Difference between revisions of "Education/Collaboratively generated educational material"
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* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki books] | * [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki books] | ||
* [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 | ||
* {{wp|OpenCourseWare|OpenCourseWare}} such as MIT's original initiative - {{wp|MIT_OpenCourseWare|MIT OpenCourseWare}}. | * {{wp|OpenCourseWare|OpenCourseWare}} such as MIT's original initiative - {{wp|MIT_OpenCourseWare|MIT OpenCourseWare}}. | ||
* [http://www.squeakland.org/ 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 | * [http://www.squeakland.org/ 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 | ||
Revision as of 20:39, 5 July 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 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)
