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These features mean that Mediawiki could be a good platform for hosting other types of OER, and a few years ago we started using Mediawiki to host the [[OER4Schools]] teacher professional development programme. As far as we are aware, it’s the only structured open teacher programme available aimed at teacher in sub-Saharan Africa (though of course there are other open teacher resources, from OER Africa, TESSA, COL, and others). | These features mean that Mediawiki could be a good platform for hosting other types of OER, and a few years ago we started using Mediawiki to host the [[OER4Schools]] teacher professional development programme. As far as we are aware, it’s the only structured open teacher programme available aimed at teacher in sub-Saharan Africa (though of course there are other open teacher resources, from OER Africa, TESSA, COL, and others). | ||
While our mediawiki-based approach has been very successful in a number of ways, there have also | While our mediawiki-based approach has been very successful in a number of ways, there have also beeen challenges. As an encyclopedia, the basic unit of Wikipedia is articles, which relate to each other, but often not in complex ways. TPD programmes need to be very clearly structured to be effective, and we thus built templates for structuring resources (with semantic properties), section numbers (with CSS), and navigation (again using semantic wiki). [http://www.wikimedia.org.uk Wikimedia UK] kindly provided some funding to help address some of these challenges, in collaboration with Emmanuel (of Kiwix) in a project to "Enable Wiki-based teacher education". There are of course some remaining challenges, and hope to continue working with the community in order to address these! | ||
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