WikiEducator

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WikiEducator is an online community project working collaboratively with the free culture movement towards a free version of the education curriculum.

Focus areas:

building capacity in the use of Mediawiki and related free software technologies for mass-collaboration in the authoring of free content;
developing free content for use in schools, polytechnics, universities, vocational education institutions and informal education settings;
facilitating the establishment of community networks and collaboration with existing free content initiatives in education;
fostering new technologies that will widen access, improve quality and reduce the cost associated with providing education, primarily through the use of free content.^[1]

Its development is supported by the Commonwealth of Learning, with some financial support^[2] from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one of the leading proponents of the open educational resources (OER) movement, and programmatic support from UNESCO^[3].