Appropedia

Appropedia is a site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development, with a particular focus on appropriate technology.

Appropedia as a pedagogical tool
Appropedia is increasingly being used to improve the pedagogy of service learning

Appropedia can be used to:
 * integrate sustainability and development studies into language courses
 * provide useful content for translation for language courses
 * provide a design forum for engineering courses
 * coordinate an online course
 * encourage collaboration on documents within a course

Appropedia can be a valuable learning resource.

Examples of service learning projects

 * Arcata Marsh - a natural wastewater treatment system, documented publicly for the first time.
 * Global Health Medical Device Compendium, begun in 2011 and [ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20346-global-health-students-build-wiki-of-medical-devices-designed-for-low-income-countries announced] in April 2012, already with many documented technologies.