Open Educational Standards and Resources

Open Educational Standards and Resources

Johns Hopkins OpenCourseware

Johns Hopkins OpenCourseware The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) Project Goals: Provide access to content of the School's most popular courses. Provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public's health and their potential solutions.

African Virtual University

African Virtual University (AVU) Pan African Intergovernmental Organization Goals: Significantly increase access to quality higher education and training through the innovative use of information communication technologies. Increase access for tertiary education and training using Open Distance and eLearning (ODeL) methodologies. Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya

Introducing Copyright

Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Copyright Introduction A plain language guide to copyright in the 21st century By Julien Hofman

Health OER - Featured Presentation

Health OER - Featured Presentation

OER Africa

OER Africa Goals: Play a leading role in driving the development and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) on the African continent. Deploy African experts and expertise to harness the concept of OER to the benefit of higher education systems, institutions, academics, and students on the continent and around the world. Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya Affliated with the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE)

UWC Free Courseware Project

University of the Western Cape (UWC) - The Free Courseware Project Goals: Promote the publication and use of free and open educational resources at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Participate in broader move towards implementation of publicizing and producing open educational resources.

Health OER - OER Africa

Health OER Africa Goals: Enable participants to develop, adapt, and share health education resources to augment limited human and other resources in the health sector and impact positively on overall health provision in Africa and beyond.

Commonwealth of Learning (COL)

Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Intergovernmental organization Goals: Encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. Help developing nations improve access to quality education and training.

OER Commons

OER Commons Created by ISKME Goals: Provide support for and build a knowledge base around the use and reuse of open educational resources (OER). Serve as a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing.