Getting Started - OpenVentures
For the WikiEducator Community, a little bit about the project. We are University of British Columbia graduate students in the Master's in Educational Technology project. One of our tasks is to research learning technology ventures that use Open (i.e. content, data, resources, code, etc.). We thought that WikiEducator would be the best space for our content as it will live beyond our program, and it will also introduce our broader cohort to a global community of educators contributing their expertise collaboratively.
Please note that the page is of course free for ANYBODY to contribute to, so please add to our structure if you feel you have positive contributions.
Greetings team - Hope that you will find the WikiEducator platform useful in your UBC project. Enjoy!
Thanks Wayne, it is great to hear. I am really a big fan of what Wikieducator is doing, and am happy to contribute and help perhaps drive more users to the project.
On a related note, my school is very interested in building out a Wiki, and while we have already started one (wiki.greenschool.org) I am feeling in part that to expand the reach of our curricula it would be ideal to use a site such as WikiEducator... if you have a moment it would be great to talk about this in more detail.
Sure - happy to have a conversation. Pop in to chat.oeru.org. There are pros and cons with self-hosted versus community wiki projects and you need to assess the needs for your school and what works best for you.
Community projects mean better support - but you will be restricted by community values. For example, the Wikieducator community applies free cultural works approved licensing, which for example would restrict embedding of video players that do not meet open standards and or appropriate licensing whereas your school may be less concerned about these issues.
I did notice your wiki does not have a default license - so you will want to have a discussion about that before you project grows too big.
Of course any educator is free to participate on WikiEducator - or any other of the great open community projects.
