“giotaalevizou” at OLnet has posted an interview with Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia, on open educational resources. From the post:
We are part of the OER community by default because of what we are. We have the wikibooks projects, which if fine, but we are trying to write textbooks using the same software to write that we use to write Wikipedia… And the software itself has certain default assumptions that are designed around the workflow for producing an encyclopaedia and it doesn’t support some of the other kinds of things you would want for an educational environment. It’s not an ideal system for this purpose.
