Open-Educational-Resources

Open Course Info

May 15, 2006

Open Course Info – Open Course Resources. ‘Open Course refers to the sharing of educational materials with minimal restrictions, usually in the context of new digital technologies available through the World-Wide Web. Its purpose is the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge, in keeping with academic tradition and counter to the current trend toward the commercialization [...]

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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

May 15, 2006

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW). ‘MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT’s values of excellence, innovation, and leadership. MIT OCW’s goals are to: provide free, [...]

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Connexions: Rice University’s Repository of Educational Materials

May 9, 2006

Connexions. ‘Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools to help authors publish and collaborate, instructors rapidly build and share custom courses, learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines. Our Content Commons contains small “knowledge chunks” we call modules that connect into courses. [...]

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

April 6, 2006

Open Educational Resources (OER): open content for higher education. ‘This site is a place where members of the IIEP Open Educational Resources Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. This list of links to OER initiatives, resources and tools was compiled following the first IIEP discussion forum on Open Educational Resources (24 October [...]

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