Difference between revisions of "Education/Collaboratively generated educational material"
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* [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 | ||
* [http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/ ck12], free, flexible textbooks for the whole American educational syllabus | * [http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/ ck12], free, flexible textbooks for the whole American educational syllabus | ||
| − | * [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.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 [[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 15:22, 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 
.
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
- ck12, free, flexible textbooks for the whole American educational syllabus
- 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 below. Not collaboratively generated, but released under a Creative Commons license.
- 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)
