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Project Kiwi

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A constellation of amazing projects aligned with wikiwork.

Courses (videos, books)

  • Academic Earth - gathered videos, mixed licenses
  • College Open Textbooks - support and training for ed groups focused on awareness and advocacy for open textbooks (Hewlett)
  • OER Africa - teaching groups in AFrica how to benefit from/use OER
  • CK12 - collaborative production of open textbooks (cc-by, now cc-nc)
  • OCW (Consortium) - universities putting their course materials online. lectures, videos.

Videos (concepts, talks)

  • Khan Academy - math and science videos for high school +/-
  • YouTube - what's the right educational subset? not the Education channel, actually.

Libraries

  • DPLA, the Digital Public Library of America - a new concept as of late 2010. (Sloan, Harvard)
  • WDL, the World Digital Library. free to browse, mixed licenses (Google, UNESCO)
  • LibLabs and interactive, collaborative physical spaces