Education networks

There are networks at all levels, both creating and looking for materials.

Communities developing learning materials

• Academics : ed schools, universities
• Educators: teaching colleges, administrators
• Teachers : Associations, unions, PTAs
• Parents : PTAs (again), support groups, childcare networks
• Out-of-school support: Unschooling, groups of children outside school (who can't afford it, working full-time, &c)
• Pop: authors, radio personalities targeting parents w/kids

Organizations looking into learning materials

including curricula, spreading books and libraries and tools and computers

• IEARN
• OER Commons
• World Computer Exchange?

The OER Movement

Open Educational Resources are defined as “technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes.” They are typically made freely available over the Web or the Internet. Their principal use is by teachers and educational institutions support course development, but they can also be used directly by students. Open Educational Resources include learning objects such as lecture material, references and readings, simulations, experiments and demonstrations, as well as syllabi, curricula and teachers’ guides. (1)

Projects

• Grapevine (http://oergrapevine.org/) -
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's OER study
• Wiki of the Unesco IIEP community of interest in Open educational resources

OER Repositories

• Connexions (http://cnx.org/)
• Curriki (http://curriki.org/)
• Edplum (http://edplum.org/)
• Free High School Science Texts (FHSST http://www.fhsst.org/)
• Internet Archive: Education (http://www.archive.org/details/education)
• Marco Polo (http://www.marcopolo-education.org/)
• MIT Open Course Ware (http://ocw.mit.edu/)
• OER Commons (http://www.oercommons.org/)
• Open Planner (http://www.openplanner.org/)
• Tapped In (http://tappedin.org/)
• Teach Forward (http://teachforward.org/)
• We The Teachers (http://www.wetheteachers.com/)
• WikiEducator (http://wikieducator.org/)
• Wikigogy (http://wikigogy.org/)
• WikiJET (http://www.wikijet.org/)
• WikiTeach (http://www.wikiteach.org/)
• Wikiversity (http://wikiversity.org/) (2)

 Open Content Repositories

• Creative Commons Search Page (http://search.creativecommons.org/)
• Electrobel Community (http://www.electrobel.be/) More than 10.000 electronic music songs released under CC license.
• BeatPick (http://www.beatpick.com/) A creative commons music licensing site
• CCMixter (http://ccmixter.org/) - A Creative Commons Remix community site.
• Common Content (http://commoncontent.org/) - Lots of stuff
• Magnatune (http://www.magnatune.com/) - CC music (classical, new age, etc.)
• Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/) - An archive of music albums under Creative Commons licenses
• Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/)
• everystockphoto.com (http://www.everystockphoto.com/) - Search engine and member bookmarking for Creative Commons Photos
• The Internet Archive (http://archive.org/) - Project dedicated to maintaining an archive of multimedia resources, among which Creative Commons-licensed content
• Ourmedia (http://www.ourmedia.org/) - Media archive supported by the Internet Archive
• Creative Commons Search (http://search.yahoo.com/cc/) from Yahoo!
• Google Open Content Search (http://opencontent.org/googleocw/)(3)

• Textobook Revolution (http://www.textbookrevolution.org)
• Merlot (http://www.merlot.org)

See also

Google search for Open Educational Resources

References

(1)Unesco 2002 as stated by David Wiley in Opencontent http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/247 visualized in 12/01/2007

(2)OER Grapevine http://oergrapevine.org/OER_projects visualized in 12/01/07

(3)David Wiley in Open Content Wiki in http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=WhereToFindThingsToRemix visualized in 12/01/2007