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OER Commons, created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, was developed to serve curriculum experts and educators in discovering open educational resources (OER) and collaborating around the use, evaluation, and improvement of those materials. [1]
A large part of the early work on open educational resources was funded by universities and foundations such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, [51] which was the main financial supporter of open educational resources in the early years and has spent more than $110 million in the 2002 to 2010 period, of which more than $14 million ...
OpenStax, a library of free, peer-reviewed, and openly licensed college textbooks; Creative Commons, the organization that created the licenses used by OpenStax CNX; Open educational resources, the idea that educational resources can be shared in general through copyleft or other free culture movement licenses; OpenCourseWare; Open textbook ...
OpenStax textbooks follow a traditional peer review process aimed at ensuring they meet a high quality standard before publication. Textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators in an attempt to ensure they are readable and accurate, meet the scope and sequence requirements of each course, are supported by instructor ancillaries, and are available with the latest technology-based ...
Open Educational Resources is a digital collection at archive.org. This collection contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. The contributors of this collection are ArsDigita University, Hewlett Foundation, MIT, Monterey Institute, and Naropa University. [139]
The Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) at the Open University (UK) was the second major initiative to be funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce). (The first was the UKOER programme, jointly run by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA)). [44]
Open educational resources policy; Open-door academic policy; United Kingdom Accreditation Service; 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO Guidelines on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education; 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources
The Saylor Foundation is a non-profit organization that produces new open-source educational content and curates existing open resources to support college-level courses. Its course outlines are licensed under a CC-BY license, making those outlines open-source curricula. [6]