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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.

Argentina

Gleducar is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status that exists to "meet the interests and needs of the community." 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.

Australia

• Uiversity of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare

Canada

• BCcampus
• Athabasca University

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

• http://dum.rvp.cz/index.html

England

Finland

• [Le Mill]

India

• Pratham Books
• Computer Masti

Netherlands

• Dutch Ministry of Education, CC BY

New Zealand

• Ministry of Education and NZGOAL
• Otago Polytechnic

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)

http://akademiaorange.pl/

• We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)

South Korea

• SNOW
• Korea University OpenCourseWare

United Kingdom

• OpenLearn

United States

• California Free Digital Textbook Initiative

• http://www.smarthistory.org