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Wiki Media A non-profit charitable organization. It encourages •The growth •Development •Distribution of free, multilingual Educational Content
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Presentation on The WikiEducator which 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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Wiki Media
A non-profit charitable organization.It encourages •The growth•Development•Distribution of free, multilingual Educational Content
WikiEducator
WikiEducator is a community resource supported by the Common Wealth of learning
COL is an intergovernmental organization created by common wealth heads of government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge
What is WikiEducator?The word Wiki is derived from Hawaiian word
which means quick.
It is an open source software that allows users to publish license free/open educational content in the web .
It work on building Open Educational Resources
It allows user to create any content page on the public website that could be used by anyone.
What is WikiEducator? Cont'd
It follows a concept of ‘’Open Editing”. Any one can do it.
A web based collaborative tool for e-learning materials
It helps collaborative:
● Planning of educational Projects linked with● Development of free education Content for e-Learning
Lead facilitatorsWayne Machintosh, Director, OER
Foundation and Col Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic
Rory McGreal, UNESCO-Col Chair in OER at Athabasca University
Matt Mc Gregor, Public Lead, Creatice Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
Vasi Doncheva, Flexible Learning Masager, Norht Tec
Open Educational Resources (OER)
COL defines Open Educational COL defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as materials Resources (OER) as materials offered freely and openly to use offered freely and openly to use and adapt for teaching, learning, and adapt for teaching, learning, development and research development and research
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self learner.
Open Educational resources are teaching , learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-using by others.
Advantages of OER Improves educational access
Lower the system costs
Avoid reinventing wheels
Frees academic staff time
Lower costs of development through collaboration
Lower cost of resources
No tuition fees
Why do you join WikiEducator To Learn wiki skills
To develop free content materials
To connect to the WikiEducator community
To build relationships with in the individuals with in WE
To research innovative educational trends and ideas
To built your network
To grow personally
Advantages of WikiEducatorIt will create a pool of trained educationalists using
Wiki Technology to develop OERs
Widening the access to education and technology through the use of WikiEducator
Improving the quantity of these materials through collaboration
Reducing cost of expensive modules
Building local/in-country capacity by training participants on all levels who will train others and creating new educational content in the process.
WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Portal and Discussion Forum
qProvides a platform to develop into a
vActive
vCreative
vInternational Platform
Teachers can meet each other
Enhance the teachings in your classrooms,
Get inspired, trained, creative and empowered for the benefit of your students and yourself.
http://wikieducator.org/Teacher_Collaboration
Is Sharing knowledge something new?
When Parents shares their experience while When Parents shares their experience while bringing up childrenbringing up children
Teachers share their knowledge in the Teachers share their knowledge in the classroomclassroom
Researchers share their findings with their peersResearchers share their findings with their peers
We Share knowledge freely..We Share knowledge freely..
When we give knowledge away, we still have for When we give knowledge away, we still have for ourselves to use!ourselves to use!
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US American Graduate Initiative
“W'll support the creation of a new online and open -source clearing house of courses so that community colleges across the country can offer more classes without building classrooms”
“We don't know where this kind of experiment lead; but that is exactly why we ought to try it”
Before Starting
● Before we start working on the WikiEducator, we need to understand
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