OER projects
From OER Grapevine
OER Grapevine's mission is to promote discussion and cooperation among projects relating to open educational resources (OER).
The site was created on November 22, 2006 by Rob Lucas. OER Grapevine is intended to be neutral ground, and Rob is happy to bring on other administrators.
The site includes an email list and this wiki. This wiki will be used to keep a list and short descriptions of OER projects.
[edit] Email list
Talk@OERGrapevine.org discusses, among other things:
- announce new projects
- coordinate efforts among projects
- identify unfilled niches and help existing projects differentiate (when possible) to bring many different types of educators into the fold
- discuss common challenges
[edit] OER projects
Click edit at right to add a project. Welcome!
Click more... to write more about a project -- maybe it's Web strategy, technology development, lessons learned, OER Grapevine members involved, links to relevant blogs, etc.
[edit] BSSD OpenContent Project
- License: cc by-nc-sa
- Founded: October, 2005
- Location: Unalakleet, Alaska
- Content Type(s): Standards-based curriculum K-12, resources, texts, multimedia
- Subjects: All
- Activity: 1,350 pages and growing
[edit] California Open Source Textbook Project
- License: per item, encourages Creative Commons
- Founded 2001
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
[edit] Capital Market Wiki
http://www.capital-market-wiki.org/wiki/
- Goal: To create a free encyclopedia of world capital markets, based on open source financial research. Has templates for university level classroom projects, with formats based on Capital Market Taxonomy. Includes a job opportunity network for students on graduation.
- License: GNU Free Documentation License (mostly); but supports a copyrighted research namespace.
- Founded: 2006 (open to public, March 2009)
- Location: Naples, FL
[edit] Cardionetworks
- License: cc by-nc-sa
- Founded: 2007
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- First project: http://www.ecgpedia.org, an online electrocardiography (ECG) course
[edit] ccLearn
http://learn.creativecommons.org
- License: cc by
- Founded: 2007
- Location: San Francisco, California (U.S.)
[edit] Community College Consortium for OER
- License: ?
- Founded: July 2007
- Location: USA
[edit] Community College Open Textbook Project
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org
- License: Creative Commons License by Attribution
- Founded: April 2008
- Location: USA
[edit] Connexions
- License: cc by
- Plone based
[edit] Curriki
- Launched: November 2006
- Founded: 2004
- License: Curriki supports all CC AT 3.0 licenses, pick from the least (AT) to most restrictive (AT ND NC).
[edit] Edplum
- Currently under development
- Goal: to let teachers share "plums" (a word we coined to refer to tips, tidbits or small resources) and build them up into larger teaching units as part of an interactive community
- License: cc by-sa or something very similar
- Subjects: All
[edit] Free High School Science Texts
- Location: South Africa to start, open to expansion if coordinators in other countries volunteer
- Goal: Write and print royalty free textbooks to reduce costs (more than factor 10 possible)
- License: GFDL
- Current Subjects: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
- Planned Subjects: Geography, Biology, Computer Literacy
[edit] Global Text Project
- Location: University of Georgia and University of Denver
- Goal: Publish electronic textbooks for university students in developing economies
- License: Creative Commons License by Attribution
[edit] Internet Archive: Education
http://www.archive.org/details/education
- License: per item
- Launched: November 2005? (beta)
[edit] K12 Open Ed Kids Open Dictionary
http://dictionary.k12opened.com
- Goal: To build a simple, open dictionary for kids and other learners. As words are completed, they will be reviewed for quality and appropriateness and ultimately "frozen" for export into a variety of formats, including text, PDF, ebooks, wikis, web, etc., for use on a variety of devices and platforms by anyone for any purpose.
- License: public domain
- Founded: June, 2008
- Location: California, US
- Content Type(s): Words and definitions, exportable to various formats
[edit] LearnScope
http://nswlearnscope.com/wiki/
- Launched 2007
- License: cc by-sa
- Subjects: Elearning, Web 2.0
[edit] LeMill
- Goal: to find, author and share open and free learning resources
- Content license: cc by-sa
- Plone based
[edit] Marco Polo
http://www.marcopolo-education.org
- ReadWriteThink http://www.readwritethink.org (non-commercial use only)
- Xpeditions http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions (non-commercial use only)
- ArtsEdge http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org (non-commercial use only)
- EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov (non-commercial use only)
- License: non-commercial use only
[edit] MIT Open Course Ware
- Launched 1999
- License: cc by-nc-sa
[edit] OpenCourse
- A free collaboration platform for creating and sharing open courseware. Aimed at faculty, students and other professionals, OpenCourse.org makes it easy (<15 min) to set up a discipline-specific "collaboratory" to build learning materials. It is like SourceForge (TM) for communities of open courseware developers.
- Plone site
- Founder: Robert Stephenson
[edit] OER Commons
- Location: Based in US, international use
- Goal: to provide a centralized framework for the use and reuse of OER, through the gathering of metadata and pointers to OER worldwide, and to build a knowledge base of use through tagging, rating, reviewing, recommending, and annotating OER.
- License: encourages Creative Commons use or alternative
- Subjects: All (includes K-12, higher ed, and training)
[edit] OpenLearn
http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn
- License: cc by-nc-sa
[edit] OER Repository New Zealand
- Location: Based in New Zealand
- Subjects:
- ICT 2
- NZIM Certificate in Management
- Building and construction
- License: cc by-sa (see)
[edit] Open-Of-Course
- Location: Netherlands
- Goal: to establish an international, self-supporting and multilingual community for open content educational material for adults. The focus is on practical information that people can benefit from in daily life.
- License: divers, but all open content
- Subjects: operating systems, computer applications, languages, webdesign, business
[edit] Open Planner
- Location: New York, NY
- Goal: To provide a space for teachers to join curriculum teams and collaboratively build cohesive original curriculum: lessons couched in units couched in year-long course plans, with a focus on discussing pedagogy. We also hope to partner with existing PD communities, giving teachers a place to continue their discussion/collaboration once the in-person PD is over.
- License: cc by-nc-sa
- Subjects: all
[edit] OWL Institute
- Launched: 2002
- Location: Based in Duluth, Minnesota with international membership
- Goal: Research, develop and distribute OER; collaborative course and curriculum development and distribution.
- License: cc
- OWL Portal (Moodle portal, in beta release) (non-commercial use only)
- OER Portal (Drupal portal) (non-commercial use only)
- Subjects: PreK to Post-secondary. For teachers, homeschoolers, and OER enthusiasts.
[edit] Qedoc
- Launched: March 2006; moved learning object repository to current site in February 2007.
- Description: caters for interactive learning objects ("quizzes") with pedagogical depth.
- Subjects: all.
- Educational levels: primary, secondary, post-secondary.
- Licences: educators can choose between CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-SA.
[edit] SOCKS
- Location: South Africa
- Goal: to share free content, teacher support materials and knowledge relating to the South African school curriculum.
- License: CC BY-SA
- Subjects: Natural sciences, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Mathematics.
[edit] Sofia
- Goal: to promotes faculty and institutional sharing of online content
- License: CC BY NC
- Subjects: various
[edit] Siyavula
- Goal: create collaboratively developed and maintained open educational resources that comprehensively cover the South African curriculum
- License: CC-BY
- Subjects: R-12 (K-12)
[edit] Tapped In
[edit] Teachers Without Borders
more... Teachers Without Borders
[edit] twidox
- Launched: November 2008
- Goal: To create a free, user generated online library of ‘quality’ documents that allows individuals and organisations to easily publish, share and search for them. Documents on twidox are accessible to everyone online and will allow people to share their knowledge and help others with their work, learning, teaching and research.
- License: Creative Commons
- Subjects: All
[edit] We The Teachers
- Launched: May 2006
- Goal: To create a social website that allows seamless interaction and resource sharing between teachers. Also, to provide tools that "corporate-minded" websites/teachers have been charging money for...but for free!
- License: none, controlled by submitting teachers
- Subjects: All (prek-12)
[edit] Wikibooks
- Launched July 10, 2003
- Goal: To create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit
- License: GNU Free Documentation License
- Subjects: All
[edit] WikiEducator
- Launched: Officially May 2006
- Goal: Turning the digital divide into digital dividends through free content and open networks.
- Strategic Vision: To contribute to the development of a free version of the entire education curriculum by 2015
- License: cc by-sa
- Subjects: All subjects
- Institution: Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver
- Brochure: For more information, download brochure_PrintCropped.pdf here
[edit] Wikigogy
- Launched: March 2006
- Goal: to help teachers of English as a second or foreign languages worldwide collaborate on lesson plans and best practice simply and effectively
- License: cc by-sa
- Subjects: English as a foreign or second language (EFL, ESL)
[edit] WikiJET
- Currently hosted at Wikia http://wiki.wikia.com
- Launched: November 2006
- Goal: to share English teaching materials between participants of the JET Programme
- License: GFDL
- Subjects: TEFL materials suited for use by JET Programme participants, local information on Japanese towns and cities, information on JET events and the JET Programme itself.
[edit] WikiTeach
- License: "share-alike full copyleft license"
[edit] Wikiversity
http://www.wikiversity.org (multilingual portal); http://en.wikiversity.org/ (English Wikiversity)
- Beta launched: August 15, 2006
- Goal: Developing educational resources for all learner levels, and to foster active learning communities. (See Wikiversity:Welcome)
- Subjects: All subjects (or, at least, not confined to a particular discipline or curriculum)
- License: GFDL
[edit] Wolne Podreczniki
http://www.wolnepodreczniki.pl
- Beta Launched: April 2007
- Goal: Create full set of textbooks for Polish primary and secondary schools
- License: GFDL
- Subjects: All subjects
[edit] All rights reserved projects
In contrast to above OER copyleft model, the following projects use the copyright all rights reserved commercial pay to use model. These are listed here because following their progress may be instructive. Some of the sites that give away lessons free but with all rights reserved have amassed lots of presumably volunteer written and submitted lessons.
- Teachers Pay Teachers http://teacherspayteachers.com (micro payment)
- Lesson Planet http://www.lessonplanet.com ($24.95/year, 7day money back guarantee "free trial")
- TEFL Magic http://tefl-magic.com (free)
- Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org (free)
- Dave's ESL Cafe Cookbook http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/index.html (free)
[edit] All rights reserved vs Copyleft
Unfortunately giving free lesson plans all rights reserved delivers a dead lesson instead of a living one. That is why copyleft is better; a copyleft lesson can be improved and republished freely, it's alive.
[edit] See also
- Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations -- a Creative Commons wiki thingy/database/OER project finder
- Commonwealth of Learning August, 2006 presentation, Exploring the role of ICTs in addressing educational needs: identifying the myths and the miracles. -- why Non-commercial licenses are stifling
- Wikipedia's Open educational resources article unless someone deletes it.
- Freedom Defined -- a wiki focused on defining the idea of free cultural works
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's OER study
- UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning's OER wiki about OER development
- Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
- Eben Moglen explains Open -- read the transcript -- or watch and hear him at YouTube or Archive.org
- The Current State of Open Educational Resources (February 2006)
- Open Courseware Consortium
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - OER
- 80 OER Tools some OER software tools and sites
- OERderves.org OER blog with the name to match OER Grapevine!
