OER Case Studies
This is a list of the most compelling OER projects and implementations of CC in educational policy. For a more comprehensive listing of all case studies about OER, see the Case Studies project.
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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 that exists to "meet the interests and needs of the community." [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.
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 international collaboration of in excess of 100 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’
Canada
Chile
Colombia
- Escuela Virtual del Deporte in Colombia is still my favorite
http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes/preguntas-frecuentes.html
- Latam and Caribean Victual School from UNDP
http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php
- Eduteka
http://www.eduteka.org/ http://www.eduteka.org/IndiceModulos.php
Czech Republic
England
Finland
- [Le Mill]
India
Netherlands
- Dutch Ministry of Education, CC BY
New Zealand
Norway
- Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)
"All the different provinces (except Oslo, the capital area) joined together to take some of the money the state transfers to them to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students, and uses it to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under CC BY SA. They have existed for a few years, and have produced a very large amount of materials."
Here's an example, this is their English materials (for high school students): http://ndla.no/en/node/42
Poland
- Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)
- We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)
