Open-source curriculum

An open-source curriculum (OSC) is an online instructional resource that can be freely used, distributed and modified. OSC is based on the open-source practice of creating products or software that opens up access to source materials or codes. Applied to education, this process invites feedback and participation from developers, educators, government officials, students and parents and empowers them to exchange ideas, improve best practices and create world-class curricula. These “development” communities can form ad-hoc, within the same subject area or around a common student need, and allow for a variety of editing and workflow structures.

Examples

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The resources, assessment rubrics, lesson plans, and instructional resources. All 10,500 pages of content, and 4,240 file uploads are Creative Commons licensed, and of . Moreover, the FTA partners together with several other institutions have started a [http://ftacademy.org/taskforce-international-master-programme-free-software Taskforce for the collaborative design of an International Master Programme in Free Software.^[1]

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.^[2] Saylor has created nearly 241 college courses using open educational resources, making Saylor.org one of the largest currently-available collections of free courses on the web.^[3]

Resources

Futureofthebook.org
eSchool News Online
TeachShare.org - The Community Curriculum Project draws on the knowledge of school teachers, to explain how to teach courses.
OpenContent Curriculum Project
Open-source software in education
Global Text
EduCommons
Creative Commons
Free Technology Academy
Free High School Science Textbook project
UK Innovation/Jorum (Open in UK only)
EISTI-ESSEC - an EU based open courseware repository project with Vivendi involvement - Jean-Hugues Lauret
Project Gutenberg
The Internet Archive
LAMS Community
LAMS
Wikiteach
Common Curriculum - Allows organizations to create curriculum and connect to the teachers using it.
The OpenCourseWare Consortium

References

^ http://ftacademy.org/
^ http://www.saylor.org/
^ [http://www.moodlenews.com/2012/250-oer-courses-and-assessments-in-moodle-how-saylor-org-has-created-one-of-the-largest-open-course-initiatives-on-the-web/ "241 OER Courses with Assessments in Moodle: How Saylor.org has created one of the large�tives on the web"]. Moodle News. Retrieved 23 April 2012. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 88 (help)

[1] ttp://ftacademy.org/

[2] ttp://www.saylor.org/

[3] [http://www.moodlenews.com/2012/250-oer-courses-and-assessments-in-moodle-how-saylor-org-has-created-one-of-the-largest-open-course-initiatives-on-the-web/ "241 OER Courses with Assessments in Moodle: How Saylor.org has created one of the large�tives on the web"]. Moodle News. Retrieved 23 April 2012. {{cite web}}: replacement character in |title= at position 88 (help)

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