WikiEducator:Featured Projects
Contents
- 1 Streams Project
- 2 OER Commons for New Zealand Schools
- 3 Namibia SchoolNet
- 4 Learning for Content
- 5 Empowered Digital Teacher for Online Learning
- 6 Digital Skills for Collaborative OER Development
- 7 Open Content Licensing for Educators
- 8 Curriculum Design for Open Education
- 9 Learning in a Digital Age
- 10 Planning Course Structure for ODFL
- 11 WikiMaster Training Program
- 12 Open Education Resource Foundation (OERF) Strategic Plan
- 13 Design for Learning in Open Education
- 14 Quality Assurance for ODFL (QA4ODFL)
- 15 Aotearoa/New Zealand Open Educational Resources (NZOER) Project
- 16 2026.6.2 vtaylor
- 17 Open Educational Resources for Elementary Education
Streams Project
Beginning in 2008, Vermont EPSCoR, together with a large number of collaborating high school teams, has collected water quality and macroinvertebrate community data from a number of small streams in Vermont, New York, and Puerto Rico. The project gathers valuable research-quality data while also training a new generation of scientists.
OER Commons for New Zealand Schools
An attempt to collect reusable and portable content for New Zealand Schools.
Namibia SchoolNet
SchoolNet Namibia (2000-2009), established as a not-for-gain organisation in February 2000, became well known for its work in the schools of Namibia. In partnership with organisations from the public, private and civil sectors, as well as international agencies and educational institutions, SchoolNet internet-enabled schools and developed a model for doing this sustainably in the most difficult of Namibian conditions.
Learning for Content
Around the globe, teachers and educators receive free training in wiki skills through a series of online and face-to-face workshops. In return, they will become WikiEducators themselves by developing and donating one free content resource back to the WikiEducator community. In other words, L4C participants will "pay" for their training by donating, for example, one lesson or teaching resource back to the project in the spirit of education as a common good for society. This learn-by-doing project will enable teachers and educators to engage with a real community of WikiEducators!
Empowered Digital Teacher for Online Learning
A short course teaching wiki skills for developing OER, H5P interactive objects, storyboarding for online learning sequences, publishing a sequence, and using social media and digital messaging for peer learning and technical support.
Digital Skills for Collaborative OER Development
A comprehensive, open micro-course designed to teach educators how to effectively design, create, remix, and share OER content. Hosted natively on the wiki, the resource takes participants through practical learning pathways covering open copyright licenses, digital literacy, and collaborative authoring tools using wiki technologies.
Open Content Licensing for Educators
This native micro-Open Online Course (mOOC) guide provides an open learning pathway. It introduces educators to the essential concepts of copyright, public domain, and Creative Commons licensing, empowering them to reuse and share content legally while supporting the global open education movement.
Curriculum Design for Open Education
An interactive open micro-course built for higher education teaching practitioners. The wiki pages guide users through exploring, evaluating, and adopting open educational practices (OEP). It covers core aspects of learning frameworks, learner contexts, technological choices, and structural open curriculum mapping.
Learning in a Digital Age
Part of a broader digital literacy suite, this open course page guides independent learners through digital copyright requirements. It functions as a text-and-activity resource where users follow self-study sessions to understand intellectual property boundaries and harness web tools for academic goals.
Planning Course Structure for ODFL
An instructional design resource focused on Open, Distance, and Flexible Learning (ODFL). This native content module breaks down the step-by-step principles of online course construction, explaining how to organize sequential learning activities, design measurable student tasks, and manage communication policies.
WikiMaster Training Program
WikiEducator's native training pathway that turns educators into certified wiki authors. It serves as a decentralized tutorial module teaching basic formatting, template creation, and media embedding, allowing teachers to transform their traditional classroom curricula into public, collaborative open-access resource pages.
Open Education Resource Foundation (OERF) Strategic Plan
A live, collaboratively edited organizational framework that acts as a blueprint for open institutional collaboration. It outlines the strategic objectives, sustainability models, and community development strategies used to connect international universities, letting global educators study and replicate successful open education networks.
Design for Learning in Open Education
A pedagogical module housed under the curriculum design tree that explores how open licensing changes instructional design. The wiki page offers deep dives into user-centered design, open pedagogy, student-generated content models, and methods to make digital course materials accessible to diverse global student populations.
Quality Assurance for ODFL (QA4ODFL)
An open course toolkit dedicated to quality assurance mechanisms in distance learning. The pages guide educational administrators and teachers through establishing benchmarks for online student support, evaluating open-source course content, and designing self-assessment protocols to ensure high-caliber alternative education pathways.
Aotearoa/New Zealand Open Educational Resources (NZOER) Project
A regional project portal acting as an open laboratory for localized curriculum development. The page lists collaborative regional frameworks, case studies of open textbook adoptions, and active working groups, serving as an editable guide for nations looking to scale up local open textbook solutions.
2026.6.2 vtaylor
Through the OER Universitas (OERu) network, WikiEducator hosts a structured collection of open micro-courses. Each micro-course represents roughly 40 hours of self-directed study and can be stacked into full-course academic credits. Individual micro-courses available natively on the platform include:
Digital Literacies for Online Learning (LiDA101)
This micro-course provides an overview of essential digital skills required for online higher education. Utilizing a "free-range learning model," it teaches independent students how to configure personal digital learning environments, safely search and source web information, and evaluate the credibility of online scholarly resources.
Open Education, Copyright and Open Licensing (LiDA103)
Built for contemporary educators and tertiary students, this micro-course explores the mechanics of copyright boundaries in a digital world. The text-and-activity syllabus guides participants through public domain rules, Creative Commons open licensing frameworks, and the practical laws of legally remixing and sharing open content.
Role of the Project Manager (IPM101)
This introductory micro-course introduces the foundations of structural project management frameworks within diverse organizations. Students explore fundamental process groups, methods for mapping out project stakeholders, the overarching impact of institutional work cultures, and strategies for improving team leadership skills and collaborative performance.
Executing and Closing a Project (IPM104)
Operating as a final sequential piece in the project management suite, this micro-course guides learners past the planning phase. The open syllabus details real-world steps for ensuring effective project implementation, tracking milestone execution, managing quality parameters, and facilitating smooth formal handoffs and reviews.
Independent Self-Directed Learning (LiDA m5)
A unique pedagogical micro-course designed to help adult learners maximize non-traditional educational pathways. The curriculum focuses on Bloom’s taxonomy, setting measurable educational objectives, applying self-motivation techniques, executing self-and-peer evaluation rubrics, and assembling a formal, reflective portfolio to seek credential recognition for prior learning experience.
Open Educational Resources for Elementary Education
Single-topic, open-access elementary school science lessons are hosted natively as content pages on WikiEducator.
Exploring the Five Senses
An interactive, station-based biology lesson designed to teach elementary children how their senses process information. Students rotate through timed smell, sight, sound, touch, and taste stations—recording data on specialized observation charts to map out variables and analyze sensory responses.
Ice cream in a Bag!
A hands-on physical science lesson that explores states of matter and thermal energy. Elementary students combine raw ingredients inside double-sealed bags surrounded by salt and ice, shaking the mixture to observe molecules rapidly transitioning from a liquid state into a solid dessert.
Oobleck
Inspired by Dr. Seuss's literature, this chemistry lesson plan introduces students to non-Newtonian fluids and scientific methodology. By mixing a customized solution of glue, water, and borax, children test hypotheses regarding whether the slimy substance behaves as a solid or a liquid.
Rainbow milk
A visual science lesson teaching elementary students about surface tension, chemical reactions, and basic nutrition. Students drop multiple food colors into a bowl of skim milk, introducing dish detergent to observe how localized surface molecules rapidly scatter and create vibrant, swirling color patterns.
An Inside Look at Apples!
A cross-curricular biology and math lesson focusing on botanical anatomy. Elementary students cut open different apple varieties to explicitly isolate the stem, skin, core, flesh, and seeds. The lesson integrates fractional concepts and involves charting student data on color preference bar graphs.
