OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
quality high school, Advanced Placement©, and undergraduate courses that are distributed free to students and teachers and through various licensing fees.
- National Science Teachers Association[1] is developing open online science learning objects for K–12 science teachers.
- Open Universiteit Nederland is working on the OpenER[2] project to introduce OER to Dutch higher education by focusing on high-quality, independent self-study learning materials in an open resource format.
- Open University (UK)[3] is making selections of its higher education learning resources freely available on the Internet, providing users with tools to help them manage their learning, and developing supported collaborative learning communities.
- Stanford University[4] is creating and testing open web-based resources for supporting the teaching and learning of U. S. history.
- Stanford University[5] is developing a strategy to reach financial sustainability for the online, open Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Tufts University continues to publish Tufts OpenCourseWare,[6] which focuses on dental and veterinary medicine as well as international affairs.
- University of California, Berkeley[7] is creating an open online general chemistry course.
- University of California, Irvine[8] is developing open courses and support materials to prepare California teachers for a teaching credential in mathematics.
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