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Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute - Wikipedia

This page links to information, directories, discussion etc about OER and its use (including Open Courseware), rather than OER itself.

• Academic Commons (US) - community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals creating web resource focused on liberal arts education: Center for Teaching and Learning, Developer's Kit, Library, LoLa Exchange (sharing of high-quality learning objects)

• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) - open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been approved by the scientific community, future Web has to be sustainable, interactive, transparent, Content and software tools must be openly accessible and compatible
• Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (UK) - resources, consultancy services and workshops re Web 2.0 technologies and tools creating a new approach to learning (in both in education and the workplace learning) known as Learning 2.0 or Social Learning: Reviews, What's New, Directory, Top 100 Tools, E-Learning Handbook, 25 Tools, Marketplace, E-Learning Pick of the Day
• China Open Resource for Education (CORE) (CN) - non-profit organization, promotes closer interaction & open sharing of educational resources between Chinese & international universities: latest news, sponsors, scholarship, FAQ, resources & programs, benefits & obligations, member universities, international partners, join core, conferences & seminars
• Commonwealth of Learning (COL) - intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth heads of govt. to encourage development & sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources & technologies, helping developing nations improve access to quality education & training: news, programmes & services, knowledge resources (services, publications, quality assurance micro-site, speeches & presentations, links), brochures
• Creative Commons (US), Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally - provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry, nonprofit organization, Everything, including software, is free: support, projects, participate, international, FAQ, Opportunities, Commoners, Audio, Video, Images, Text, Education, Software
• Definition of Free Cultural Works - Definition, FAQ, Licenses, Portals, Awareness
• Digital Scholarship (US) - Weblog, Open Access Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing (Bibliography, Weblog, Resources), Open Access Webliography & tools, other works
• Earlham College (US), Open Access News - putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet, making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, Removing the barriers to serious research
• Education Commons (US) - virtual community of academic systems users, designers & systems implementers sharing knowledge, experiences & best practices, goal to create open transparent system of communication between diverse groups committed to advancing state of education worldwide: Feature Story, Commons Cafe, Forums, Knowledge Base, Projects, Meet
• Educators Coop (US), A Community of Educators in Second Life - 3-D virtual world community of university faculty, librarians, and K-12 teachers actively teaching or researching in Second Life: What is the Coop?, Rules & Responsibilities, How Do I Apply?, Consent Form, Educators Terms of Service, White papers, Blog, FAQs
• EducauseConnect (US), OpenCourseWare and the Emerging Global Meta University - Podcast by Charles M. Vest (MIT) - Global connectivity via the Internet presents many challenges and opportunities for higher education. One major opportunity is the democratizing and empowering force of openly shared educational materials. Reflecting on MIT's experience to date with its OpenCourseWare initiative and related activities, this presentation envisions the rise of a global meta university
• Eduforge, Innovation for Education - open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education, community resources, project space.
• Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) (US) - consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, and engineers, of leading researchers and nonprofit research institutions, committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology: Collaborate, Events, Needle, Projects, Resources, Centers, Institutions, Directory, User Guide, Blogs, Forum
• Jimmy Ruska, Free Education (US) - getting a free online education
• Japan Opencourseware Consortium (JOCW) Official Site (JP) - consortium of Japanese universities: history, members, events
• Katarina Tomasevski, Free or Fee (2006 Global Report) - how ill fares the right to education today, globally it is denied despite UN rhetoric on human rights mainstreaming & rights-based development: get report
• Linden Lab (US), Second Life Education Wiki (US) - resource for educators in Second Life: Getting Started (FAQ & Guidelines), Programs for Educators, Institutions and Organizations, Competitions, Press, Blogs & Presentations, Second Life Mailing Lists, Blogs and Forums, In-World Groups, Academic Research, Classroom Management, Lesson Plans, Teaching Resources, Educational Locations
• LinuxWorld, Free Culture (US): What we need from you - Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law, Stanford Law School: video (Free Culture movement and support it needs from Free Software, struggles and threats are largely parallel, solutions need to be parallel as well)
• MIT OpenCourseWare (US) - informational resource about MIT OpenCourseWare project aimed at members of the MIT Faculty & students
• North Carolina State University (US), Open Courseware Laboratory - novel ways of using the Internet to promote the open exchange of knowledge within the academic community, includes the provision of research and course materials made freely available on the WWW: projects, resources, sponsors
• Online Education Database (OEDb) (US), Top 100 Open Courseware Projects - Agriculture, Arts, Architecture, Archaeology, Audio & Video, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Economics, Electronic Engineering, General Engineering, Earth Sciences, Geography, Geology, History, Languages & Linguistics, Law, Literature, Mechanical Engineering, Paleontology, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Sciences
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) (US) - develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content: Community, Specifications, Projects
• Open Educational Resources Grapevine - promotes discussion and cooperation among projects relating to OER: projects, Community portal, email list
• Open Knowledge Foundation (UK), Protecting and Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age - promotes openness of knowledge in all its forms in belief that freer access to info will have far-reaching social & commercial benefits: weblog & news, projects, participate, wiki, mailing lists, open knowledge trail, research, activities, roadmap
• Open Learning Content Observatory Services (OLCOS) project - aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of open educational resources, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe
• Open Text Book - registry of textbooks and text book material that is open in accordance with the Open Knowledge Definition (OKD)
• OpenAcademic (US), Bringing Education to All - demonstrates options available using existing open source tools: Create intranet, Blog, Podcast. Manage school website, Create private workspace, Manage a class, Share files, services
• OpenContent (US) - Iterating Toward Openness (blog by by David Wiley), oishii, ocwfinder, google ocw, Open Publication License, wiki
• OpenCourseWare Consortium - free & open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses, collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions & associated organizations from around world creating broad & deep body of open educational content using a shared mode: members, news, feedback, find courses, forum, share, support

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