OE Global 2019

It is important that results from scientific research becomes embedded in the curricula of both universities, schools of applied sciences and schools for secondary vocational education. In the Netherlands, researchers and teachers from “agricultural education” guarantee this by collaborating in making educational material via a community called the “the green knowledge network” (Groen Kennisnet). A nice example of this collaboration are wiki’s that have been created under supervision of Wageningen University & Research – Library. These wiki’s have clear innovative themes, linking science to practice, and are published on an open platform so they can be used easily in courses as digital (open) textbooks. During this short talk we would like to show you our wiki’s, the way they have been created via de Confluence platform and how they are implemented in education. Furthermore, we would like to present our plan to organize workshops for teachers and researchers in other educational theme’s about the technique of making a wiki in Confluence, the translation from science to education and the possibility to publish the wiki’s on an open platform as digital open textbooks.