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Wayne MacKintosh's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he will be writing about his experience with WikiEducator, the freedom culture, and education.

Wayne mackintosh - introduction

Wayne Mackintosh contributed to the series in mid-April and talked about WikiEducator, the freedom culture, and education.

In addition to Wayne’s work on WikiEducator , he was the founding project leader of New Zealand’s eLearning XHTML editor (eXe) project. Wayne is a committed advocate and user of free software for education. He currently serves the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) as Education Specialist, eLearning and ICT Policy and is the founding director of the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Wayne has extensive experience in the theory and practice of open and distance learning (ODL). Prior to moving to New Zealand he spent eleven years working at the University of South Africa (UNISA), a distance learning institution and one of the world’s mega-universities.

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Source:  OpenStax, The impact of open source software on education. OpenStax CNX. Mar 30, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10431/1.7
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