Open Schools

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Our learning society. A classroom in Kuito, Angola.

Image courtesy of Living in Kuito

Rural school, Bangladesh.

Image courtesy of mknobil

Open Schools is a community node of WikiEducators working together on the development of materials for school-level education that can be reused, remixed and repurposed without restriction.

Open schooling uses high quality self-instructional materials drawing on the research and experience of open distance learning. The open schooling approach uses these self-instructional materials in conjunction with a system of tutorial support provided through local study centres. WikiEducator's open schooling initiative aims to:

• build capacity among educators in using wiki methodologies for implementing open schooling approaches; and
• reduce the costs of producing self-instructional materials through international collaboration and a free content model.
• make a substantive contribution to achieving universal access to school-level education using free content.

Open School WikiEducators

• Frances Ferreira, COL
• Wayne Mackintosh, COL;
• Ed Du Vivier, Independent Consultant;
• Dr. Pankaj Khare, IGNOU, New Delhi
• Minhaaj ur Rehman, Lahore, Pakistan
• Nellie Deutsch, Building Relationship
• Letare Hemrom,Jamshedpur,India.
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Projects

• Costs and Finances for Open Schools- Course materials
• Institute Capacity Building Project for Open School, Bangladesh Open University
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Links

• Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL)
• National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), India
• Virtual University of Pakistan
• AIOU Pakistan

• Warrington School NZ
• Ort Gutman High School
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