Two online atabases of learning content provide support to Commonwealth countries free of charge. Institutions or governments can use these repositories to access a range of free learning content. See:

COL's Learning Objects Repositories

COL gives you access to the content and resources available in their database. If you are a lecturer or content developer, you have the option to download learning objects/assets that can be used to create learning materials and resources. You can use the search facilities to find learning objects.

     COL- WikiEducator

Contact Person: Wayne MackIntosh   wmackintosh@col.org

WikiEducator's technical infrastructure is supported by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). It is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:

• planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;
• development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;
• work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs;
• networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

WikiEducator is a community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards a free version of the education curriculum by 2015. Driven by the learning for development agenda we focus on:

• building capacity in the use of Mediawiki and related free software technologies for mass-collaboration in the authoring of free content;
• developing free content for use in schools, polytechnics, universities, vocational education institutions and informal education settings;
• facilitating the establishment of community networks and collaboration with existing free content initiatives in education;
• fostering new technologies that will widen access, improve quality and reduce the cost associated with providing education, primarily through the use of free content.