Difference between revisions of "Education/Collaboratively generated educational material"
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* [http://www.p2pu.org/About-P2PU P2P university] | * [http://www.p2pu.org/About-P2PU P2P university] | ||
* [http://cxn.org Connexions]. Open educational content in hundreds of subjects. | * [http://cxn.org Connexions]. Open educational content in hundreds of subjects. | ||
| + | * {{wp|List_of_educational_video_websites|List of educational video websites}} on Wikipedia | ||
| + | * [http://www.openculture.com/ Open Culture] has lists of online courses | ||
* [http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ 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. | * [http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ 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. | ||
* [http://www.popsci.com/node/37498?cmpid=PSCenews090309 How much can you really learn with a free online education] (Wired) | * [http://www.popsci.com/node/37498?cmpid=PSCenews090309 How much can you really learn with a free online education] (Wired) | ||
Revision as of 09:44, 23 September 2010
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 —
- 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.
- List of educational video websites on Wikipedia
- Open Culture has lists of online courses
- 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)
