Composition of links and notes on Open Educational Resources with a focus on noncommercial aspects. From the perspective of software engineering.
Major Actors
| Organisation | Full Name | Objectives, Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation | Coordination of activities in order to provide access to OER at the global level. "UNESCO works to create inclusive knowledge societies and empower local communities by increasing access to and preservation and sharing of information and knowledge in all of UNESCO’s domains."[1]. They maintain a page where they describe their commitment to OER (and Open Access to Scientific Information). |
| COL | Commonwealth of Learning | "... intergovernmental organisation ... to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies." [2] |
| Open Education Consortium | Open Education Consortium | "... worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education." [3] |
| MIT OCW | Massachusetts Institiute of Technology Open Courseware | "The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone." [4] |
| HF | The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | " (HF) has worked with OER grantees to improve education globally by making high-quality academic materials openly available on the Internet." [5] |
Universities / Institutes
| OpenDOAR | Directory of Open Access Repositories | A global directory of repositories. "OpenDOAR is primarily a service to enhance and support the academic and research activities of the global community. OpenDOAR maintains a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories." [6] Located in Nottingham, UK. List of registered universities and institutes by country: [1] |
| UNESCO chairs | UNESCO chairs for OER | List of universties which works together with (in behalf of?) UNESCO on OER and similar themes. |
| OER Africa | OER Africa | Support for higher education institutions across Africa in the development and use of OER. Established by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide). |
| Saide | South African Institute for Distance Education | NGO with OER projects in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Located at Johannesburg, ZA. |
| ISKME | Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education | Institute for research and inovation in continious learning. Founder of OER Commons. Located near San Francisco, USA. |
| Jisc | Joint Information Systems Committee | Public body to support post-16 and higher education in the UK by maintaining of ICT and OER technologies. Located at Bristol and London, UK. See: [2]. |
| Cetis | Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards | "We are active in the development and implementation of open standards."[7]. Located at Bolton, UK. |
| OER RH | OER Research Hub | "OER Research Hub gathers research on the impact of open educational resources on learning and teaching practices."[8]. Located at Milton Keynes, UK. |
Initiatives / NGOs / Resources
| OER Initiatives in Africa | List of OER initiatives all over Africa. | |
| Repositories, worldwide | List of OER repositories all over the world. |
Portals
| edx | A portal with courses at university level. | |
| Gooru | A portal for teachers and students: customize and share content, track student progress. | |
| Khan Academy | Micro lectures with a focus on natural science. | |
| OpenEd | Similar to Gooru. Focused on K-12 (USA) resources. | |
| MIT OCW | Materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects. |
Databases for Teaching Materials
| OpenDOAR | Retrieve in OpenDOAR | |
| OER Commons | Retrieve in OER Commons. | |
| MIT OCW | Retrieve in MIT Open Courseware. | |
| NROER (India) | Retrieve in National Repository of Open Educational Resources (India). |
Standards
https://wiki.dnb.de/display/DINIAGKIM/OER-Metadaten-Gruppe
Metadatenstandards (LOM, LRMI etc.) und Mappings, Kontrollierte Vokabulare, Konvertierungssoftware, Austauschprotokolle, verschiedene Arten der Exponierung von Metadaten (APIs, Linked Open Data,...). Das erste Ziele dieser Gruppe ist es, eine Harmonisierung der OER-Metadaten im deutschsprachigen Raum zu erreichen und hierzu eine Empfehlung zu erarbeiten.
Formats
Tools
Moodle (SW, platform, ...) http://www.goorulearning.org
Blogs
| Person, Organisation | Link | Objectives, Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| John Robertson, Cetis, UK | John's Blog | An overview. Focused on activities in UK (Cetis). |
| John Robertson, Cetis, UK | John's next Blog | Technology and descriptive choices. |
| John Robertson, Cetis, UK | ... and one more | Meta information, content description, packaging (DC, LOM, IMS, ...). |
Wikis
Congresses
| OER 2015 | Focused on UK | Cardiff, UK |
| OER Global Consortium 2015 | Banff, Alberta, Canada | |
| OER 2014 | Focused on UK | Newcastle, UK |
| OER Global Consortium 2014 | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
http://unesco.de/fileadmin/medien/Dokumente/Bildung/Was_sind_OER__cc.pdf
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Abbreviations
MOOC: Massive open online course
OCWC: Open Course Ware Consortium
SCORE: Support Centre for Open Resources in Education
References
- ↑ http://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies
- ↑ http://www.col.org/about/Pages/default.aspx
- ↑ http://www.oeconsortium.org/about-oec/
- ↑ http://ocw.mit.edu/about/
- ↑ http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources
- ↑ http://opendoar.org/about.html
- ↑ http://www.cetis.ac.uk/about/
- ↑ http://oerresearchhub.org/about-2/