OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
- Commonwealth of Learning[1] is supporting Open Educational Resources activities to infuse the principles of Open Educational Resources into the Commonwealth of Learning’s wide array of activities.
- European Association of Distance Teaching Universities[2] is in the first stage of an effort to explore using free web-based courses to stimulate learning among all people.
- Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education[3] is building a website to increase awareness and understanding about open educational resources (OER) and to provide support for needed OER field-building activities.
- New America Foundation[4] is accelerating the constructive dialogue between commercial and noncommercial stakeholders active in the digitization and publication, broadly defined, of educational and cultural heritage materials.
- One Economy[5] is improving content on an online education website and supporting a youth technology program benefiting the residents of affordable housing developments in San Francisco and San Jose.
- General software and middleware services infrastructure for creating, federating, and finding OER resources.—Besides the software developed within the context of specific OCW projects, there have been some activities related to creating generic software and services and/or linking with existing open source middleware projects. The Open University UK under LabSpace[6] and the Rice Connexions Project have also created open tools.
- Foothill–De Anza Community College District (with the University of Michigan) is implementing the next generation of the Easy to Use Distance Education System[7] (ETUDES-NG) open source software across California community colleges, and is contributing to the development and enhancement of tools to support online learning.
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