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+ | The following is a list of the some of the most compelling OER projects and implementations of CC in educational policies around the world. For a more comprehensive listing, see the [[Casestudies|Case Studies]] project. | ||
==Argentina== | ==Argentina== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/Gleducar|Gleducar]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Gleducar|Gleducar]]=== | ||
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Started in 2002, [http://www.gleducar.org.ar/ Gleducar] is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleducar] Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/deed.es CC Attribution-ShareAlike license]. | Started in 2002, [http://www.gleducar.org.ar/ Gleducar] is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleducar] Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/deed.es CC Attribution-ShareAlike license]. | ||
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+ | ===[[Case_Studies/Encipel|Encipel]]=== | ||
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+ | Started in 2012, [http://www.encipel.com/ Encipel] is an educational community in which users of any gender and age, create documents to share their knowledge. These documents are then reviewed and improved by the community, offering a better quality of content. We use the license CC BY-NC 3.0.[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/]. So all the information is open to everyone. We have decided to use this license because we want people to enhance knowledge an it´s distribution | ||
+ | Since the start we have improved the information, quality of the site an tools available for users. It´s still a very unknown project, but we expect it can grow more. | ||
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==Australia== | ==Australia== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Southern_Queensland_OpenCourseWare|University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Southern_Queensland_OpenCourseWare|University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare]]=== | ||
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+ | The [http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW)] provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from its [http://www.usq.edu.au/ltsu/learnsupp/tpp/default.htm Tertiary Preparation Program]. USQ is the only Australian member of the [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ OpenCourseWare Consortium], an [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/ wallputih] [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 international collaboration] of more than 230 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ All USQ OCW is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. | ||
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− | + | ==Brazil== | |
− | + | ===OER-Brazil Project=== | |
− | The [http:// | + | The OER-Brazil Project, or [http://rea.net.br/site/ Recursos Educacionais Abertos] [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/2012/10/4shared-com.html 4shared], is a website aimed at providing information on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Portuguese language speakers. The site features an extensive FAQ pointing to reference documents, media, and more. The site lists OER projects from Brazil and the rest of the world highlighting their CC license implementations. The OER-Brazil Project also provides information on current bills that aim to promote OER in Brazil if approved, and hopes to engage Brazilian society in the discussions and improvement of such policies. English language navigation of the site is in progress. |
==Canada== | ==Canada== | ||
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Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds first [http://www.aupress.ca/ University Press] dedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license]. Athabasca University is also the base for the [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page UNESCO OER Community] that was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. | Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds first [http://www.aupress.ca/ University Press] dedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license]. Athabasca University is also the base for the [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page UNESCO OER Community] that was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. | ||
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+ | ===[[Case_Studies/BCcampus|BCcampus]]=== | ||
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+ | The BCcampus initiative is a collaboration of 25 post-secondary institutions contributing and sharing open educational resources under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license or a BCcampus license for use within the system. It is an "online learning and educational technology service agency established and funded entirely by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development." BCcampus also manages an [http://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ Open Textbook Project] and recently gathered a group of librarians interested in furthering OER called [http://bcoerguides.wikispaces.com/Participants BCOER]. | ||
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− | === | + | ===Ontario Online Learning Portal=== |
− | + | In addition to hosting OER, the Ontario Online Learning Portal has developed this OER video primer featuring UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources Dr. Rory McGreal: http://contactnorth.ca/tips-tools/open-educational-resources/videos. | |
==Chile== | ==Chile== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/Cybertesis|Cybertesis]] at the Universidad de Chile=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Cybertesis|Cybertesis]] at the Universidad de Chile=== | ||
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[http://www.cybertesis.cl/ Cybertesis] is a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors. | [http://www.cybertesis.cl/ Cybertesis] is a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors. | ||
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==Colombia== | ==Colombia== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/Eduteka|Eduteka]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Eduteka|Eduteka]]=== | ||
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[http://www.eduteka.org/ Eduteka] is a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.es_CO CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. It is supported and run by the Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe Foundation in Colombia and has been awarded the National Prize for Technology in Education twice by the Iberoamerican Network for Technology in Education. Eduteka has also run pilot programs, incorporating OER into schools in order to "[increase] the competency of students and teachers in ICTs" and "[improve] the integration of these technologies into the regular curriculum." | [http://www.eduteka.org/ Eduteka] is a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.es_CO CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. It is supported and run by the Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe Foundation in Colombia and has been awarded the National Prize for Technology in Education twice by the Iberoamerican Network for Technology in Education. Eduteka has also run pilot programs, incorporating OER into schools in order to "[increase] the competency of students and teachers in ICTs" and "[improve] the integration of these technologies into the regular curriculum." | ||
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===[[Case_Studies/Escuela_Virtual_del_Deporte|Escuela Virtual del Deporte]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Escuela_Virtual_del_Deporte|Escuela Virtual del Deporte]]=== | ||
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The [http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes Escuela Virtual del Deporte], or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/co CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. | The [http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes Escuela Virtual del Deporte], or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/co CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. | ||
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===[[Case_Studies/Virtual_School_for_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean|Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Virtual_School_for_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean|Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean]]=== | ||
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The [http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean] is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. | The [http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean] is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. | ||
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==Czech Republic== | ==Czech Republic== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal|RVP Metodicky Portal]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal|RVP Metodicky Portal]]=== | ||
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The [http://dum.rvp.cz/index.html RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education. The project aims to provide "systematic support for teachers in teaching methodology and didactics, development of learning communities," and more "effective ways of learning." | The [http://dum.rvp.cz/index.html RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education. The project aims to provide "systematic support for teachers in teaching methodology and didactics, development of learning communities," and more "effective ways of learning." | ||
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==Finland== | ==Finland== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/Le_Mill|Le Mill]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Le_Mill|Le Mill]]=== | ||
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[http://lemill.net/ Le Mill] is an online community for "finding, authoring and sharing" open educational resources (OER). Le Mill was developed by the LeMill team led by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As of November 2010, Le Mill has nearly ~15,000 teachers contributing from 63 countries and almost 24,000 learning resources in 83 languages. Le Mill resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. | [http://lemill.net/ Le Mill] is an online community for "finding, authoring and sharing" open educational resources (OER). Le Mill was developed by the LeMill team led by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As of November 2010, Le Mill has nearly ~15,000 teachers contributing from 63 countries and almost 24,000 learning resources in 83 languages. Le Mill resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. | ||
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==India== | ==India== | ||
+ | ===[[Case_Studies/Open Education Project|Open Education Project]]=== | ||
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+ | [http://in.okfn.org/open-education/ Open Education Project] is a crowd sourced platform of free books and education tools that are made available online. It is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), India [http://in.okfn.org]. All content are free to be downloaded and printed by educators in the country. The Project uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution 3.0 Unported | ||
+ | ] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. It especially aims to reach out to economically challenged children with education. There is already quite a large collection of books and educational materials in the project's database. | ||
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===[[Case_Studies/Pratham_Books|Pratham Books]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Pratham_Books|Pratham Books]]=== | ||
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[http://www.prathambooks.org/ Pratham Books] is a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at their [http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks Scribd channel]. Pratham Books also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/ Flickr] account where they publish pictures of their community under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. | [http://www.prathambooks.org/ Pratham Books] is a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at their [http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks Scribd channel]. Pratham Books also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/ Flickr] account where they publish pictures of their community under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. | ||
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===[[Case_Studies/Computer_Masti|Computer Masti]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Computer_Masti|Computer Masti]]=== | ||
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+ | [http://www.computermasti.com/ Computer Masti (CM)] is a series of books, activities, and interactive content for [http://combinest.blogspot.com/2013/07/problems-in-computer-and-solution.html computer] [http://tsani-oke.blogspot.com/ education] in primary schools in India. It is a research-based product created at the IIT Bombay in collaboration with InOPEN, a tech start-up that works with Free and Open Source (FOSS) technologies. The books are available online under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/in/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] with additional permissions for commercial use via [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus CC plus] (more info to come in their [http://www.computermasti.com/legal legal] section). Site content is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/ CC Attribution]. | ||
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+ | ===National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)=== | ||
+ | [http://nptel.ac.in/ NPTEL] is a large OER publishing project of India. It is operated by a network of federal academic and research institutions in India and is funded by the Ministry of HRD. [http://nptel.ac.in/faq.php NPTEL has published 770 full courses in English] as of this year (each course contains lecture material equal to about 30 hours). They cover mainly STEM topics and are popular (about 117 million views on YouTube, for example, for some of the published courses). | ||
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+ | Back in July 2012, NPTEL adopted CC BY SA NC licenses. As of Sep 2014, NPTEL has removed the NC restriction and all materials now are CC BY SA. [http://nptel.ac.in/pdf/CC%20LIcenseNotes.pdf Here is an official note of NPTEL] that explains the rationale for adoption of CC licenses. | ||
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+ | ===National Repository of Open Educational Resources === | ||
+ | The [http://nroer.in/home/ NROER] is licensed under CC BY-SA. | ||
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+ | ==Internet== | ||
+ | ===[[Case_Studies/OpenSecurityTraining|OpenSecurityTraining.info]]=== | ||
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+ | In the spirit of OpenCourseWare and the Khan Academy, OpenSecurityTraining.info is dedicated to sharing training material for computer security classes, on any topic, that are at least one day long. This site is always seeking new collaborators to broaden the available training, but already has training on assembly languages, reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploits, vulnerability assessment, trusted computing, android forensics, and other topics. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (unported)]. | ||
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+ | ===[https://oer.gitlab.io/ oer.gitlab.io]=== | ||
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+ | The group [https://oer.gitlab.io/index.html oer at GitLab] collects OER under free and open licenses in a Git infrastructure. Most OER are [https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal reveal.js] HTML presentations generated from source documents in the lightweight markup language [https://orgmode.org Org mode] with the free/libre open source software [https://gitlab.com/oer/emacs-reveal emacs-reveal]. The use of a lightweight markup language enables (a) collaborative maintenance of OER with Git mechanisms and (b) the separation of contents from layout (possibly according to different organizational conventions). In addition, emacs-reveal embeds license information for figures in machine-readable RDFa format (based on [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC_REL CC REL]). | ||
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− | [http://www. | + | ==Italy== |
+ | ===[[Case_Studies/I-CLEEN project|I-CLEEN project]]=== | ||
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+ | [http://www.icleen.museum/ I-CLEEN] I-CLEEN is a collaborative project among teachers, willing to create a free database of resources (an information gateway) already tested in the classrooms, aiming to an interactive education of Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a web project by the [http://www.mtsn.tn.it/ Science Museum of Trento](former Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences). The project won the [http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards/homepage.htm eLearning award 2010]. All the parts that make up the project and all their respective activities are fully dealt with using an open source web platform called [http://www.liferay.com/ LifeRay] specifically implemented for this project. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC Attribution 3.0 (Italy)] | ||
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==Netherlands== | ==Netherlands== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/Wikiwijs|Wikiwijs]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Wikiwijs|Wikiwijs]]=== | ||
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[http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english/ Wikiwijs] is an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform, [http://cnx.org/ Connexions], to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/ CC BY]. | [http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english/ Wikiwijs] is an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform, [http://cnx.org/ Connexions], to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/ CC BY]. | ||
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==New Zealand== | ==New Zealand== | ||
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[http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ OER NZ] is a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with the [http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework], which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] or otherwise meet the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition free cultural works definition]. | [http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ OER NZ] is a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with the [http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework], which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] or otherwise meet the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition free cultural works definition]. | ||
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===[[Case_Studies/Otago_Polytechnic|Otago Polytechnic]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Otago_Polytechnic|Otago Polytechnic]]=== | ||
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[http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic] is a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt a [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235 default CC Attribution policy] and the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign the [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration]. | [http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic] is a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt a [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235 default CC Attribution policy] and the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign the [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration]. | ||
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==Norway== | ==Norway== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/Norwegian_National_Digital_Learning_Arena|Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Norwegian_National_Digital_Learning_Arena|Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)]]=== | ||
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The [http://ndla.no/en/ Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)] is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. In just a few years, the project has produced a large amount of OER. | The [http://ndla.no/en/ Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)] is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. In just a few years, the project has produced a large amount of OER. | ||
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==Poland== | ==Poland== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/Akademia_Orange|Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Akademia_Orange|Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)]]=== | ||
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[http://akademiaorange.pl/ Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)] is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution]. The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools. | [http://akademiaorange.pl/ Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)] is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution]. The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools. | ||
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===[[Case_Studies/We_Read_While_We're_Listening|We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/We_Read_While_We're_Listening|We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)]]=== | ||
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[http://czytamysluchajac.pl/ We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)] is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. | [http://czytamysluchajac.pl/ We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)] is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. | ||
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+ | ==South Africa== | ||
+ | ===[[Case_Studies/Siyavula|Siyavula]]=== | ||
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+ | Siyavula is working with local communities of teachers to incorporate and create educational materials under CC BY-SA. | ||
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+ | |||
+ | ===[[Case_Studies/OER Africa|OER Africa]]=== | ||
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+ | OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY. | ||
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==South Korea== | ==South Korea== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/SNOW|SNOW]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/SNOW|SNOW]]=== | ||
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[http://www.snow.or.kr/ SNOW] is an open knowledge platform for sharing higher education content. From lectures in the humanities, sciences, design to great addresses given by global leaders, SNOW offers Korean scripts and introductions on these academic subjects, encouraging its users to participate as volunteers who can participate in the OER movement through translations, distribution and creation of their own resources. As of February 2010, SNOW contained 260 Korean script-supported lectures including 145 lectures from TED, 95 voluntarily translated by users. All SNOW content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. | [http://www.snow.or.kr/ SNOW] is an open knowledge platform for sharing higher education content. From lectures in the humanities, sciences, design to great addresses given by global leaders, SNOW offers Korean scripts and introductions on these academic subjects, encouraging its users to participate as volunteers who can participate in the OER movement through translations, distribution and creation of their own resources. As of February 2010, SNOW contained 260 Korean script-supported lectures including 145 lectures from TED, 95 voluntarily translated by users. All SNOW content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. | ||
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===[[Case_Studies/Korea_University_Open_Course_Ware|Korea University OpenCourseWare]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/Korea_University_Open_Course_Ware|Korea University OpenCourseWare]]=== | ||
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Korea University firstly launched its open courseware program in 2009, after joining the OCW consortium in 2007. Korea University OpenCourseWare provides lecture materials for ten departments, including the departments of Technology, Law, and Education. Korea University is also organizing open courseware (Korea Open Courseware) among domestic universities. Including Korea University, nine universities have implemented open courseware policies: Kyunghee University, Kyunghee Cyber University, Pukyung University, Pusan University, Sangmyung University, Seoul National University of Technology, Inha University, and Dongguck University. Korea University OCW is under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives] while other universities, such as [http://ocw.khu.ac.kr Kyunghee University OCW], have implemented [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. | Korea University firstly launched its open courseware program in 2009, after joining the OCW consortium in 2007. Korea University OpenCourseWare provides lecture materials for ten departments, including the departments of Technology, Law, and Education. Korea University is also organizing open courseware (Korea Open Courseware) among domestic universities. Including Korea University, nine universities have implemented open courseware policies: Kyunghee University, Kyunghee Cyber University, Pukyung University, Pusan University, Sangmyung University, Seoul National University of Technology, Inha University, and Dongguck University. Korea University OCW is under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives] while other universities, such as [http://ocw.khu.ac.kr Kyunghee University OCW], have implemented [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. | ||
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+ | === [http://opentutorials.org/course/1 Coding Everybody] === | ||
+ | <div class="smimg">[[File:Coding_everybody.png]] | ||
+ | [http://opentutorials.org/course/1 Coding Everybody] is non-profit project for programming education; open tutorials for novice, common people and even child and elders, developer and founder of this project, Egoing is now covering web-service making, various programming languages, client server development, development toolkit, and other programming knowledge. | ||
+ | On this blog and repository, users can access dictionary and repository on programming knowledge with Going Lee’s own voice guideline with screenshots and other multimedia resource, with very easy and considerable teaching for first learner on programming. | ||
+ | All course is free and open for everyone; tutorials cover many programming parts and constantly updated by Going Lee with vigorous open conversation with his users. Courses and video clips of Coding Everybody are under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] | ||
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+ | === [http://cafe.naver.com/welearning2011/ Learning Playground] === | ||
+ | <div class="smimg">[[File:Learning playground.PNG]] | ||
+ | [http://cafe.naver.com/welearning2011/ Learning Playground] is non-progit, learning innovation project founded by Sung-Keun Lee, elementary school teacher, project lead. Learning Playground is the outbreak learning and study habit innovation project by in-office elementary school teachers, providing students to grow one’s own learning habit without private academy. Teachers make video clips on current elementary school’s curriculum with their own effort as volunteerism. Now 2,500 more video clips and DIY OER contents created by not only teachers but also students are uploaded on this repository for everyone who want to learn without high price private academy. On March 2015, now Learning Playground has 2 million users and 10 million hits so far. | ||
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+ | ==Sub-Saharan Africa== | ||
+ | ===[[Case_Studies/TESSA|TESSA]]=== | ||
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+ | TESSA is a research and development project that works to create open educational resources (OER) and course design guidance for educators across Sub-Saharan Africa under CC BY-SA. | ||
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==United Kingdom== | ==United Kingdom== | ||
===[[Case_Studies/OpenLearn|OpenLearn]]=== | ===[[Case_Studies/OpenLearn|OpenLearn]]=== | ||
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[http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ OpenLearn] is an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. | [http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ OpenLearn] is an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. | ||
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+ | ===Citizen Maths=== | ||
+ | [https://citizenmaths.com/ Citizen Maths] is "a mix of short online videos and hands-on activities" designed for the self-paced learner of math online. All materials are [https://citizenmaths.com/attribution-statement/ licensed CC BY] for anyone to use and remix. | ||
==United States== | ==United States== | ||
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+ | Washington State’s [http://opencourselibrary.org Open Course Library] is a large scale effort to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Faculty from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges are working together to design 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery. The goal of the Open Course Library is to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for the SBCTC system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle of our college system's [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx Strategic Technology Plan] to “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.” | ||
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+ | ===Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program=== | ||
+ | The [http://creativecommons.org/taa-grant-program TAACCCT] is a grant fund cooperatively administered through the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education. The program makes available US $2 billion over the next four years for grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” The solicitation for grant applications (PDF) requires that all resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY) license. | ||
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Contents
Featured OER Case Studies
The following is a list of the some of the most compelling OER projects and implementations of CC in educational policies around the world. For a more comprehensive listing, see the Case Studies project.
Argentina
Gleducar
Started in 2002, Gleducar is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status. [1] Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Encipel
Started in 2012, Encipel is an educational community in which users of any gender and age, create documents to share their knowledge. These documents are then reviewed and improved by the community, offering a better quality of content. We use the license CC BY-NC 3.0.[2]. So all the information is open to everyone. We have decided to use this license because we want people to enhance knowledge an it´s distribution Since the start we have improved the information, quality of the site an tools available for users. It´s still a very unknown project, but we expect it can grow more.
Australia
University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare
The University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW) provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from its Tertiary Preparation Program. USQ is the only Australian member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, an wallputih international collaboration of more than 230 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ All USQ OCW is available under CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike.
Brazil
OER-Brazil Project
The OER-Brazil Project, or Recursos Educacionais Abertos 4shared, is a website aimed at providing information on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Portuguese language speakers. The site features an extensive FAQ pointing to reference documents, media, and more. The site lists OER projects from Brazil and the rest of the world highlighting their CC license implementations. The OER-Brazil Project also provides information on current bills that aim to promote OER in Brazil if approved, and hopes to engage Brazilian society in the discussions and improvement of such policies. English language navigation of the site is in progress.
Canada
Athabasca University
Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds first University Press dedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license. Athabasca University is also the base for the UNESCO OER Community that was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
BCcampus
The BCcampus initiative is a collaboration of 25 post-secondary institutions contributing and sharing open educational resources under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license or a BCcampus license for use within the system. It is an "online learning and educational technology service agency established and funded entirely by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development." BCcampus also manages an Open Textbook Project and recently gathered a group of librarians interested in furthering OER called BCOER.
Ontario Online Learning Portal
In addition to hosting OER, the Ontario Online Learning Portal has developed this OER video primer featuring UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources Dr. Rory McGreal: http://contactnorth.ca/tips-tools/open-educational-resources/videos.
Chile
Cybertesis at the Universidad de Chile
Cybertesis is a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors.
Colombia
Eduteka
Eduteka is a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike. It is supported and run by the Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe Foundation in Colombia and has been awarded the National Prize for Technology in Education twice by the Iberoamerican Network for Technology in Education. Eduteka has also run pilot programs, incorporating OER into schools in order to "[increase] the competency of students and teachers in ICTs" and "[improve] the integration of these technologies into the regular curriculum."
Escuela Virtual del Deporte
The Escuela Virtual del Deporte, or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean
The Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed under CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike or CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives.
Czech Republic
RVP Metodicky Portal
The RVP Metodicky Portal is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike and CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education. The project aims to provide "systematic support for teachers in teaching methodology and didactics, development of learning communities," and more "effective ways of learning."
Finland
Le Mill
Le Mill is an online community for "finding, authoring and sharing" open educational resources (OER). Le Mill was developed by the LeMill team led by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As of November 2010, Le Mill has nearly ~15,000 teachers contributing from 63 countries and almost 24,000 learning resources in 83 languages. Le Mill resources are licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
India
Open Education Project
Open Education Project is a crowd sourced platform of free books and education tools that are made available online. It is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), India [3]. All content are free to be downloaded and printed by educators in the country. The Project uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution 3.0 Unported ] and CC Attribution-ShareAlike, to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. It especially aims to reach out to economically challenged children with education. There is already quite a large collection of books and educational materials in the project's database.
Pratham Books
Pratham Books is a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specifically CC Attribution and CC Attribution-ShareAlike, to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at their Scribd channel. Pratham Books also has a Flickr account where they publish pictures of their community under CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike.
Computer Masti
Computer Masti (CM) is a series of books, activities, and interactive content for computer education in primary schools in India. It is a research-based product created at the IIT Bombay in collaboration with InOPEN, a tech start-up that works with Free and Open Source (FOSS) technologies. The books are available online under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike with additional permissions for commercial use via CC plus (more info to come in their legal section). Site content is licensed under CC Attribution.
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
NPTEL is a large OER publishing project of India. It is operated by a network of federal academic and research institutions in India and is funded by the Ministry of HRD. NPTEL has published 770 full courses in English as of this year (each course contains lecture material equal to about 30 hours). They cover mainly STEM topics and are popular (about 117 million views on YouTube, for example, for some of the published courses).
Back in July 2012, NPTEL adopted CC BY SA NC licenses. As of Sep 2014, NPTEL has removed the NC restriction and all materials now are CC BY SA. Here is an official note of NPTEL that explains the rationale for adoption of CC licenses.
National Repository of Open Educational Resources
The NROER is licensed under CC BY-SA.
Internet
OpenSecurityTraining.info
In the spirit of OpenCourseWare and the Khan Academy, OpenSecurityTraining.info is dedicated to sharing training material for computer security classes, on any topic, that are at least one day long. This site is always seeking new collaborators to broaden the available training, but already has training on assembly languages, reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploits, vulnerability assessment, trusted computing, android forensics, and other topics. Resources are licensed under CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (unported).
oer.gitlab.io
The group oer at GitLab collects OER under free and open licenses in a Git infrastructure. Most OER are reveal.js HTML presentations generated from source documents in the lightweight markup language Org mode with the free/libre open source software emacs-reveal. The use of a lightweight markup language enables (a) collaborative maintenance of OER with Git mechanisms and (b) the separation of contents from layout (possibly according to different organizational conventions). In addition, emacs-reveal embeds license information for figures in machine-readable RDFa format (based on CC REL).
Italy
I-CLEEN project
I-CLEEN I-CLEEN is a collaborative project among teachers, willing to create a free database of resources (an information gateway) already tested in the classrooms, aiming to an interactive education of Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a web project by the Science Museum of Trento(former Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences). The project won the eLearning award 2010. All the parts that make up the project and all their respective activities are fully dealt with using an open source web platform called LifeRay specifically implemented for this project. Resources are licensed under CC Attribution 3.0 (Italy)
Netherlands
Wikiwijs
Wikiwijs is an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform, Connexions, to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available under CC BY.
New Zealand
OERNZ
OER NZ is a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework, which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be under CC Attribution or otherwise meet the free cultural works definition.
Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic is a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt a default CC Attribution policy and the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign the Cape Town Open Education Declaration.
Norway
Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)
The Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA) is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. In just a few years, the project has produced a large amount of OER.
Poland
Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)
Orange Academy (Akademia Orange) is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy is CC Attribution. The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools.
We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)
We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając) is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
South Africa
Siyavula
Siyavula is working with local communities of teachers to incorporate and create educational materials under CC BY-SA.
OER Africa
OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY.
South Korea
SNOW
SNOW is an open knowledge platform for sharing higher education content. From lectures in the humanities, sciences, design to great addresses given by global leaders, SNOW offers Korean scripts and introductions on these academic subjects, encouraging its users to participate as volunteers who can participate in the OER movement through translations, distribution and creation of their own resources. As of February 2010, SNOW contained 260 Korean script-supported lectures including 145 lectures from TED, 95 voluntarily translated by users. All SNOW content is available under CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives.
Korea University OpenCourseWare
Korea University firstly launched its open courseware program in 2009, after joining the OCW consortium in 2007. Korea University OpenCourseWare provides lecture materials for ten departments, including the departments of Technology, Law, and Education. Korea University is also organizing open courseware (Korea Open Courseware) among domestic universities. Including Korea University, nine universities have implemented open courseware policies: Kyunghee University, Kyunghee Cyber University, Pukyung University, Pusan University, Sangmyung University, Seoul National University of Technology, Inha University, and Dongguck University. Korea University OCW is under CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives while other universities, such as Kyunghee University OCW, have implemented CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike.
Coding Everybody
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Coding Everybody is non-profit project for programming education; open tutorials for novice, common people and even child and elders, developer and founder of this project, Egoing is now covering web-service making, various programming languages, client server development, development toolkit, and other programming knowledge. On this blog and repository, users can access dictionary and repository on programming knowledge with Going Lee’s own voice guideline with screenshots and other multimedia resource, with very easy and considerable teaching for first learner on programming. All course is free and open for everyone; tutorials cover many programming parts and constantly updated by Going Lee with vigorous open conversation with his users. Courses and video clips of Coding Everybody are under CC Attribution
Learning Playground
Learning Playground is non-progit, learning innovation project founded by Sung-Keun Lee, elementary school teacher, project lead. Learning Playground is the outbreak learning and study habit innovation project by in-office elementary school teachers, providing students to grow one’s own learning habit without private academy. Teachers make video clips on current elementary school’s curriculum with their own effort as volunteerism. Now 2,500 more video clips and DIY OER contents created by not only teachers but also students are uploaded on this repository for everyone who want to learn without high price private academy. On March 2015, now Learning Playground has 2 million users and 10 million hits so far.
Sub-Saharan Africa
TESSA
TESSA is a research and development project that works to create open educational resources (OER) and course design guidance for educators across Sub-Saharan Africa under CC BY-SA.
United Kingdom
OpenLearn
OpenLearn is an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials under CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike.
Citizen Maths
Citizen Maths is "a mix of short online videos and hands-on activities" designed for the self-paced learner of math online. All materials are licensed CC BY for anyone to use and remix.
United States
Open Course Library
Washington State’s Open Course Library is a large scale effort to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Faculty from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges are working together to design 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery. The goal of the Open Course Library is to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for the SBCTC system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle of our college system's Strategic Technology Plan to “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”
Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program
The TAACCCT is a grant fund cooperatively administered through the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education. The program makes available US $2 billion over the next four years for grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” The solicitation for grant applications (PDF) requires that all resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY) license.