Content Creation Initiatives
Besides OCW initiatives, there are other initiatives focused on creating learning resources that can be used to form courses or stimulate discussion and share advice around using OER. Connexions (http://cnx.org), founded by Rice University, currently hosts over 16,000 open learning objects available for mixing and matching into study units or full courses. The site allows users to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, and so on. Anyone may view or contribute.
Figure 18: Connexions Content Interface
Similarly, WikiEducator and Curriki have made huge impact in the OER Movement.
Launched in 2003 by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), WikiEducator (http://wikieducator.org) is an evolving community focussed on collaboration in[1]:
- 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
- networking on funding proposals developed as free content
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