@go...
- — Patricia 2012-08-15 17:16:19
- Re: Alert about Computer Virus
- Apologies for sending the earlier email, as it turns out, I took my friend's info also as a trusted source. This is a hoax http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/virus-coming-tell-all-your-f...
- — Patricia Schlicht 2011-12-07 19:16:44
- Alert about Computer Virus
- Hi All I received this message from my neighbour who is in my contact list on gmail. I’m trusting that this is something that we could benefit knowing about. Patricia ALERT FYI TO ALL. Dave's...
- — Patricia Schlicht 2011-12-07 17:43:43
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Reaching our targets
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| Report: Learning4Content - The first 18 months - Download 1.7 MB
| L4C Vital Statistics- 30 June 2010
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| No. of online workshops
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55 (as of Jan 2014)
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| No. of face-to-face workshops
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62
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| Participants registered
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4,253
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Male
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50%
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| Female
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50%
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Featured L4C Graduate
 What better way to pay back than devoting my entire life to WikiEducator activities! "I consider my coming to WikiEducator as one of the great things that have come my way..."
My Name is Vincent Kizza , a science educator from Uganda, East Africa. Just before the E-learning Africa 2007 conference in Accra, Ghana, I authored an article in their online magazine entitled Towards a different ICT pedagogy for Africa, that elicited considerable reaction. Among them, was Günther, a renowned WikiEducator practitioner and science teacher based in Germany who invited me to WikiEducator.
I have never looked back since then. The idea of participating in authoring open education resources appealed to me greatly and I still see it as a very crucial step in developing not only my country but also the whole of Africa at large. The work already in place was so inspiring that one could not fail to perceive the selfless and countless man hours invested in developing them.
Today, I coordinate the activities on the Ugandan node and I am passionately involved in a project with Ugandan and German educators to create and develop an OER project supporting innovative physics teaching in Uganda among others. I have convened and facilitated three Learning4Content workshops in Uganda. WikiEducator is also a forum for me to keep in touch with latest e-learning technologies as I keenly follow discussions on the different threads, not to mention personal development through the marvellously crafted resources such as Phil Bartle’s community development course. I now use these materials to empower my own community where I live. I find Phil's materials, handy, practical and down to earth. I could never have imagined becoming a "community organizer" without paying through the nose... and I have discovered the marvels of community governance being elected to WikiEducator Community Council. Bravo WikiEducator!
What better way to pay back than devoting my entire life to WikiEducator activities!
Cheers.
--Vkizza 09:09, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
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