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Relay Graduate School of Education is a private graduate school for teachers in New York City [3] and other locations in the United States including Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Connecticut, Delaware, Denver, Houston, Indiana, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans, Newark, Philadelphia, Camden, and San Antonio.
The Open Educational Resources Programme (phases one [120] and two [121]) (United Kingdom) was funded by HEFCE, the UK Higher Education Academy and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which has supported pilot projects and activities around the open release of learning resources, for free use and repurposing worldwide.
An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration (with over 2,500 signatories) reads: "open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues.
A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries. [57] Working with government and research partners in India ( Digital Library of India ) and China , the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to ...
According to the website of the OCW Consortium, an OCW project: is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. is available for use and adaptation under an open license, such as certain Creative Commons licenses. does not typically provide certification or access to faculty. [4]
A key project, FLOE (Flexible Learning for Open Education), is currently one of the IDRC's biggest initiatives. It has received substantial funding from the Hewlett Foundation and the European Commission. FLOE takes advantage of the fact that the centre has a set of curricula that is openly licensed and can be repurposed and re-used to make ...
This outline of open educational resources provides a way of navigating concepts and topics in relation to the open educational resources (OER) movement. Definitions [ edit ]