I encountered this resource by accident, but thought some who follow this blog might find it useful. Wikiversity is a side project of the Wikipedia foundation and is an attempt to organize OER resources appropriate for higher education.
The link I provide takes you to an wiki entry describing the history of wikiversity and the categories of resources provided.
I must admit to having mixed feelings about OER resources and the multiple efforts to organize them. Regarding the organization issue I remember a discussion I had after a conference presentation with the Dept. of Education official announcing the OER effort association with the Office of Educational Technology. My suggestion was based on my experience with similar efforts (e.g., MERLOT) that had not impressed me. My suggestion was that instead of duplicating existing efforts, the federal edtech people invest money they had available in grants to content developers arguing that what was needed was a focus on the content and not another delivery system. I guess this made no sense, but I would argue that most of you probably have never used an content resource provided through this effort.
The related issue I have is that quality work should be compensated. Unless there is a way to compensate content developers, I just don’t see the hodge-podge of OER resources ever offering a serious, systematic challenge to the content generated by companies focused on educational content.
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