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

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* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity Wikiversity]
 
* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikiversity Wikiversity]
 
* [http://www.wikieducator.org WikiEducator] - dedicated to building a complete education curriculum by 2015
 
* [http://www.wikieducator.org WikiEducator] - dedicated to building a complete education curriculum by 2015
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* [http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/ ck12], free, flexible textbooks for the whole American educational syllabus
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* [http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy], a series of tutorial videos, mostly of science and maths, explaining concepts very well. Includes a testing feature exactly like the one described [[http://www.adciv.org/Education#An_alternative_to_examinations|below]]. Not collaboratively generated, but released under a Creative Commons license.
 
* {{wp|OpenCourseWare|OpenCourseWare}} such as {{em}}
 
* {{wp|OpenCourseWare|OpenCourseWare}} such as {{em}}
 
** MIT's original initiative - {{wp|MIT_OpenCourseWare|MIT OpenCourseWare}} and [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT MIT's YouTube channel]
 
** MIT's original initiative - {{wp|MIT_OpenCourseWare|MIT OpenCourseWare}} and [http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT MIT's YouTube channel]

Revision as of 14:22, 12 March 2011

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 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg.

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