Education networks

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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


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

OER Repositories

 Open Content Repositories

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