WikiEducator at OpenEd2009

I made contact with Randy Fisher (aka WikiRandy) at OpenEd2009 and thought I'd add some information here that he sent me, since it is of relevance to networking with the OER community.

Randy works for WikiEducator (http://www.wikieducator.org). Their vision is to create a free and open version of the world's education curriculum by 2015. WikiEducator was a project of the Commonwealth of Learning (http://www.col.org), but has outgrown the home nest - with 10,000 active educators from all over the world and a top 90,000 website in the world. Randy is on the governing council. Now, WikiEducator is co-located with Otago Polytechnic in NZ, and is under the rubric of a nonprofit entity called the OER Foundation. Athabasca University in Canada hosts their servers, the Commonwealth of Learning supports their infrastructure, and they have relationships with tertiary and secondary institutions from around the world.

WikiEducator are exploring different models of openness, including "open philanthropy" (http://www.wikieducator.org/Open_Philanthropy). They are also always interested in pilot projects (http://www.wikieducator.org/Pilot_Projects) to strengthen relationships and see how they can work together and develop internal use cases.