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

"The global nature of OER is integral to their quality and value. OER that allow adaptation, derivation, and redistribution encourage global activity like translation, transcontinental collaboration, and more." - OER Session at UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education

• Academic Commons (US) - community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators and other academic professionals, creating uses of new technology and networked information supporting project of liberal education, re-thinking what it means to be liberally educated: issues, archives, AC wiki, aggregator, Filtered (magazine)
• 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
• Cape Town Open Education Declaration - unlocking the promise of open educational resources: Read, Sign, View Signatures, Translations, FAQ, Press. Related Initiatives, Comments

• ccLearn - realizing full potential of internet to support open learning and open educational resources, mission to minimize legal technical and social barriers to sharing and reuse: Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations, DiscoverEd, Open Ed Community, Inside OER, ccLearn International
• China Open Resource for Education (CORE) (CN) - non-profit organization, promotes closer interaction & open sharing of educational resources between Chinese & international universities: latest news, open resources, members & scholarships, 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, resources (services, publications, Course Materials, OCW & OERs, Micro-sites (gender, Quality Assurance), speeches & presentations)
• Creative Commons (US) - nonprofit corporation making it easier to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with rules of copyright, free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination: FAQ, wiki, projects, international
   
• Definition of Free Cultural Works - Definition, FAQ, Licenses, Portals, Awareness
• Digital Scholarship (US) - provides news and commentary on digital (copyright, curation, repositories), open access, scholarly communication, digital information issues: Weblog, Open Access Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing (Bibliography, Weblog, Resources), Open Access Webliography
• Earlham College (US), SPARC Open Access Newsletter - Open Access Overview, Newsletter archive, News blog, Discussion forum archive, Timeline of the Open-Access Movement, Conferences, OA-related sites and info, promoting open access
• Educators Coop (US) - 3-D virtual world community of university faculty, librarians, and K-12 teachers actively teaching or researching in virtual worlds: community engagement, machinima, media literacy, Second Life, service learning, teen second life
• 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
• Foothill-De Anza Community College District, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) (US) - primary goal to identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty: Information, College OER Sites, Resources, Shared Knowledge, Training, Featured Sites, Resources, Tutorials
• Hewlett Foundation(US) - makes grants to continue to develop networks for sharing free high-quality educational materials, also to organizations working on creative ways to use OER to improve learning such as educational games and open textbooks
• 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
• 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: full report, summary
• 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)
• Merlot - user-centered searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education online learning materials catalogued by registered members, faculty development support services, vision to be online community where faculty, staff, and students share learning materials and pedagogy: Collection, Faculty Development, Awards, Partner Support, Policies, Programs and Projects, Media Center
• MIT OpenCourseWare (US) - Participating in MIT OpenCourseWare, informational resource about MIT OpenCourseWare project aimed at members of the MIT Faculty & students
• MIT Press (US), Opening Up Education - essays by leaders in open education, collective advancement of education through open technology, open content and open knowledge
• OER Blogs (US) - attempting to unite the world of Open Educational Resources: OER, OCW, Open Access Movement, Intellectual Property
• Monterey 2009, OER Meeting (US - Descriptions of OER projects around the world
• OER Introduction - Overview of the open educational resources movement and available tools
• 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 Access Directory (OAD) - wiki where the open access (OA) community can create and support simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship: OA directory, community portal, events
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) (US) - develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content: Community, Specifications, Projects
• Open Content Alliance (OCA) - collaborative effort of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations building permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material, encourages access to and reuse of collections: FAQ, participate, press
• Open Educational Resources Grapevine - promotes discussion and cooperation among projects relating to OER: projects, Community portal, email list
• Open Knowledge Foundation (UK), Open Text Book - registry of textbooks and related materials free to use, reuse and redistribute: Participate, Repository
• Open Knowledge Foundation (UK), Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age - not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms, activities organized around individual working groups and projects, united by a common set of concerns: blog, projects, events
• Open Learning Content Observatory Services (OLCOS) project - aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of OER, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe
• 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) - evangelizing idea of opening access to educational resources: game, ocwfinder, google ocw, opl, wiki, ertg
• OpenCourseWare Consortium - free & open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses, collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions & associated organizations from around world creating broad & deep body of open educational content using a shared mode: members, news, blog, find courses
• OpenWetWare (US) - sharing info, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups working in biology & biological engineering, place for labs, individuals, and groups to organize info and collaborate with others: materials, protocols, resources

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