Countries with OER initiatives
This is an early list of countries where OER initiatives are known - and links to the main initiatives. It was originally prepared by Nick Jeans in mid March 2011.
For a more up to date list see the Deliverable 2.3 - Report on Comparative Analysis of Transversal OER Initiatives
Contents
Australia
- Education Network Australia (EDNA), part funded by the Australian Department of Education, resources for pre-School, School, Vocational and Technical, Adult and Community and Teacher Training.
- Scootle: interactive learning and assessment objects, contemporary and historical videos, documents, photographs, artworks, speeches and interviews, and other teacher support materials. Search results can be filtered by year level, learning area and resource type. Only available to licensed educators and students in Australia and New Zealand.
- University of Southern Queensland Australia Opencourseware
Brazil
- The Educational Repository - an online service for collecting, preserving and providing access to research publications and digital content
- Public Domain Portal
- FGV Online (Fundação Getulio Vargas) first Brazilian institution to be a member of OCWC (Open Course Ware Consortium)
- Rived (Interactive Virtual Education Network) - a programme of the Department of Distance Education (SEED) creating digital educational content.
- Ripe - funded by the Foundation for Research of the State of Bahia. Collaborative and decentralized resources for basic education
- [ttp://portaldoprofessor.mec.gov.br/index.html Teacher Portal] - hosted by Ministry of Education
- The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) - electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals.
Bulgaria
Canada
- Free Learning - hosted by BC campus, a publicly-funded organization that uses information technology to connect the expertise, programmes, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework; gateway to Open Educational Resources (OERs) from around the world.
China
- China Open Resources for Education (CORE)
- Netease Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd
Finland
- LeMill: developed by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland (now part of Aalto University), LeMill was started in 2005-2008 by the CALIBRATE project. There are contributions from 15477 teachers in 62 countries in 27 languages.
France
- Universites Numeriques
- ParisTech Open Course Ware: Science and Maths resources
Greece
- Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force
- Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET)
- Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
India
- National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning - a joint venture by seven Indian institutes of technology and Indian institutes of science; funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development, to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum-based video and web courses. Courses in core sciences, computer science, civil engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and material engineering.
- Ekalavya - by Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Content developed in various Indian languages is distributed over the Internet. Includes Open Source Educational Resources Animation Repository (OSCAR) for web-based interactive animations for teaching. OSCAR provides a platform for student developers to create animations based on ideas and guidance from instructors.
- eGyanKosh - </span> National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country. Run by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Also hosts Pan African e-Network.
Japan
- Japan Opencourseware Consortium(JOCW) - a consortium of Japanese Universities
Korea
Lithuania
- "Open Educational Resources in Lithuania: State-of–the-Art, Challenges and Prospects for Development", http://iite.unesco.org/news/639052/
Netherlands
New Zealand
- OERNZ is a national OER initiative for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum.
South Africa
- The Shuttleworth Foundation
- UNISA Institute for Open and Distance Learning (IODL)
- FHSST (Free High School Science Texts): grade 10-12 science and maths textbooks written by volunteers
- OER Africa - an initiative of the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide): http://www.oerafrica.org/healthoer, http://www.oerafrica.org/foundation, http://www.oerafrica.org/agricultureoer, http://www.oerafrica.org/teachered
- University of Western Cape Free Courseware
United Kingdom
- Open University OpenLearn: free access to over 600 online courses from the Open University
- OpenLearn’s LabSpace: access to many different open educational resources (OER) from a wider OER community
- HEA/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme (2009-2012): The UK Open Educational Resources initiative, led jointly by JISC and the Higher Education Academy on behalf of HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England)
- UKOER1 (2009-2010): Releasing existing teaching materials as OERs
- UKOER2 (2010-2011): Releasing, using and discovery of OERs
- UKOER3 (2011-2012): Embedding benefits, strategy and policy
- SCORE (Support Centre for Open Resources in Education): based at the Open University in the UK and funded by HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) as a three year programme (2009-2012). SCORE has funded about 30 fellowship projects focused on informing and influencing policy and practice around OER creation, sharing and use in UK higher education
- JISC infoNet OER infoKit: Key outputs from HEA/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme
- JORUM: The national repository for Open Educational Resources, providing access to learning and teaching resources created by staff in UK Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) institutions
- The JISC Design Studio:access to project outcomes and outputs from the JISC Curriculum Design and Delivery programmes, focusing on the role technology plays in supporting curriculum development process and practice
- Xpert: An OER aggregator developed by the University of Nottingham
- OLnet (Open Learning Network): OLnet is an international research hub for aggregating, sharing, debating and improving Open Educational Resources (OERs). OLnet is a collaborative project between the Open University in the UK and Carnegie Mellon University in the US, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from March 2009 to April 2012.
- The Open Education Evidence Hub: is developed within the context of the OLnet project, aimed to develop an evidence-base and identify the gaps in research and practice in Open Educational Resources.
United States
- Alexandria Archive Institute Open Context - a California-based non-profit organization
- Archive.org (non-profit organization) - an Internet library offering free access to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
- Connexions (provided by Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States) - one of the largest repositories of open educational resources in the world
- The Digital Library Federation (DLF) - a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services.
- Encyclopedia of Earth - Boston University’s electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society; a free, expert-reviewed collection of articles
- Flat World Knowledge (based in Irvington, NY) - commercial operator within the open content movement. Students can read peer-reviewed textbooks in their entirety online for free or purchase print and digital versions. The company generates revenue through the sale of print books, e-books for devices like the iPad and Kindle, audio books, PDF downloads and interactive study aids.
- FreeReading.net - New York-based education technology company Wireless Generation, reading intervention program addressing literacy development for primary education
- George Lucas Education Foundation, Edutopia - resources for grades 2-12
- Harvard University Library Open Collection Program
- Itrainonline - resources in English, Spanish, French and other languages, on topics ranging from computer and Internet basics to highly technical areas.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare
- MERLOT - California State University site with over 27,000 materials
- NASA
- National Science Development Library (NSDL) - online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
- NYC Department of Education
- Open Michigan Initiative
- Peer 2 Peer University - hosted by University of California at Irvine
- Public Library of Science (PLoS) - a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.
- Tufts University OpenCourseWare - resources for Health Sciences
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
US Media sites
- WGBH Open Vault - the home of WGBH Media Library and Archives; provides online access to content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. The site contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning.
- WGBH Teachers’ Domain - free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. Thousands of media resources, support materials and teacher networks.
- KQED Education Network - another US media network making resources freely available
- Public Broadcasting Service, Thirteen/WNET New York - standards-based lesson plans and classroom activities, multimedia primer, online mentors, and reviews of curriculum-based Web sites.
- PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) Teachers - classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels.
- New York Times Learning Network
Vietnam
- FETP OpenCourseWare Vietnam will include all Fulbright School materials (subject to copyright law). The Fulbright School participates with other academic institutions in Vietnam to promote the use of innovative long-distance learning activities.
Wider regions
Africa
Commonwealth
- Commonwealth of Learning (COL) - COL is co-ordinating the development of a Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC). Thirty countries are now actively engaged.
Europe
- European SchoolNet (EUN)
- Ariadne - a long-standing European foundation to foster share and reuse of learning resources.
- OERtest: A two year (Oct. 2010 - Sep. 2012) project funded by the Lifelong Learning Programme of European Commission. Its aim is to support the mainstreaming of OERs within Higher Education and to test the feasibility of assessing learning exclusively achieved through the use of Open Educational Resources.
- OER HE: Innovative OER in European Higher Education, including a consortium of eleven European partners
- MORIL (Multilingual Open Resources for Independent Learning): an initiative by the Open and Distance Teaching Universities within the EADTU
- OpenED: a FREE and OPEN online course for business students and practitioners
- OPAL (Open Educational Quality Initiative): to support open educational practice by enhancing the quantity and quality of open educational resources that can be incorporated into higher education and further education provision.
South America
- Universia is a Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese network including 1,056 universities and institutions of higher learning, which represents approximately 10 million students.
International
Edited collection on OERs by Rory McGreal (link?)
Klas Cement - Bologna OER portal for Schools (link?)
EU "Opening Up Education" initiative (forthcoming) (link?)
OER Conferences - OER10, OER11, OER12
Opening up Education Through Technology - Conference of European Ministers of Education (Oslo, Dec 9-11, 2012): [1]
OER mapping exercise - Susan D'Antoni (link?)
Unesco Chairs - Rory McGreal,Fred Mulder
UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning - Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice
- Creative Commons
- Curriki - an open infrastructure for developing and distributing curricula based on a common set of open standards.
- [ttp://www.teacherswithoutborders.org Teachers Without Borders]
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- Google Grants
- Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE)
- WikiEducator - 17000 registered users; a global project dedicated to developing open content resources in support of all national curricula by 2015, in line with the UN's Millennium Development Goals. WikiEducator is a top 100K website with 10.5 million hits per month (October, 2009). It has over 18,000 members in more than 110 countries. 72% of its users are teachers, lecturers or trainers working in the education sector.
- OER Commons - Primary, Secondary and post-secondary (mostly Science and Technology); Subject areas: Arts (1818), Business (833), Humanities (6898), Mathematics & Statistics (3144), Science & Technology (17934), and Social Sciences (5520)
- Wikiversity with Wikiversity Sister projects - a Wikimedia Foundation project providing over 14000 learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
- The OpenCourseWare Consortium - a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating open educational content using a shared model.
- Teachers Without Borders - free, open-source platform where teachers can access resources, collaborate with other teachers worldwide and interact in smaller communities specified by topic or subject
- United Nations University OpenCourseWare - a portal for Open Courseware Consortium
- Qedoc - interactive Open educational resources which centre on quiz-making and quiz-taking.
- OER Knowledge Cloud: The UNESCO/COL OER Knowledge Cloud provides access to knowledge and research on Open Educational Resources
- Global OER Graduate School
- Umbrella for PhD (& Master) research on OER linked to different disciplinesIndented line
- Addressing fundaments, design, applications, practice, context, evaluation and monitoring
- Projects being run at the network partner universities around the world
Specialist
Health OERs
- Peoples UNI (Peoples Open Access Education Initiative): UK-based charity, Building Public Health capacity using Internet-based e-learning
- MedEdPORTAL - a free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources.
- John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- National Digital Collection: The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) - a digital library of multimedia teaching resources for the health sciences
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
- BioMed Central - Publisher of 212 peer-reviewed open access journals
- UCT OpenContent
- Global Health e-Learning Centre: (US Aid)
- KNUST OER site (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University of Ghana): The African Health OER Network provides a platform for African health academics to freely access and share educational materials as well as to debate key issues around the future of health education for healthcare workers in Africa
- Journal of Public Health in Africa (an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal published by PAGEPress, Pavia, Italy):
- The African Journal of Health Professions Education - an online, bi-annual, peer reviewed, journal that covers matters related to education for health professionals
- The Sub-Saharan African Medical Schools Study (SAMSS)
- iSA Clinical Platform International Support Action for Support in Infectious Diseases & Oncology
- TIGER(Transforming Interprofessional Groups through Educational Resources): a set of OERs for Interprofessional Education (IPE) in Health and Social Care