Difference between revisions of "Education/Collaboratively generated educational material"

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Educational material can be created and edited collaboratively, constantly evolving and increasing in both quantity and quality, similar to the evolution of the famous wikipedia .

Such material is made available free for anyone — teachers or students — to use and customise for their own purposes. This project is in early days, but is very much under way already. Listed below are several sites

• Wiki books
• Wikiversity
• WikiEducator - dedicated to building a complete education curriculum by 2015
• OpenCourseWare  such as MIT's original initiative - MIT OpenCourseWare .
• Etoys free and open-source software that teaches ideas in innovative ways. Comes as standard on the XO-Laptop which has been given to over a million children in the Third World
• Open University's Open Learn
• P2P university
• Connexions. Open educational content in hundreds of subjects.
• Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Compilation of interactive visualizations of hundreds of phenomena in science, mathematics, music and other areas. Not collaboratively generated, but released under a Creative Commons license, allowing the elements to be used in collaborative projects.
• How much can you really learn with a free online education (Wired)