WikiEducator

WikiEducator is a community resource supported by the Commonwealth of Learning for the development of free educational content. It is an evolving online community intended for the collaborative:

• planning of education projects linked with the development of free content,
• development of free content on WikiEducator for eLearning,
• building of open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs, and
• networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

WikiEducator’s members participate from remote locations to create educational content collaboratively and to plan conferences and other events. The site provides an online transnational workspace for a variety of educational purposes and is free for anyone to use. All materials submitted to WikiEducator are licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 2.5 copyright license which permits copying, editing and free reuse of the materials, with attribution.

COL launched WikiEducator in 2006. WikiEducator became an independent entity in 2009 and is part of the non-profit OER Foundation established by Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin, New Zealand.

WikiEducator's Learning4Content initiative continues to build capacity among teachers/educators to develop free content for learning and prioritise wiki skills training in developing countries. For more information about getting involved as a host, participant, facilitator or sponsor, visit the Learning4Content page on WikiEducator.