Module 4
The OER Landscape - How to find OER?
The first question people are asking is where to find OER.
When you 'Google' and find something - IT IS NOT NECCESSARILY an OER. You have to check the licence under which it has been pubished (cc-by-sa (share alike), or attribution, for instance, indicate it is an OER).
This module gives an illustrative description of different kinds of facilities and services available online that are linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) in some form. At the end of the module you will also find a tutorial from WikiEducator on how to find OER.
Read more about finding OER:
How to Find Open Educational Resources on the Internet - http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Find-Open-Educational-Resources-on-the-Internet&id=6019873
Find #oer on the #iphone and #ipad using OER Search App:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oer-search/id358703397?mt=8#
The links to OER are loosely categorised under the following headings:
# OER Repositories
# OER Initiatives/Projects
# OER Search Facilities
# Open Access Journals
# School Level OER Repositories/Initiatives/Projects
# Open Textbooks
# OER Tools/Platforms to share/Ecosystems
# Organisations with an OER Strategy/Policy
# TVET OER
# OER Images
This module is attibuted to UNESCO-COL and based on the content of Appendix 5 and 6 of the COL-UNESCO Basic Guide to OER.
Because of the dynamic nature of OER, the lists of OER repositories/initatives given in this module, are by no means complete.
When you 'Google' and find something - IT IS NOT NECCESSARILY an OER. You have to check the licence under which it has been pubished (cc-by-sa (share alike), or attribution, for instance, indicate it is an OER).
This module gives an illustrative description of different kinds of facilities and services available online that are linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) in some form. At the end of the module you will also find a tutorial from WikiEducator on how to find OER.
Read more about finding OER:
How to Find Open Educational Resources on the Internet - http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Find-Open-Educational-Resources-on-the-Internet&id=6019873
Find #oer on the #iphone and #ipad using OER Search App:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oer-search/id358703397?mt=8#
The links to OER are loosely categorised under the following headings:
# OER Repositories
# OER Initiatives/Projects
# OER Search Facilities
# Open Access Journals
# School Level OER Repositories/Initiatives/Projects
# Open Textbooks
# OER Tools/Platforms to share/Ecosystems
# Organisations with an OER Strategy/Policy
# TVET OER
# OER Images
This module is attibuted to UNESCO-COL and based on the content of Appendix 5 and 6 of the COL-UNESCO Basic Guide to OER.
Because of the dynamic nature of OER, the lists of OER repositories/initatives given in this module, are by no means complete.
OER Repositories
As was said in Module 2, most of OER are collected electronically in some form of repository. There are numerous repositories and you have to decide, which ones satisfiy your needs.
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is one of the biggest repositories. It is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware (http://www.ocwconsortium.org).
One of their major approaches to promoting OER globally is through OpenCourseWare (OCW), where the focus is on developing and sharing freely available, stand-alone, online course, and teaching materials. OCW usually includes items such as lecture notes, reading lists, course assignments, syllabi, study materials, tests, samples and simulations. You can find course materials by browsing individual university OpenCourseWare websites or by searching across all courses in the OCW Consortium’s website.
Another one is the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Teaching Online (MERLOT) who provides free and open resources designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education (http://www.merlot.org). MERLOT allows users to find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, and share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues.
Although a huge number of repositories are from the USA, there is growing interest in and development of OER initiatives in other parts of the world. For example, in China, 451 courses have been made available by 176 university members of the China Open Resources for Education (CORE) consortium. CORE is also involved in translating these courses into English as part of its Chinese Quality Open Courseware (CQOCW) project (see http://ocw.core.org.cn/CORE).
Also check:
Japanese OCW Consortium (http://www.jocw.jp)
ParisTech OCW project (France) (http://www.paristech.fr/en/index.html)
JORUM (UK) (http://www.jorum.ac.uk) for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions
OER are also produced in multiple languages:
Universia’s Spanish and Portuguese translations (http://ocw.universia.net/en)
OER are produced as audio and visual content:
iTunes U (http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/)
Khan Acadamy (http://www.khanacademy.org/)
Although OER has started as a Higher Education idea, several school level repositories are available. Examples are COL's OER 4 Open Schools (http://www.col.org/progServ/programmes/education/Pages/openSchooling.aspx), Khan Acadamy (http://www.khanacademy.org/) and Free High School Science Texts http://fhsst.org/, to name a few.
Check the list below for more OER repositories.
For more Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories ~
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is one of the biggest repositories. It is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware (http://www.ocwconsortium.org).
One of their major approaches to promoting OER globally is through OpenCourseWare (OCW), where the focus is on developing and sharing freely available, stand-alone, online course, and teaching materials. OCW usually includes items such as lecture notes, reading lists, course assignments, syllabi, study materials, tests, samples and simulations. You can find course materials by browsing individual university OpenCourseWare websites or by searching across all courses in the OCW Consortium’s website.
Another one is the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Teaching Online (MERLOT) who provides free and open resources designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education (http://www.merlot.org). MERLOT allows users to find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, and share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues.
Although a huge number of repositories are from the USA, there is growing interest in and development of OER initiatives in other parts of the world. For example, in China, 451 courses have been made available by 176 university members of the China Open Resources for Education (CORE) consortium. CORE is also involved in translating these courses into English as part of its Chinese Quality Open Courseware (CQOCW) project (see http://ocw.core.org.cn/CORE).
Also check:
Japanese OCW Consortium (http://www.jocw.jp)
ParisTech OCW project (France) (http://www.paristech.fr/en/index.html)
JORUM (UK) (http://www.jorum.ac.uk) for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions
OER are also produced in multiple languages:
Universia’s Spanish and Portuguese translations (http://ocw.universia.net/en)
OER are produced as audio and visual content:
iTunes U (http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/)
Khan Acadamy (http://www.khanacademy.org/)
Although OER has started as a Higher Education idea, several school level repositories are available. Examples are COL's OER 4 Open Schools (http://www.col.org/progServ/programmes/education/Pages/openSchooling.aspx), Khan Acadamy (http://www.khanacademy.org/) and Free High School Science Texts http://fhsst.org/, to name a few.
Check the list below for more OER repositories.
For more Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories ~
Australian Flexible Learning Framework - Learning Object Repository Network (LORN)
http://lorn.flexiblelearning.net.au/repositories/
LORN currently has seven member repositories contributing more than 2500 learning objects for download in a wide range of industries and subject areas, including business, community services, electro technology, horticulture, tourism, and hospitality. The focus is on TVET.
Connexions
http://cnx.org/
A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute
Development Gateway
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation/index.do
dgCommunities is both a place to find knowledge resources focused on development issues and an interactive space where users can share their own work, participate in discussions, and find people with similar interests.
Internet Archive, Education
http://www.archive.org/details/education
This library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.
JORUM (JISC)
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.
LectureFox
http://www.lecturefox.com/
Lecturefox is a free service, where users can find high-quality classes from universities all over the world. The site focuses on lectures from the faculties of physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics. In the category “faculty mix” you can find miscellaneous lectures from other departments like electrical engineering, biology, psychology, economics, history and philosophy.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching)
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
In this site, users can find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, and share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues
OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/
This site allows users to browse and search OER Commons to find curriculum, and tag, rate, and review it for others.
OpenCourseWare Consortium
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. Users can find course materials by browsing individual OpenCourseWare sites or by searching across all courses.
OWL Institute – Open Educational Resources
http://www.owli.org/oer/
OWL's mission is to research, develop, and distribute educational resources and opportunities across economic, geographic and cultural barriers.
OE Portal Resource Centre
http://www.owli.org/portal/
Organizing OER within a powerful and efficient learning management system, the OWL Institute's Open Education Portal offers ready-made courses for public use. Using open source software and the OER, the OE Portal puts the power of open education into everyone's reach. Along with resources, the OE Portal brings important news, initiatives, events, expert reviews, guidance and insights for using OER effectively and meaningfully
ParisTech OpenCourseWare
http://www.paristech.org/en/etudier_libres.html
The main goal of this site is to promote, gather and give free access to the largest number of courses materials. the site offers access to OCW, PHD Theses and displays all the Credits, Training programs and Books written by faculty members.
Repository.ac.nz
http://oer.repository.ac.nz/course/index.php
An OER initiative in New Zealand, this site allows users to access a number of courses
SOFIA (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) OpenCourseWare
http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning. The focus is on exploring ways of supporting instruction and student learning using web-based resources.
Universia OCW
http://ocw.universia.net/en/
This site contains Spanish and Portuguese OCW from over 30 participating institutions
Vietnam OpenCourseWare
http://www.vocw.edu.vn/$
The content in Vietnam OpenCourseWare comes in two formats: modules, which are like small "knowledge chunks," and courses, which are collections of modules. Their open licence allows for free use and reuse of all their content. Most of the course content is in Vietnamese
Taiwan OpenCourseWare Consortium
http://tocwc.nctu.edu.tw/
This website contains OCW from a number of universities in Taiwan. The website as well as the resources are in Chinese.
Utah OpenCourseWare Alliance
http://uocwa.org/courses
This site collates all the OCW courses from participating institutions in Utah, US
NetEase OpenCourseWare Consortium
http://v.163.com/open/
OpenCourseWare Consortium NetEase is the 3rd largest portal site in China and has joined the OCW Consortium as a Sustaining Affiliate Member. They have translated hundreds of videos into Chinese, and are preparing to launch a platform for study groups.
CEC Learning Object Repository (India)
http://www.cec-ugc.org/
Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) is an inter-university centre on electronic media, established by the University Grants Commission (UGC). CEC's Learning Object Repository (LOR) houses educational resources in different subjects such as Archaeology, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Commerce, Computer Science, Economics, Education, English, Fine Arts etc.
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
http://nptel.iitg.ernet.in/
The main objective of NPTEL program is to enhance the quality of engineering education in India by developing curriculum based video and web courses. This is being carried out by seven premier institutions as a collaborative project.
OER Initiatives/Projects
Most of OER work is still located in specially funded initatives/projects. Most of the above repositories fall in this category. These are mainly donor/external funded. The challenge is to mainstream initatives/projects into the day-to-day activities of institutions.
One of the initiatives that became mainstream is the UK Open University's Open Learn (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk).
Some of these that were not included in the repositories include:
OER Africa
http://www.oerafrica.org
OER Africa promotes the use of OER in Africa and supports individuals and organizations in creating OER. It establishes dynamic networks of African OER practitioners by connecting like‐minded educators/teachers, academics, and trainers, to develop, share, and adapt OER to meet the education needs of African societies. OER Africa is also involved in numerous projects supporting the adoption of OER in a number of Higher Education Initiatives (HEI) across Africa. The site not only allows access to African‐developed resources, but also allows users to follow a documented process of how the materials were created.
Teacher Education in Sub‐Saharan Africa (TESSA)
http://www.tessafrica.net
It offers course design guidance for teachers and teacher - educators working in Sub‐Saharan African countries, and has produced a range of OER in four languages, to support school‐based teacher education and training. These materials focus on classroom practice in the key areas of literacy, numeracy, science, social studies and the arts and life skills.
OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org
A repository of free-to-use teaching and learning content from around the world from K-12 to college course.
Some of the initatives are institution-based such as the university repositories below as well as projects such as TESSA (see Above), Siyavula (http://wwwshuttleworthfoundation.org/projects/siyavula), and the ACEMaths (http://www.oerafrica.org/acemaths/).
Here is a list of some repositories, university initatives and content speciific initatives you can explore:
One of the initiatives that became mainstream is the UK Open University's Open Learn (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk).
Some of these that were not included in the repositories include:
OER Africa
http://www.oerafrica.org
OER Africa promotes the use of OER in Africa and supports individuals and organizations in creating OER. It establishes dynamic networks of African OER practitioners by connecting like‐minded educators/teachers, academics, and trainers, to develop, share, and adapt OER to meet the education needs of African societies. OER Africa is also involved in numerous projects supporting the adoption of OER in a number of Higher Education Initiatives (HEI) across Africa. The site not only allows access to African‐developed resources, but also allows users to follow a documented process of how the materials were created.
Teacher Education in Sub‐Saharan Africa (TESSA)
http://www.tessafrica.net
It offers course design guidance for teachers and teacher - educators working in Sub‐Saharan African countries, and has produced a range of OER in four languages, to support school‐based teacher education and training. These materials focus on classroom practice in the key areas of literacy, numeracy, science, social studies and the arts and life skills.
OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org
A repository of free-to-use teaching and learning content from around the world from K-12 to college course.
Some of the initatives are institution-based such as the university repositories below as well as projects such as TESSA (see Above), Siyavula (http://wwwshuttleworthfoundation.org/projects/siyavula), and the ACEMaths (http://www.oerafrica.org/acemaths/).
Here is a list of some repositories, university initatives and content speciific initatives you can explore:
Open Courseware (OCW) Repositories (Higher Education)
OCW repositories include:
Connexions
A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute
http://cnx.org/
Development Gateway
The Development Gateway is both a place to find knowledge resources focused on development issues and an interactive space where users can share their own work, participate in discussions, and find people with similar interests.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation/index.do
Internet Archive, Education
This library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.
http://www.archive.org/details/education
JORUM (JISC)
JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
LectureFox
Lecturefox is a free service, where users can find high-quality classes from universities all over the world. The site focuses on lectures from the faculties of physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics. In the category “faculty mix” you can find miscellaneous lectures from other departments like electrical engineering, biology, psychology, economics, history and philosophy.
http://www.lecturefox.com/
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching)
In this site, users can find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, and share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues.
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
OpenCourseWare Consortium
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. Users can find course materials by browsing individual OpenCourseWare sites or by searching across all courses.
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html
OER Commons
This site allows users to browse and search OER Commons to find curriculum, and tag, rate, and review it for others.
http://www.oercommons.org/
OWL Institute – Open Educational Resources
OWL's mission is to research, develop, and distribute educational resources and opportunities across economic, geographic and cultural barriers.
http://www.owli.org/oer/
OE Portal Resource Centre
Organising OER within a powerful and efficient learning management system, the OWL Institute's Open Education Portal offers ready-made courses for public use. Using open source software and the OER, the OE Portal puts the power of open education into everyone's reach. Along with resources, the OE Portal brings important news, initiatives, events, expert reviews, guidance and insights for using OER effectively and meaningfully
http://www.owli.org/portal/
ParisTech OpenCourseWare
The main goal of this site is to promote, gather and give free access to the largest number of courses materials. the site offers access to OCW, PHD Theses and displays all the Credits, Training programs and Books written by faculty members.
http://www.paristech.org/en/etudier_libres.html
Repository.ac.nz
An OER initiative in New Zealand, this site allows users to access a number of courses
http://oer.repository.ac.nz/course/index.php
SOFIA (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) OpenCourseWare
The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning. The focus is on exploring ways of supporting instruction and student learning using web-based resources.
http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
Universia OCW
This site contains Spanish and Portuguese OCW from over 30 participating institutions
http://ocw.universia.net/en/
Connexions
A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute
http://cnx.org/
Development Gateway
The Development Gateway is both a place to find knowledge resources focused on development issues and an interactive space where users can share their own work, participate in discussions, and find people with similar interests.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation/index.do
Internet Archive, Education
This library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.
http://www.archive.org/details/education
JORUM (JISC)
JORUM is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials.
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
LectureFox
Lecturefox is a free service, where users can find high-quality classes from universities all over the world. The site focuses on lectures from the faculties of physics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics. In the category “faculty mix” you can find miscellaneous lectures from other departments like electrical engineering, biology, psychology, economics, history and philosophy.
http://www.lecturefox.com/
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching)
In this site, users can find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, and share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues.
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
OpenCourseWare Consortium
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. Users can find course materials by browsing individual OpenCourseWare sites or by searching across all courses.
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/use-dynamic.html
OER Commons
This site allows users to browse and search OER Commons to find curriculum, and tag, rate, and review it for others.
http://www.oercommons.org/
OWL Institute – Open Educational Resources
OWL's mission is to research, develop, and distribute educational resources and opportunities across economic, geographic and cultural barriers.
http://www.owli.org/oer/
OE Portal Resource Centre
Organising OER within a powerful and efficient learning management system, the OWL Institute's Open Education Portal offers ready-made courses for public use. Using open source software and the OER, the OE Portal puts the power of open education into everyone's reach. Along with resources, the OE Portal brings important news, initiatives, events, expert reviews, guidance and insights for using OER effectively and meaningfully
http://www.owli.org/portal/
ParisTech OpenCourseWare
The main goal of this site is to promote, gather and give free access to the largest number of courses materials. the site offers access to OCW, PHD Theses and displays all the Credits, Training programs and Books written by faculty members.
http://www.paristech.org/en/etudier_libres.html
Repository.ac.nz
An OER initiative in New Zealand, this site allows users to access a number of courses
http://oer.repository.ac.nz/course/index.php
SOFIA (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) OpenCourseWare
The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning. The focus is on exploring ways of supporting instruction and student learning using web-based resources.
http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
Universia OCW
This site contains Spanish and Portuguese OCW from over 30 participating institutions
http://ocw.universia.net/en/
Univeristy Initiatives
Athabasca University
http://emd.athabascau.ca/opencourseware/
The only OCW course found at this university is 'Maths Support for Calculus'. This consists of 5 modules
Brigham Young University
http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/ocw/
BYU Independent Study offers selected courses from the university and high-school portfolio in their Open CourseWare pilot program.
Capilano University, Canada
http://ocw.capilanou.ca/
The Capilano University OpenCourseWare site is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.
Carnegie Mellon University, Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) builds courses that are intended to enact instruction - or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning. The site contains Open & Free courses over a number of disciplines. These are designed for individual learners who are not under the guidance of an instructor and allows access to most or all course content.
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
http://cu-ocw.eng.chula.ac.th/cu/Courses_listing
This site contains course content in English and Thai.
College of Eastern Utah's OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.ceu.edu/
This site is involved in making course materials available through an open content licence.
Dixie State College of Utah
http://ocw.dixie.edu/
Dixie State OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.
Grenoble Ecole de Management
http://opencim.grenoble-em.com/
This site contains OpenCourseWare in Management. The course content is in French.
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) OCW
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OCW project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. It provides free, searchable, access to JHSPH's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Kaplan University OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.kaplan.edu/
This site provides Open access to materials used in a variety of Kaplan University's courses.
Keio University
http://ocw.dmc.keio.ac.jp/
This site contains notes and materials. The course outlines and assessment tasks are in English, but lecture notes are in Japanese.
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
http://opencourseware.kfupm.edu.sa/
The purpose of KFUPM open courseware is to showcase course material used in the courses of the university to demonstrate KFUPM educational culture and to be part of the global interactions in the open sharing of educational material. The courses on this site are categorized in terms of the academic disciplines in which university offers its academic programs. The site currently includes sample courses and more courses will be added to the site with time.
Korea University
http://ocw.korea.edu/ocw
Contains the university's OCW in English.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
http://web.knust.edu.gh/oer/
Through the OER project, funded by the Hewlett Foundation, began in KNUST as a collaboration between Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi; University of Ghana, Accra, University of Michigan, USA, University of Cape Town, South Africa, University of Western Cape, South Africa and OER Africa. KNUST’s OER initiative is also supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations. As part of this collaboration, an African Health OER Network which includes other African universities has been established to enhance knowledge sharing and KNUST represented by the College of Health Sciences is a part of this network.
Kyoto-U OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/?set_language=en
This site provideas access to lectures and courses at the university. Note that many of the lecture notes are in Japanese.
Kyung Hee University
http://ocw.khu.ac.kr:8080/CTL/
This site provideas access to lectures and courses at the university. Course and syllabus outlines are in English, while lecture notes are in English and Korean.
La Universidad de Monterrey
http://ocw.udem.edu.mx/
Contains the university's OCW (in Spanish).
Michigan State University
http://www.msuglobal.com/ocw
MSU Open CourseWare (OCW) is an initiative of the university led by MSUglobal Learning Ventures. Their goal is to share the expertise of the University through OER in the form of OCW. MSU OCW provides free and open access to a growing collection of formal course content as well as innovative and educational resources.
Middle East Technical University (METU) OpenCourseWare, Turkey
http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/
METU OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. They offer courses in Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Computer Engineering, Educational Sciences, Foreign Language Education, Informatics, Mechanical Engineering and Physics.
MIT OpenCourseWare - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://ocw.mit.edu
One of the most popular and most extensive open courseware collections online, MIT offers 1,900 courses in nearly every subject. The site contains free lecture notes, exams, and videos, and no registration is required.
Nagoya University OpenCourseware (NU OCW), Japan
http://ocw.nagoya-u.jp/index.php?lang=en
This site contains notes and materials from lectures given at Nagoya University. The course outlines and assessment tasks are in English, but lecture notes are in Japanese
National Tsing Hua University
http://my.nthu.edu.tw/~ocw/
This site contains course materials in English and Chinese.
OCW Universidad de Cantabria
http://ocw.unican.es/
Contains the university's OCW (in Spanish).
Open Learn ( (The Open University UK)
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php
The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. In the LearningSpace users can find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum.
Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Contains open and free courses as well as 'academic versions'"of courses that are led by an instructor (the latter involves a maintenance fee).
Open Content UCT
http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/
The UCT OpenContent directory is the web portal for accessing open teaching and learning content from UCT. Produced by the Open Educational Resources project in the Centre for Educational Technology at UCT with the support of the Shuttleworth Foundation, the directory aims to showcase the teaching efforts of UCT academics and encourage the publication of open resources.
Open Universiteit Nederland
http://www.opener.ou.nl/
Contains the university's OCW (in Dutch).
Open University of Catalonia, Spain
http://ocw.universia.net/en/instituciones/8/open-university-of-catalonia/
Contains the university's OCW (in Spanish).
Open Yale Courses
http://oyc.yale.edu/courselist ?
Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.
Open.Michigan
https://open.umich.edu/education/courses-resources
The University of Michigan's initiative to create and share knowledge, resources, and research with the global learning community - Open.Michigan includes information, updates, discussion, blogs, videos, and podcasts detailing their efforts.
Osaka University, Japan
http://ocw.osaka-u.ac.jp/
Osaka University Open Course Ware Pilot Site is a collections of Osaka University's educational materials which is actually used in the courses taught at Osaka University. Course outlines are in English, and course notes are in Japanese.
Peoples-uni.org
http://www.peoples-uni.org/
Offers courses in public health through Internet based e-learning. The course content is accessible when you register/login.
Pusan National University
http://ocw.pusan.ac.kr/
Course outlines and the syllabus is in English, but lectures are in Korean.
Rai OpenCourseware, India
http://www.rocw.raifoundation.org/
Rai OpenCourseware is Rai Foundation Colleges's inititave of bringing world-class higher education within the reach of one and all. Educational institutions who wish to use Rai OpenCourseWare for their students can also do so by only providing an acknowledgement to Rai Foundation Colleges as 'Source'.
The UMass Boston OpenCourseWare (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
http://ocw.umb.edu/courselist
This site contains OCW over a number of different subjects.
Tokyo Institute of Technology
http://www.ocw.titech.ac.jp/index.php?lang=EN
Lecture outlines are in English.
TU Delft OpenCourseware, The Netherlands
http://ocw.tudelft.nl/
TU Delft OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
United Nations University, UNU OpenCourseWare (Japan)
http://ocw.unu.edu/Courses_listing
The UN University is committed to the development of this OCW website that showcases the training and educational programmes implemented by the University in a wide range of areas relevant to the work of the United Nations.
Universidad Cadiz
http://ocw.uca.es/
Contains course materials in Spanish.
University of California College Prep (UCCP) Open Access
http://www.ucopenaccess.org/
Provides prep courses freely available for students and educators to use as supplemental or complementary material. Users can easily move through an entire UCCP course from start to finish, or a lecturer can send studens to an open course to provide them with additional learning opportunities.
University of California, Berkley
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
Contains podcasts and Webcasts of UC Berkeley current and archived courses.
University of California, Irvine
http://B31//ocw.uci.edu/B39
Contains courses in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
University of Notre Dame
http://ocw.nd.edu/
Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. Users can access courses from 20 departments.
University of Puerto Rico
http://www.ocwupr.org:8080/ocw
Contains a number of courses (in Portuguese).
University of the Western Cape - Free Courseware Project
http://freecourseware.uwc.ac.za/freecourseware/courselist
UWC has a long history of supporting the use, development and diffusion of free/open source software and educational resources. In 2005 UWC's Senate passed an ambitious Free Content, Free/Open Courseware Policy, which removed institutional obstacles to publication of open educational resources. The Free Courseware project is part of a broader move towards implementation of this strategy.
University of Tokyo OpenCourseWare (Japan)
http://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/
This site contains OCW over a number of different subjects. The course content is available in English and Japanese.
University of Utah OpenCourseWare Project
http://my.courses.utah.edu/course/category.php?id=3
The University of Utah's OpenCourseWare (OCW) project is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. Also known as U Moodle, the University of Utah has courses in Art, English, Economics, Education, History and the Sciences.
UNow: University of Nottingham OpenCourseWare
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/
U-Now is the University of Nottingham’s formal open courseware initiative, and a member of OCW OpenCourseWare Consortium.
USQ OpenCourseWare (University of Southern Queensland) - Australia
http://ocw.usq.edu.au/
USQ is initially offering sample courses from each of the five faculties and also courses from its Tertiary Preparation Programme.
Utah State University OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.usu.edu/
Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities.
Utah Valley State College
http://open.uvsc.edu/
Containing a number of OCW across subjects, this site requires users to create an account to view and use their OCW materials.
Utah Valley University
http://open.uvu.edu/
Contains two OER/OCW.
Waseda University
http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/
Contains a number of courses in English.
Weber State OpenCourseWare (Weber State University)
http://ocw.weber.edu/
Part of the OCW consortium, the university offers limited OCW in Automotive Technology, Criminal Justice,
English Health Promotion & Human Performance, and Information Systems & Technology.
Western Governors University
http://ocw.wgu.edu/
Western Governors University is a non-profit online university, and is the only accredited university in the U.S. offering competency-based, online degrees. It currently provides access to OCW in Liberal Arts.
China Open Resources for Education (CORE)
http://www.core.org.cn/cn/jpkc/index_en.html
China Open Resources for Education (CORE) is a consortium of universities. It is is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities.
Japan Opencourseware Consortium
http://www.jocw.jp/
JOCW is the consortium of Japanese Universities which have been providing OCW in JAPAN.
Indira Ghandi National Open University
http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is a national open university that offers distance and open education in India and other countries. IGNOU has initiated the establishment of a National Digital Repository of learning resources eGyankosh. This repository envisages to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources of open and distance learning (ODL) institutions of the country. The repository supports seamless aggregation and integration of learning resources in different formats such as self-instructional study materials, audio-video programmes, and archives of radio and television-based live interactive sessions.
Doshisha University Open Courseware
http://opencourse.doshisha.ac.jp/english/study.html
The materials actually used in classes of Doshisha University in Japan are made openly available through the Internet. Courses range by schools, such as the School of Theology or the Institute for Language and Culture. Courses are presented in Japanese.
Universidad Nacional de Columbia
http://www.virtual.unal.edu.co/unvPortal/courses/CoursesViewer.do?reqCode=viewOfFacultys
National University, Columbia offers a wide array of free courses available for Spanish speaking students. Subjects that can be studied include administration, science, nursing, art, agronomy, engineering, architecture, medicine and dentistry.
Open University of Hong Kong
http://freecourseware.ouhk.edu.hk/fc/php/index_e.php?id=2d615705f04bcf974c4b3766411250cf&sid=0&lang=e
The Open University of Hong Kong, being the major local provider of distance education, offers free opportunities for interested learners to have a genuine experience of distance education. Some of the courses are presented in Chinese.
University of Hong Kong
http://www.arch.hku.hk/~cmhui/teach/#Courses
The University of Hong Kong offers several free online courses in sustainable architecture and energy-efficient design. The course materials are all in English.
http://emd.athabascau.ca/opencourseware/
The only OCW course found at this university is 'Maths Support for Calculus'. This consists of 5 modules
Brigham Young University
http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/ocw/
BYU Independent Study offers selected courses from the university and high-school portfolio in their Open CourseWare pilot program.
Capilano University, Canada
http://ocw.capilanou.ca/
The Capilano University OpenCourseWare site is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.
Carnegie Mellon University, Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) builds courses that are intended to enact instruction - or, more precisely, to enact the kind of dynamic, flexible, and responsive instruction that fosters learning. The site contains Open & Free courses over a number of disciplines. These are designed for individual learners who are not under the guidance of an instructor and allows access to most or all course content.
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
http://cu-ocw.eng.chula.ac.th/cu/Courses_listing
This site contains course content in English and Thai.
College of Eastern Utah's OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.ceu.edu/
This site is involved in making course materials available through an open content licence.
Dixie State College of Utah
http://ocw.dixie.edu/
Dixie State OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.
Grenoble Ecole de Management
http://opencim.grenoble-em.com/
This site contains OpenCourseWare in Management. The course content is in French.
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) OCW
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OCW project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses. It provides free, searchable, access to JHSPH's course materials for educators, students, and self-learners around the world.
Kaplan University OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.kaplan.edu/
This site provides Open access to materials used in a variety of Kaplan University's courses.
Keio University
http://ocw.dmc.keio.ac.jp/
This site contains notes and materials. The course outlines and assessment tasks are in English, but lecture notes are in Japanese.
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
http://opencourseware.kfupm.edu.sa/
The purpose of KFUPM open courseware is to showcase course material used in the courses of the university to demonstrate KFUPM educational culture and to be part of the global interactions in the open sharing of educational material. The courses on this site are categorized in terms of the academic disciplines in which university offers its academic programs. The site currently includes sample courses and more courses will be added to the site with time.
Korea University
http://ocw.korea.edu/ocw
Contains the university's OCW in English.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
http://web.knust.edu.gh/oer/
Through the OER project, funded by the Hewlett Foundation, began in KNUST as a collaboration between Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi; University of Ghana, Accra, University of Michigan, USA, University of Cape Town, South Africa, University of Western Cape, South Africa and OER Africa. KNUST’s OER initiative is also supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations. As part of this collaboration, an African Health OER Network which includes other African universities has been established to enhance knowledge sharing and KNUST represented by the College of Health Sciences is a part of this network.
Kyoto-U OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/?set_language=en
This site provideas access to lectures and courses at the university. Note that many of the lecture notes are in Japanese.
Kyung Hee University
http://ocw.khu.ac.kr:8080/CTL/
This site provideas access to lectures and courses at the university. Course and syllabus outlines are in English, while lecture notes are in English and Korean.
La Universidad de Monterrey
http://ocw.udem.edu.mx/
Contains the university's OCW (in Spanish).
Michigan State University
http://www.msuglobal.com/ocw
MSU Open CourseWare (OCW) is an initiative of the university led by MSUglobal Learning Ventures. Their goal is to share the expertise of the University through OER in the form of OCW. MSU OCW provides free and open access to a growing collection of formal course content as well as innovative and educational resources.
Middle East Technical University (METU) OpenCourseWare, Turkey
http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/
METU OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. They offer courses in Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Computer Engineering, Educational Sciences, Foreign Language Education, Informatics, Mechanical Engineering and Physics.
MIT OpenCourseWare - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://ocw.mit.edu
One of the most popular and most extensive open courseware collections online, MIT offers 1,900 courses in nearly every subject. The site contains free lecture notes, exams, and videos, and no registration is required.
Nagoya University OpenCourseware (NU OCW), Japan
http://ocw.nagoya-u.jp/index.php?lang=en
This site contains notes and materials from lectures given at Nagoya University. The course outlines and assessment tasks are in English, but lecture notes are in Japanese
National Tsing Hua University
http://my.nthu.edu.tw/~ocw/
This site contains course materials in English and Chinese.
OCW Universidad de Cantabria
http://ocw.unican.es/
Contains the university's OCW (in Spanish).
Open Learn ( (The Open University UK)
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/index.php
The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. In the LearningSpace users can find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum.
Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
Contains open and free courses as well as 'academic versions'"of courses that are led by an instructor (the latter involves a maintenance fee).
Open Content UCT
http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/
The UCT OpenContent directory is the web portal for accessing open teaching and learning content from UCT. Produced by the Open Educational Resources project in the Centre for Educational Technology at UCT with the support of the Shuttleworth Foundation, the directory aims to showcase the teaching efforts of UCT academics and encourage the publication of open resources.
Open Universiteit Nederland
http://www.opener.ou.nl/
Contains the university's OCW (in Dutch).
Open University of Catalonia, Spain
http://ocw.universia.net/en/instituciones/8/open-university-of-catalonia/
Contains the university's OCW (in Spanish).
Open Yale Courses
http://oyc.yale.edu/courselist ?
Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.
Open.Michigan
https://open.umich.edu/education/courses-resources
The University of Michigan's initiative to create and share knowledge, resources, and research with the global learning community - Open.Michigan includes information, updates, discussion, blogs, videos, and podcasts detailing their efforts.
Osaka University, Japan
http://ocw.osaka-u.ac.jp/
Osaka University Open Course Ware Pilot Site is a collections of Osaka University's educational materials which is actually used in the courses taught at Osaka University. Course outlines are in English, and course notes are in Japanese.
Peoples-uni.org
http://www.peoples-uni.org/
Offers courses in public health through Internet based e-learning. The course content is accessible when you register/login.
Pusan National University
http://ocw.pusan.ac.kr/
Course outlines and the syllabus is in English, but lectures are in Korean.
Rai OpenCourseware, India
http://www.rocw.raifoundation.org/
Rai OpenCourseware is Rai Foundation Colleges's inititave of bringing world-class higher education within the reach of one and all. Educational institutions who wish to use Rai OpenCourseWare for their students can also do so by only providing an acknowledgement to Rai Foundation Colleges as 'Source'.
The UMass Boston OpenCourseWare (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
http://ocw.umb.edu/courselist
This site contains OCW over a number of different subjects.
Tokyo Institute of Technology
http://www.ocw.titech.ac.jp/index.php?lang=EN
Lecture outlines are in English.
TU Delft OpenCourseware, The Netherlands
http://ocw.tudelft.nl/
TU Delft OpenCourseWare is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
United Nations University, UNU OpenCourseWare (Japan)
http://ocw.unu.edu/Courses_listing
The UN University is committed to the development of this OCW website that showcases the training and educational programmes implemented by the University in a wide range of areas relevant to the work of the United Nations.
Universidad Cadiz
http://ocw.uca.es/
Contains course materials in Spanish.
University of California College Prep (UCCP) Open Access
http://www.ucopenaccess.org/
Provides prep courses freely available for students and educators to use as supplemental or complementary material. Users can easily move through an entire UCCP course from start to finish, or a lecturer can send studens to an open course to provide them with additional learning opportunities.
University of California, Berkley
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
Contains podcasts and Webcasts of UC Berkeley current and archived courses.
University of California, Irvine
http://B31//ocw.uci.edu/B39
Contains courses in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
University of Notre Dame
http://ocw.nd.edu/
Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. Users can access courses from 20 departments.
University of Puerto Rico
http://www.ocwupr.org:8080/ocw
Contains a number of courses (in Portuguese).
University of the Western Cape - Free Courseware Project
http://freecourseware.uwc.ac.za/freecourseware/courselist
UWC has a long history of supporting the use, development and diffusion of free/open source software and educational resources. In 2005 UWC's Senate passed an ambitious Free Content, Free/Open Courseware Policy, which removed institutional obstacles to publication of open educational resources. The Free Courseware project is part of a broader move towards implementation of this strategy.
University of Tokyo OpenCourseWare (Japan)
http://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/
This site contains OCW over a number of different subjects. The course content is available in English and Japanese.
University of Utah OpenCourseWare Project
http://my.courses.utah.edu/course/category.php?id=3
The University of Utah's OpenCourseWare (OCW) project is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. Also known as U Moodle, the University of Utah has courses in Art, English, Economics, Education, History and the Sciences.
UNow: University of Nottingham OpenCourseWare
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/
U-Now is the University of Nottingham’s formal open courseware initiative, and a member of OCW OpenCourseWare Consortium.
USQ OpenCourseWare (University of Southern Queensland) - Australia
http://ocw.usq.edu.au/
USQ is initially offering sample courses from each of the five faculties and also courses from its Tertiary Preparation Programme.
Utah State University OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.usu.edu/
Utah State OpenCourseWare is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities.
Utah Valley State College
http://open.uvsc.edu/
Containing a number of OCW across subjects, this site requires users to create an account to view and use their OCW materials.
Utah Valley University
http://open.uvu.edu/
Contains two OER/OCW.
Waseda University
http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/
Contains a number of courses in English.
Weber State OpenCourseWare (Weber State University)
http://ocw.weber.edu/
Part of the OCW consortium, the university offers limited OCW in Automotive Technology, Criminal Justice,
English Health Promotion & Human Performance, and Information Systems & Technology.
Western Governors University
http://ocw.wgu.edu/
Western Governors University is a non-profit online university, and is the only accredited university in the U.S. offering competency-based, online degrees. It currently provides access to OCW in Liberal Arts.
China Open Resources for Education (CORE)
http://www.core.org.cn/cn/jpkc/index_en.html
China Open Resources for Education (CORE) is a consortium of universities. It is is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities.
Japan Opencourseware Consortium
http://www.jocw.jp/
JOCW is the consortium of Japanese Universities which have been providing OCW in JAPAN.
Indira Ghandi National Open University
http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is a national open university that offers distance and open education in India and other countries. IGNOU has initiated the establishment of a National Digital Repository of learning resources eGyankosh. This repository envisages to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources of open and distance learning (ODL) institutions of the country. The repository supports seamless aggregation and integration of learning resources in different formats such as self-instructional study materials, audio-video programmes, and archives of radio and television-based live interactive sessions.
Doshisha University Open Courseware
http://opencourse.doshisha.ac.jp/english/study.html
The materials actually used in classes of Doshisha University in Japan are made openly available through the Internet. Courses range by schools, such as the School of Theology or the Institute for Language and Culture. Courses are presented in Japanese.
Universidad Nacional de Columbia
http://www.virtual.unal.edu.co/unvPortal/courses/CoursesViewer.do?reqCode=viewOfFacultys
National University, Columbia offers a wide array of free courses available for Spanish speaking students. Subjects that can be studied include administration, science, nursing, art, agronomy, engineering, architecture, medicine and dentistry.
Open University of Hong Kong
http://freecourseware.ouhk.edu.hk/fc/php/index_e.php?id=2d615705f04bcf974c4b3766411250cf&sid=0&lang=e
The Open University of Hong Kong, being the major local provider of distance education, offers free opportunities for interested learners to have a genuine experience of distance education. Some of the courses are presented in Chinese.
University of Hong Kong
http://www.arch.hku.hk/~cmhui/teach/#Courses
The University of Hong Kong offers several free online courses in sustainable architecture and energy-efficient design. The course materials are all in English.
Subject Specific OER Repositories
ACEMaths Project
www.oerafrica.org/acemaths
The aim of the SAIDE ACEMaths Project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa. The ACEMaths module, Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Diverse Classrooms, is available for downloading for free in two formats - for printing (PDF), and for adaptation (Word).
Tufts Open Courseware
http://ocw.tufts.edu/
Tufts OpenCourseWare provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts' course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities. Tufts OCW
•Publishes Tufts course materials
•Does not require any registration
•Does not grant credit, degrees, or certificates
•Does not provide access to Tufts faculty; however feedback is shared
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
http://www.healcentral.org/
The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
BerkleeShares
http://www.berkleeshares.com
Here you will find free music lessons that you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians. Berklee Shares is: Individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni. Free and open to the music community around the world. A library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files. A glimpse into the educational opportunities provided by Berklee.
Google Computer Science Curriculum Specific Search
http://code.google.com/edu/curriculumsearch/
The CS Curriculum Search will help you find teaching materials that have been published to the web by faculty from CS departments around the world. You can refine your search to display just lectures, assignments or reference materials for a set of courses.
Fulbright Economics Teaching Program (FETP) OCW (Vietnam)
http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/home.cfm
FETP OpenCourseWare is a resource for people working or studying in policy-related fields to increase their knowledge and explore new approaches to learning and curriculum development. Instructors are encouraged to adopt FETP’s curricular materials for use in their own courses. Students may use FETP’s materials to guide independent study. Course syllabi, lecture notes, reading lists and problem sets used in many one-year mid-career program and executive education courses are available online.
Leadership Initiative for Public Health in East Africa (LIPHEA)
http://www.liphea.org/
Initiative for Public Health in East Africa (LIPHEA) initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of Makerere University School of Public Health (MUSPH) and Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) to not only provide effective public health leadership for Uganda and Tanzania, but also to catalyze the training of public health leaders in the whole region.
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)
http://www.tessafrica.net/
This site offers a range of OER in four languages to support school based teacher education and training.
Stanford University (School of Engineering)
http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx
View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students. Stanford encourages fellow educators to use Stanford Engineering course materials in their own classrooms. A Creative Commons licence allows for free and open use, reuse, adaptation and redistribution of Stanford Engineering Everywhere material.
African Health OER Network
http://www.oerafrica.org/healthproject/
This is a collaboration of institutions seeking to develop a sustainable and scalable model for the systematic rollout of OER to support health education on the continent. The OER materials produced in this initiative will be made freely available to students, faculty, and self-learners around the world through a Creative Commons licence.
CTisUs (vodacsts)
http://www.ctisus.com/vodcasts/index.html
CT is us is created and maintained by The Advanced Medical Imaging Laboratory (AMIL). AMIL is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to research, education, and the advancement of patient care using medical imaging with a focus on spiral CT and 3D imaging. The AMIL is part of the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, MD.
IMARK (Information Management Resource Kit)
http://www.imarkgroup.org/modulesintro_en.asp?m=2
The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management. IMARK is being developed as a series of modules on CD-ROM and on the Internet, offered free of charge, which will introduce the latest concepts, approaches and tools for information management. Each IMARK module focuses on a specific area of information management, with a curriculum designed, developed and reviewed by subject matter experts. The modules are being developed using the latest methods in e-learning, providing an interactive environment for self-paced learning.
Chinese Quality Open Courseware (CQOCW)
http://ocw.core.org.cn/CORE/
To share Chinese Quality Courses worldwide, China Open Resources for Education (CORE) has launched the project of writing “Chinese Quality Open Courseware (CQOCW)” into English in 2006.
Oxford University Mathematics OpenCourseWare
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/opencourseware/
Has a number of Mathematics courses which are published under the terms of OpenCourseWare
GEM4 OpenCourseWare
http://gem4.educommons.net/
GEM4 enables the brokering of engineers, life scientists and medical professionals with shared facilities and joint students and post-doctoral fellows to tackle major problems in the context of human health and diseases that call for state-of-the-art experimental and computational tools in cell and molecular mechanics, biology and medicine.
Robotics CourseWare
http://roboticscourseware.org/
RoboticsCourseWare.org is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. The site was created for the primary purpose of providing a resource to faculty at colleges and universities to facilitate the implementation of new robotics courses or the improvement of existing courses. The aim is to enable institutions without core expertise in robotics to begin to introduce these concepts into their curricula.
In developing and populating the site, they have prioritised the following:
# Providing original, easily-modifiable curricular content, typically in .ppt and .doc formats
# Covering the range of primary areas of robotics pedagogy, including robot mechanics, control, motion planning, vision, and localisation, with less emphasis on secondary areas and courses in which robotics is used as platform to teach concepts in other academic areas.
nanoHUB
http://nanohub.org
A resource for nanoscience and technology, the nanoHUB was created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology. It is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts over 1600 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. Most importantly, the nanoHUB offers simulation tools which you can access from your web browser, so you can not only learn about but also simulate nanotechnology devices.
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
Science Commons has three interlocking initiatives designed to accelerate the research cycle — the continuous production and reuse of knowledge that is at the heart of the scientific method. Together, they form the building blocks of a new collaborative infrastructure to make scientific discovery easier by design. Making scientific research “re-useful”. We help people and organizations open and mark their research and data for reuse. Enabling “one-click” access to research materials — We help streamline the materials-transfer process so researchers can easily replicate, verify and extend research. Integrating fragmented information sources — We help researchers find, analyze and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language.
AgEcon Search
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/
AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including working papers, conference papers and journal articles. There are 68 subject headings, which run the full gamut of agricultural economics and agribusiness.
www.oerafrica.org/acemaths
The aim of the SAIDE ACEMaths Project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa. The ACEMaths module, Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Diverse Classrooms, is available for downloading for free in two formats - for printing (PDF), and for adaptation (Word).
Tufts Open Courseware
http://ocw.tufts.edu/
Tufts OpenCourseWare provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts' course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities. Tufts OCW
•Publishes Tufts course materials
•Does not require any registration
•Does not grant credit, degrees, or certificates
•Does not provide access to Tufts faculty; however feedback is shared
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
http://www.healcentral.org/
The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.
BerkleeShares
http://www.berkleeshares.com
Here you will find free music lessons that you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians. Berklee Shares is: Individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni. Free and open to the music community around the world. A library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files. A glimpse into the educational opportunities provided by Berklee.
Google Computer Science Curriculum Specific Search
http://code.google.com/edu/curriculumsearch/
The CS Curriculum Search will help you find teaching materials that have been published to the web by faculty from CS departments around the world. You can refine your search to display just lectures, assignments or reference materials for a set of courses.
Fulbright Economics Teaching Program (FETP) OCW (Vietnam)
http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/home.cfm
FETP OpenCourseWare is a resource for people working or studying in policy-related fields to increase their knowledge and explore new approaches to learning and curriculum development. Instructors are encouraged to adopt FETP’s curricular materials for use in their own courses. Students may use FETP’s materials to guide independent study. Course syllabi, lecture notes, reading lists and problem sets used in many one-year mid-career program and executive education courses are available online.
Leadership Initiative for Public Health in East Africa (LIPHEA)
http://www.liphea.org/
Initiative for Public Health in East Africa (LIPHEA) initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of Makerere University School of Public Health (MUSPH) and Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) to not only provide effective public health leadership for Uganda and Tanzania, but also to catalyze the training of public health leaders in the whole region.
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)
http://www.tessafrica.net/
This site offers a range of OER in four languages to support school based teacher education and training.
Stanford University (School of Engineering)
http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx
View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students. Stanford encourages fellow educators to use Stanford Engineering course materials in their own classrooms. A Creative Commons licence allows for free and open use, reuse, adaptation and redistribution of Stanford Engineering Everywhere material.
African Health OER Network
http://www.oerafrica.org/healthproject/
This is a collaboration of institutions seeking to develop a sustainable and scalable model for the systematic rollout of OER to support health education on the continent. The OER materials produced in this initiative will be made freely available to students, faculty, and self-learners around the world through a Creative Commons licence.
CTisUs (vodacsts)
http://www.ctisus.com/vodcasts/index.html
CT is us is created and maintained by The Advanced Medical Imaging Laboratory (AMIL). AMIL is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to research, education, and the advancement of patient care using medical imaging with a focus on spiral CT and 3D imaging. The AMIL is part of the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, MD.
IMARK (Information Management Resource Kit)
http://www.imarkgroup.org/modulesintro_en.asp?m=2
The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distance learning resources, tools and communities on information management. IMARK is being developed as a series of modules on CD-ROM and on the Internet, offered free of charge, which will introduce the latest concepts, approaches and tools for information management. Each IMARK module focuses on a specific area of information management, with a curriculum designed, developed and reviewed by subject matter experts. The modules are being developed using the latest methods in e-learning, providing an interactive environment for self-paced learning.
Chinese Quality Open Courseware (CQOCW)
http://ocw.core.org.cn/CORE/
To share Chinese Quality Courses worldwide, China Open Resources for Education (CORE) has launched the project of writing “Chinese Quality Open Courseware (CQOCW)” into English in 2006.
Oxford University Mathematics OpenCourseWare
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/opencourseware/
Has a number of Mathematics courses which are published under the terms of OpenCourseWare
GEM4 OpenCourseWare
http://gem4.educommons.net/
GEM4 enables the brokering of engineers, life scientists and medical professionals with shared facilities and joint students and post-doctoral fellows to tackle major problems in the context of human health and diseases that call for state-of-the-art experimental and computational tools in cell and molecular mechanics, biology and medicine.
Robotics CourseWare
http://roboticscourseware.org/
RoboticsCourseWare.org is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. The site was created for the primary purpose of providing a resource to faculty at colleges and universities to facilitate the implementation of new robotics courses or the improvement of existing courses. The aim is to enable institutions without core expertise in robotics to begin to introduce these concepts into their curricula.
In developing and populating the site, they have prioritised the following:
# Providing original, easily-modifiable curricular content, typically in .ppt and .doc formats
# Covering the range of primary areas of robotics pedagogy, including robot mechanics, control, motion planning, vision, and localisation, with less emphasis on secondary areas and courses in which robotics is used as platform to teach concepts in other academic areas.
nanoHUB
http://nanohub.org
A resource for nanoscience and technology, the nanoHUB was created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology. It is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts over 1600 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. Most importantly, the nanoHUB offers simulation tools which you can access from your web browser, so you can not only learn about but also simulate nanotechnology devices.
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
Science Commons has three interlocking initiatives designed to accelerate the research cycle — the continuous production and reuse of knowledge that is at the heart of the scientific method. Together, they form the building blocks of a new collaborative infrastructure to make scientific discovery easier by design. Making scientific research “re-useful”. We help people and organizations open and mark their research and data for reuse. Enabling “one-click” access to research materials — We help streamline the materials-transfer process so researchers can easily replicate, verify and extend research. Integrating fragmented information sources — We help researchers find, analyze and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language.
AgEcon Search
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/
AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including working papers, conference papers and journal articles. There are 68 subject headings, which run the full gamut of agricultural economics and agribusiness.
OER Search Facilities
As you can see there are a large collection of OER available.
It was therefore a challenge for both developers and IT specialists to develop a way of finding OER on the web. As we have said, Google does not provide the assurance when you search for something (unless you have a very specific search string). Several Search Facilities were developed.
Examples are:
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx
COL provides a Google Custom search, which will initially return all OCW and OER results from the higher-education institutions and OER repositories that have been selected. Once on the results page, users can refine their search further by selecting only OCWs or only OER or only OCWs from certain regions. They also provides the Yahoo Pipes search field, to help users find specific OCWs.
Discover Ed
http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/
This search facility is provided by Creative Commons to help users find OER.
Folksemantic
http://www.folksemantic.com
Browse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OER). "This is an open educational resource recommender. There's also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It's all free and open source, and the code is available".
Freelearning - Search for OER sites
http://freelearning.bccampus.ca/searchOER.php
This Google Custom Search Engine allows users to focus their search on sites which have already been identified by Freelearning as high quality OER, reducing the clutter of a generic Google search.
Google OCW
http://opencontent.org/googleocw/
This custom search engine allows users to focus their search on finding OCW.
OER Recommender
http://www.oerrecommender.org/
OER Recommender makes it easy for OER providers to provide links to related resources. It links users to OER related to web pages you are browsing.
OpenCourseWare Finder
http://ocwfinder.com/
This search facility developed by Folksemantics which allows you to search for OER using a keyword search or by a search by tagged items.
It was therefore a challenge for both developers and IT specialists to develop a way of finding OER on the web. As we have said, Google does not provide the assurance when you search for something (unless you have a very specific search string). Several Search Facilities were developed.
Examples are:
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/OCW-OER.aspx
COL provides a Google Custom search, which will initially return all OCW and OER results from the higher-education institutions and OER repositories that have been selected. Once on the results page, users can refine their search further by selecting only OCWs or only OER or only OCWs from certain regions. They also provides the Yahoo Pipes search field, to help users find specific OCWs.
Discover Ed
http://discovered.creativecommons.org/search/
This search facility is provided by Creative Commons to help users find OER.
Folksemantic
http://www.folksemantic.com
Browse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OER). "This is an open educational resource recommender. There's also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It's all free and open source, and the code is available".
Freelearning - Search for OER sites
http://freelearning.bccampus.ca/searchOER.php
This Google Custom Search Engine allows users to focus their search on sites which have already been identified by Freelearning as high quality OER, reducing the clutter of a generic Google search.
Google OCW
http://opencontent.org/googleocw/
This custom search engine allows users to focus their search on finding OCW.
OER Recommender
http://www.oerrecommender.org/
OER Recommender makes it easy for OER providers to provide links to related resources. It links users to OER related to web pages you are browsing.
OpenCourseWare Finder
http://ocwfinder.com/
This search facility developed by Folksemantics which allows you to search for OER using a keyword search or by a search by tagged items.
Open Access Journals
Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself". There have also been several modifications of open access journals that have considerably different natures: hybrid open access journals and delayed open access journals. (Wikipedia).
If you are intrested in Open Access Journals, read more about Open Accees Journals, the academic debate (for and against), pros and cons and current problems and projects in Wikipedia.
To access Open Access Journals go to the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/).
If you are intrested in Open Access Journals, read more about Open Accees Journals, the academic debate (for and against), pros and cons and current problems and projects in Wikipedia.
To access Open Access Journals go to the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/).
School level OER Repositories, Initatives or Projects
Although the majority of repositories are focussing on Higher Education or Teacher Education, several school level OER developments have taken place.
Some of the repositories are:
Curriki
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
A website where the community shares and collaborates on free and open source curricula for K-12. Curriki is a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. It is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them.
Free High School Science Texts (FHSST)
http://fhsst.org
Free High School Science Texts developed OER Science and Mathematics textbooks for South African schools. Their obejctives include to provide complete high school science/maths text that can be used for free anywhere else in the world as needed and that is easy to read and understand even for second-language English speakers.
OER 4 Open Schools
http://www.col.org/progServ/programmes/education/Pages/openSchooling.aspx
COL is undertaking a range of activities to strengthen th capacity and sustainability of open schools in developing countires. This includes creating practical handbooks, hosting capacity building workshops, commissioning research and providing access to digital resources.
Mathematics and Science in Utah
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1990
There is some really excellent OER work going on in Utah. The two year total for the open science textbooks project is almost 4000 students. The Open High School of Utah has all the content online (and in Moodle format) for their complete 9th and 10th grade curriculum. And now a two district collaboration (Jordan-Granite Consortium) has CC licensed the collection of resources they are providing to teachers as they transition to the Common Core State Standards in mathematics:
Grades 6-8 Mathematics CCSS Resources – http://middlemathccss.wordpress.com/
Secondary Math CCSS Resources – http://secmathccss.wordpress.com/
These collections include both student-facing resources and a significant amount of teacher-facing material. So far, teachers in the partner districts are:
Some of the repositories are:
Curriki
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
A website where the community shares and collaborates on free and open source curricula for K-12. Curriki is a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. It is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them.
Free High School Science Texts (FHSST)
http://fhsst.org
Free High School Science Texts developed OER Science and Mathematics textbooks for South African schools. Their obejctives include to provide complete high school science/maths text that can be used for free anywhere else in the world as needed and that is easy to read and understand even for second-language English speakers.
OER 4 Open Schools
http://www.col.org/progServ/programmes/education/Pages/openSchooling.aspx
COL is undertaking a range of activities to strengthen th capacity and sustainability of open schools in developing countires. This includes creating practical handbooks, hosting capacity building workshops, commissioning research and providing access to digital resources.
Mathematics and Science in Utah
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1990
There is some really excellent OER work going on in Utah. The two year total for the open science textbooks project is almost 4000 students. The Open High School of Utah has all the content online (and in Moodle format) for their complete 9th and 10th grade curriculum. And now a two district collaboration (Jordan-Granite Consortium) has CC licensed the collection of resources they are providing to teachers as they transition to the Common Core State Standards in mathematics:
Grades 6-8 Mathematics CCSS Resources – http://middlemathccss.wordpress.com/
Secondary Math CCSS Resources – http://secmathccss.wordpress.com/
These collections include both student-facing resources and a significant amount of teacher-facing material. So far, teachers in the partner districts are:
- Downloading and studying the benchmark tests to better focus on where they want students to end up.
- Planning (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily) using all the overview documents (I Can Statements, Year at a Glance, and others)
- Accessing the conceptual foundation documents for deeper math content understanding and preparing for instruction. (Initial feedback is that these documents are far more effective than textbook teacher editions.)
- Accessing the instructional resources for lessons and student work pages.
Open Textbooks
Some initatives publish whole textbooks as OER. Thay are free to download and use according to the license of the materials.
Some expamples are:
http://oerconsortium.org
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu
http://fhsst.org/
Some expamples are:
http://oerconsortium.org
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu
http://fhsst.org/
OER Tools/Platforms to share/Ecosystems
This category adds value to the OER movement and povides a whole set of tools, resources and collaboration opportunities to share OERs. Examples are:
EduCommons
http://educommons.com/
eduCommons is a content management system designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects. eduCommons will help you develop and manage an open access collection of course materials. It is built around a workflow process that guides content developers through the process of publishing materials in an openly accessible format.
Eduforge, Innovation for Education
https://eduforge.org/
Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. Users are welcome to use the community resources or start their own project space. Eduforge is designed to provide tools for collaboration at two levels. The Eduforge Community is for everyone with an interest in education to share their thoughts and experience. Eduforge Projects supports more focused research, discussions, and software development for education. Users can register a project of their own, or request to join one of the many innovative project communities.
Folksemantic
http://www.folksemantic.com
Browse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OERs). "This is an open educational resource recommender. There's also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It's all free and open source, and the code is available" - Stephen Downes. It also allows you to meet people with whom you can find, discuss, remix, and develop learning resources.
OER Grapevine
http://www.oergrapevine.org/OER_projects
OER Grapevine's mission is to promote discussion and cooperation among projects relating to open educational resources (OER). The site was created in 2006 Rob Lucas, and includes an email list and this wiki. This wiki will be used to keep a list and short descriptions of OER projects.
Open Clip Art Library
http://www.openclipart.org/
This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used.
Open Everything
http://openeverything.wik.is/
Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's about thinking, doing and being open.
Open Font Library
http://openfontlibrary.org
The goal of the Open Font Library project is to collect free software fonts - those that may be used, changed and shared freely.
Open Source Open Courseware Prototype System (OOPS)
http://www.myoops.org/
Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS) supports a volunteer effort in widening access to world-class knowledge for the Chinese-speaking population around the globe. The mission of OOPS is threefold: To break down language barriers through adding translation and captioning; To disseminate OER concept and stimulate use through speech, media coverage, and community building. To encourage original Chinese contributions of OER through partnership and consultation.
OpenCast Community
http://www.opencastproject.org/homepage
The Opencast community is collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audio visual content in academia. Through the mailing list, website and collaboration among its members, the community offers guidance and information to help others choose the best approach for the delivery and usage of rich media online.
Peer 2 Peer University
http://www.p2pu.org/
The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well.
The Bazaar
http://www.bazaar.org/
The Bazaar is a community portal for people who want to use, exchange and share Open Source Software and resources to support learning.
UNESCO OER Community
http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
This site was originally created by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a place where members of the UNESCO OER Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. The site contains useful resources needed to understand what OER is about, and how to use/contribute/collaborate.
WikiEducator
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
The WikiEducator 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 (OER) on how to create OER; networking on funding proposals developed as free content. It has over 20,000 registered users and over 1 million hits per month on their site.
WikiTeach
http://www.wikiteach.org/
This lesson plan wiki is for teachers who want to share their lessons with others. Think of it as a Wikipedia of instructional content. Login is not required, but you can log in to take advantage of enhanced features. The free lesson plans available on this site are from a wide age range including preschool lesson plans, elementary lesson plans, middle school lesson plans, high school lesson plans and college lesson plans. Subjects covered in these free lesson plans can be from any subject, including math lesson plans, english lesson plans, language lesson plans, history lesson plans, social studies lesson plans, art lesson plans, science lesson plans and more.
Open Education News
http://openeducationnews.org/
The field of open education is gaining momentum and energy. As additional projects, foundations, universities, and other participants join the movement, the need increases for a single source to gather, sort, analyze, synthesize, and disseminate news related to open education. Open Education News provides you with a daily dose of the most relevant open education news from around the world.
Open Education - Free Education For All
http://www.openeducation.net/
OpenEducation.net is a site dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today.
OLCOS (Open eLearning Content Observatory Services)
http://www.olcos.org/english/home/
OLCOS 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.
Presently the benefits and characteristics of open source software in education is apparent and widely acknowledged, this is not the case with respect to the concept of digital open content that may particularly benefit flexible and open learning models (e.g. collaborative knowledge and skills building) in schools, higher educational institutions and vocational training. Contains a useful a set of online tutorials that provide information and guidance on how to practically work with ODEC.
OLNet (Open Learning Network project)
http://olnet.org/node/68
The aim of OLnet is to tackle gathering evidence and methods about how we can research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) but also looking at other influences. We want to gather evidence together but also spot the ideas that people see emerging from the opportunities.
Harvey Project
http://opencourse.org/collaboratories/harveyproject
An international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. Founded in 1998, the Harvey Project has over a hundred participants in nearly twenty countries. It has received funding from the US National Science Foundation. The Harvey Project has developed over forty learning objects, mostly Java simulations and Flash(tm) animations.
Open of Course
http://open-of-course.org/courses/
The focus is on educational information where people can benefit from in daily life. Most of the courses currently offered here are related to computers, internet and learning languages. In the future we hope to offer more content on things like getting a job, business, hobbies, earning or saving money, self-improvement, etc. Open-Of-Course is based on Moodle, an open source electronic learning environment (ELO). Our portal is free for everyone to use.
Professional Education Organization International (PEOI)
http://www.peoi.org/
Professional Education Organization International (or PEOI for short) was created, and is run by volunteers who believe that it is time for open post-secondary education be made available to all free of charge, and that the Internet is making this possible. On-line course content to upgrade the skills of aspiring professionals, serving businesses that employ them, universities that award degrees, and faculty that offer instruction.
Uchannel (University Channel)
http://uc.princeton.edu/main/
The UChannel (also known as the University Channel) makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format.
Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) Courses
http://www.vussc.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=27
On behalf of Commonwealth Ministers of Education, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is co-ordinating the development of a Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC). Thirtytwo countries are now actively engaged in making the VUSSC a reality. VUSSC countries have chosen to focus on creating skills-related courses in areas such as tourism, entrepreneurship, professional development, disaster management and a range of technical and vocational subjects. In this section, you can get information on various courses, course materials, guidebooks/handbooks, toolkits and other resources open to the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth.
Wikiversity
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. They invite teachers, students, and researchers to join them in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities.
EduCommons
http://educommons.com/
eduCommons is a content management system designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects. eduCommons will help you develop and manage an open access collection of course materials. It is built around a workflow process that guides content developers through the process of publishing materials in an openly accessible format.
Eduforge, Innovation for Education
https://eduforge.org/
Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. Users are welcome to use the community resources or start their own project space. Eduforge is designed to provide tools for collaboration at two levels. The Eduforge Community is for everyone with an interest in education to share their thoughts and experience. Eduforge Projects supports more focused research, discussions, and software development for education. Users can register a project of their own, or request to join one of the many innovative project communities.
Folksemantic
http://www.folksemantic.com
Browse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OERs). "This is an open educational resource recommender. There's also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It's all free and open source, and the code is available" - Stephen Downes. It also allows you to meet people with whom you can find, discuss, remix, and develop learning resources.
OER Grapevine
http://www.oergrapevine.org/OER_projects
OER Grapevine's mission is to promote discussion and cooperation among projects relating to open educational resources (OER). The site was created in 2006 Rob Lucas, and includes an email list and this wiki. This wiki will be used to keep a list and short descriptions of OER projects.
Open Clip Art Library
http://www.openclipart.org/
This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used.
Open Everything
http://openeverything.wik.is/
Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's about thinking, doing and being open.
Open Font Library
http://openfontlibrary.org
The goal of the Open Font Library project is to collect free software fonts - those that may be used, changed and shared freely.
Open Source Open Courseware Prototype System (OOPS)
http://www.myoops.org/
Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS) supports a volunteer effort in widening access to world-class knowledge for the Chinese-speaking population around the globe. The mission of OOPS is threefold: To break down language barriers through adding translation and captioning; To disseminate OER concept and stimulate use through speech, media coverage, and community building. To encourage original Chinese contributions of OER through partnership and consultation.
OpenCast Community
http://www.opencastproject.org/homepage
The Opencast community is collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audio visual content in academia. Through the mailing list, website and collaboration among its members, the community offers guidance and information to help others choose the best approach for the delivery and usage of rich media online.
Peer 2 Peer University
http://www.p2pu.org/
The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well.
The Bazaar
http://www.bazaar.org/
The Bazaar is a community portal for people who want to use, exchange and share Open Source Software and resources to support learning.
UNESCO OER Community
http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
This site was originally created by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a place where members of the UNESCO OER Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. The site contains useful resources needed to understand what OER is about, and how to use/contribute/collaborate.
WikiEducator
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
The WikiEducator 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 (OER) on how to create OER; networking on funding proposals developed as free content. It has over 20,000 registered users and over 1 million hits per month on their site.
WikiTeach
http://www.wikiteach.org/
This lesson plan wiki is for teachers who want to share their lessons with others. Think of it as a Wikipedia of instructional content. Login is not required, but you can log in to take advantage of enhanced features. The free lesson plans available on this site are from a wide age range including preschool lesson plans, elementary lesson plans, middle school lesson plans, high school lesson plans and college lesson plans. Subjects covered in these free lesson plans can be from any subject, including math lesson plans, english lesson plans, language lesson plans, history lesson plans, social studies lesson plans, art lesson plans, science lesson plans and more.
Open Education News
http://openeducationnews.org/
The field of open education is gaining momentum and energy. As additional projects, foundations, universities, and other participants join the movement, the need increases for a single source to gather, sort, analyze, synthesize, and disseminate news related to open education. Open Education News provides you with a daily dose of the most relevant open education news from around the world.
Open Education - Free Education For All
http://www.openeducation.net/
OpenEducation.net is a site dedicated to tracking the changes occurring in education today.
OLCOS (Open eLearning Content Observatory Services)
http://www.olcos.org/english/home/
OLCOS 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.
Presently the benefits and characteristics of open source software in education is apparent and widely acknowledged, this is not the case with respect to the concept of digital open content that may particularly benefit flexible and open learning models (e.g. collaborative knowledge and skills building) in schools, higher educational institutions and vocational training. Contains a useful a set of online tutorials that provide information and guidance on how to practically work with ODEC.
OLNet (Open Learning Network project)
http://olnet.org/node/68
The aim of OLnet is to tackle gathering evidence and methods about how we can research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to Open Educational Resources (OER) but also looking at other influences. We want to gather evidence together but also spot the ideas that people see emerging from the opportunities.
Harvey Project
http://opencourse.org/collaboratories/harveyproject
An international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. Founded in 1998, the Harvey Project has over a hundred participants in nearly twenty countries. It has received funding from the US National Science Foundation. The Harvey Project has developed over forty learning objects, mostly Java simulations and Flash(tm) animations.
Open of Course
http://open-of-course.org/courses/
The focus is on educational information where people can benefit from in daily life. Most of the courses currently offered here are related to computers, internet and learning languages. In the future we hope to offer more content on things like getting a job, business, hobbies, earning or saving money, self-improvement, etc. Open-Of-Course is based on Moodle, an open source electronic learning environment (ELO). Our portal is free for everyone to use.
Professional Education Organization International (PEOI)
http://www.peoi.org/
Professional Education Organization International (or PEOI for short) was created, and is run by volunteers who believe that it is time for open post-secondary education be made available to all free of charge, and that the Internet is making this possible. On-line course content to upgrade the skills of aspiring professionals, serving businesses that employ them, universities that award degrees, and faculty that offer instruction.
Uchannel (University Channel)
http://uc.princeton.edu/main/
The UChannel (also known as the University Channel) makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format.
Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) Courses
http://www.vussc.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=27
On behalf of Commonwealth Ministers of Education, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is co-ordinating the development of a Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC). Thirtytwo countries are now actively engaged in making the VUSSC a reality. VUSSC countries have chosen to focus on creating skills-related courses in areas such as tourism, entrepreneurship, professional development, disaster management and a range of technical and vocational subjects. In this section, you can get information on various courses, course materials, guidebooks/handbooks, toolkits and other resources open to the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth.
Wikiversity
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning. They invite teachers, students, and researchers to join them in creating open educational resources and collaborative learning communities.
Find an exemplary collection of tools and standards for producing open educational content at: http://wikieducator.org/Exemplary_Collection_of_tools_and_standards_for_producing_open_educational_content
Organisations with an OER Strategy/Policy
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
http://www.col.org/
COL has been involved in the creation of course materials with many of their partners over the years. Most of their material is freely available for download and adaption, but some may carry restrictive licences (http://www.col.org/resources/crsmaterials/pages/default.aspx).
COL has defined a new policy on open educational resources (OER). In addition to recognizing the importance of OER for teaching, learning, and collaboration among institutions and governments,COL states that it will “encourage and support governments and institutions to establish supportive policy frameworks to introduce practices relating to OER.”
The new policy specifies that COL will “release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.” The CC BY-SA license is currently used for more than 17 million Wikipedia articles in 270 languages.
South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE)
http://www.saide.org.za
The South African Institute for Distance Education's (SAIDE) has adopted a policy on Open Educational Resources (OER). The concept of OER, is strongly aligned to and supportive of SAIDE’s mission statement and its core aims. Specifically, SAIDE is ‘committed to increasing equitable and meaningful access to knowledge, skills and learning through the adoption of open learning principles and distance education strategies’. Open licensing of materials is designed specifically to deepen equitable and meaningful access to knowledge by reducing the cost of access to Intellectual Property that has been developed in education systems and prevent unnecessary duplication of efforts.
Open Education Resource Foundation (OERF)
http://www.wikieducator.org/OERF
The OER Foundation Limited (OER) is a non-profit company registered under the New Zealand Companies Act of 1993. The establishment and objectives of the OER Foundation Limited were approved by resolution of the Council of Otago Polytechnic. The capacity of the company is restricted to the carrying on of business and other activities for the charitable purposes of education and other purposes beneficial to the community.
http://www.col.org/
COL has been involved in the creation of course materials with many of their partners over the years. Most of their material is freely available for download and adaption, but some may carry restrictive licences (http://www.col.org/resources/crsmaterials/pages/default.aspx).
COL has defined a new policy on open educational resources (OER). In addition to recognizing the importance of OER for teaching, learning, and collaboration among institutions and governments,COL states that it will “encourage and support governments and institutions to establish supportive policy frameworks to introduce practices relating to OER.”
The new policy specifies that COL will “release its own materials under the most feasible open licenses including the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.” The CC BY-SA license is currently used for more than 17 million Wikipedia articles in 270 languages.
South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE)
http://www.saide.org.za
The South African Institute for Distance Education's (SAIDE) has adopted a policy on Open Educational Resources (OER). The concept of OER, is strongly aligned to and supportive of SAIDE’s mission statement and its core aims. Specifically, SAIDE is ‘committed to increasing equitable and meaningful access to knowledge, skills and learning through the adoption of open learning principles and distance education strategies’. Open licensing of materials is designed specifically to deepen equitable and meaningful access to knowledge by reducing the cost of access to Intellectual Property that has been developed in education systems and prevent unnecessary duplication of efforts.
Open Education Resource Foundation (OERF)
http://www.wikieducator.org/OERF
The OER Foundation Limited (OER) is a non-profit company registered under the New Zealand Companies Act of 1993. The establishment and objectives of the OER Foundation Limited were approved by resolution of the Council of Otago Polytechnic. The capacity of the company is restricted to the carrying on of business and other activities for the charitable purposes of education and other purposes beneficial to the community.
Find an Exemplary Collection of institutions with OER policy: http://wikieducator.org/Exemplary_Collection_of_institutions_with_OER_policy
TVET OER
TVET is one of the most neglegted areas in OER. Please check:
Australian Flexible Learning Framework - Learning Object Repository Network (LORN)
http://lorn.flexiblelearning.net.au/repositories/
LORN currently has seven member repositories contributing more than 2500 learning objects for download in a wide range of industries and subject areas, including business, community services, electro technology, horticulture, tourism, and hospitality. The focus is on TVET.
SOFIA (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) OpenCourseWare
http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning. The focus is on exploring ways of supporting instruction and student learning using web-based resources.
Australian Flexible Learning Framework - Learning Object Repository Network (LORN)
http://lorn.flexiblelearning.net.au/repositories/
LORN currently has seven member repositories contributing more than 2500 learning objects for download in a wide range of industries and subject areas, including business, community services, electro technology, horticulture, tourism, and hospitality. The focus is on TVET.
SOFIA (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets) OpenCourseWare
http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/
The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning. The focus is on exploring ways of supporting instruction and student learning using web-based resources.
OER Images
When developing OER, or just when you develop your own materials, it is important that you make use of images that are not restricted by any copyright.
Read: Creative Commons - Images and You http://summify.com/story/Tj8revk25imlALFI/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/creative-commons-images-and-you.ars?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=general&utm_source=share
You can find images at:
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Also have a look at:
http://www.archive.org/
http://www.clker.com
Check the following link to find a learning module on how to use OER images at:
http://oerworkshop.pbworks.com
Check out module 3 - Finding free on open-licensed digital images.
Check the following link and find out how to use free images through this free WikiEducator tutorial at:
http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_rich_text_editor_tutorials/Images
Read: Creative Commons - Images and You http://summify.com/story/Tj8revk25imlALFI/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/creative-commons-images-and-you.ars?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=general&utm_source=share
You can find images at:
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Also have a look at:
http://www.archive.org/
http://www.clker.com
Check the following link to find a learning module on how to use OER images at:
http://oerworkshop.pbworks.com
Check out module 3 - Finding free on open-licensed digital images.
Check the following link and find out how to use free images through this free WikiEducator tutorial at:
http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_rich_text_editor_tutorials/Images
How to find OER - A tutorial
If you want to work through a tutorial on how to find OER, select the following link: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Educational_Content/olcos/SEARCH
Activity 4
Make a selection of websites that you want to explore. See if the aims and ojectives of the site address your needs. Give your impressions of the site. Compile a list of useful sites that you would like to revisit and explore more.
Go to Module 5 - Using OER
Go to Module 5 - Using OER