Presentation on The WikiEducator which is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: planning of education projects linked with the development of free content development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs networking on funding proposals developed as free content

1. Wiki Media
A non-profit charitable organization.
It encourages
•The growth
•Development
•Distribution
of free, multilingual Educational
Content

2. WikiEducator
WikiEducator is a community resource
supported by the Common Wealth of
learning
COL is an intergovernmental organization
created by common wealth heads of
government to encourage the development
and sharing of open learning and distance
education knowledge

3. What is WikiEducator?
The word Wiki is derived from Hawaiian word
which means quick.
It is an open source software that allows users to
publish license free/open educational content in
the web .
It work on building Open Educational
Resources
It allows user to create any content page on
the public website that could be used by
anyone.

4. What is WikiEducator? Cont'd
It follows a concept of ‘’Open Editing”. Any one
can do it.
A web based collaborative tool for e-learning
materials
It helps collaborative:
● Planning of educational Projects linked with
● Development of free education Content for e-Learning

5. Lead facilitators
Wayne Machintosh, Director, OER
Foundation and Col Chair in OER at Otago
Polytechnic
Rory McGreal, UNESCO-Col Chair in OER
at Athabasca University
Matt Mc Gregor, Public Lead, Creatice
Commons Aotearoa New Zealand
Vasi Doncheva, Flexible Learning
Masager, Norht Tec

6. Open Educational Resources (OER)
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7. Open Educational Resources (OER)
 Open Educational Resources are teaching
and learning materials that are freely available
online for everyone to use, whether you are an
instructor, student or self learner.
 Open Educational resources are teaching ,
learning and research resources that reside in
the public domain or have been released under
an intellectual property license that permits
their free use or re-using by others.

8. Advantages of OER
 Improves educational access
 Lower the system costs
 Avoid reinventing wheels
 Frees academic staff time
 Lower costs of development through collaboration
 Lower cost of resources
 No tuition fees

9. Why do you join WikiEducator
 To Learn wiki skills
 To develop free content materials
 To connect to the WikiEducator community
 To build relationships with in the individuals
with in WE
 To research innovative educational trends
and ideas
 To built your network
 To grow personally

10. Advantages of WikiEducator
It will create a pool of trained educationalists using
Wiki Technology to develop OERs
Widening the access to education and technology
through the use of WikiEducator
Improving the quantity of these materials through
collaboration
Reducing cost of expensive modules
Building local/in-country capacity by training
participants on all levels who will train others and
creating new educational content in the process.

11. WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration
Portal and Discussion Forum
qProvides a platform to develop into a
vActive
vCreative
vInternational Platform
Teachers can meet each other
Enhance the teachings in your classrooms,
Get inspired, trained, creative and empowered for the
benefit of your students and yourself.
http://wikieducator.org/Teacher_Collaboration

14. Is Sharing knowledge something new?
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15. Roles of WikiEducator Currently
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G o v e r n m e n t
E n t r e p r e n e u r
C o n c e r n e d C i t i z e n
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16. WikiEducator in Education sector
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P r i m a r y
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T e r i t i a r y
V o c a t i o n a l T r a i n i n g
N o t I n v o l v e d i n e d u c a t i o n

17. US American Graduate Initiative
“W'll support the creation of a
new online and open -source
clearing house of courses so
that community colleges
across the country can offer
more classes without building
classrooms”
“We don't know where this
kind of experiment lead; but
that is exactly why we ought to
try it”

18. Before Starting
● Before we start working on the
WikiEducator, we need to understand
The keys from key board

19. Frequently used symbols for Wiki
Syntax Pipe

20. Frequently used symbols for Wiki
Syntax
Front Slash

21. Frequently used symbols for Wiki
Syntax
Semi Colon

22. Frequently used symbols for Wiki
Syntax
Front Slash

23. Frequently used symbols for Wiki
Syntax
AAtt tthhee rraattee

24. Frequently used symbols for Wiki
Syntax Star

25. Frequently used symbols for Wiki
Syntax
Curley Brackets

26. Frequently used symbols for Wiki
Syntax
Square Brackets

27. Setting Preference
You must be logged in to
see the My Preference
On the top right side

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