Open-Educational-Resources

CC Learn: Promoting Interoperability Among Open Educational Resources Repositories

April 16, 2007

Wanted: Single standard for open-content licenses. ‘New effort aims to unite open educational resources (OERs) under a common framework for permissions. The movement toward open course materials for education has created something of a problem: Although a number of repositories have been set up to allow users to download sharable online content, many of these [...]

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UNESCO Open Training Platform

April 1, 2007

Open Training Platform. ‘UNESCO facilitates a collaborative access to existing free training courses and promotes open licensed resources to specialized groups and local communities for development. The objective behind this platform is to empower trainers or/and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and [...]

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Internet Archive: Open Educational Resources (Beta)

March 8, 2007

Internet Archive: Open Educational Resources (Beta). ‘The Open Educational Resources Archive is a collection of educational content including coursework, study guides, exercises, and recorded lectures. It is meant for students, teachers, and self-learners at all levels.’ About the Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, [...]

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OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

February 16, 2007

OER Commons: Open Educational Resources. ‘OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience [...]

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A Great Tool: OpenCourseWare Finder

November 28, 2006

OpenCourseWare Finder. Find open educational resources by typing in the search box or selecting tags. See also: OpenContent.Org Open Content Wiki. A place for collaborating on, scheming about, planning for, and developing open educational resources.

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JHSPH OpenCourseWare (OCW)

July 9, 2006

JHSPH OpenCourseWare. ‘The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses. As challenges to the world’s health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public’s health and [...]

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PANdora: Pan Asia Network Distance and Open Resource Access

June 25, 2006

Pandora’s Box: A New Model for Education in Asia. ‘Distance education. Just say the words and a stereotype comes to mind — a system of education that is “second best.” Many who have only experienced face-to-face education in an institutional setting believe that the quality of education provided through distance education is inferior. However, this [...]

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Education for All: UNESCO Program Using Open and Distance Learning (ODL)

June 24, 2006

Arriving at the Electronic Frontier. ‘Achieving universal primary education in countries jumpstarts secondary education. However, many regions find themselves without the resources needed to meet this demand. A UNESCO program using Open and Distance Learning (ODL) systems is giving secondary school students access to the world of learning. “This situation urgently calls for the development [...]

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