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OER Project is a non-profit open educational resources provider co-founded in 2011 by Bill Gates and David Christian.Originally known as Big History Project (BHP), the titular course was intended to enable the global teaching of the subject of Big History, which has been described as "the attempt to understand, in a unified way, the history of Cosmos, Earth, Life and Humanity."
OER Commons, created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, was developed to serve curriculum experts and educators in discovering open educational resources (OER) and collaborating around the use, evaluation, and improvement of those materials. [1] Resources on the site can be searched and filtered using an ...
Open educational resources ( OER) [ 1] are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify. [ 2][ 3] The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any user to use, re-mix, improve, and redistribute under some licenses. [ 4]
A massive open online course ( MOOC / muːk /) or an open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web. [ 1] In addition to traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive courses with user forums or social media discussions to ...
In Australia, Open Educational Practices (OEP) started around 1998, when some of the first open access initiatives were introduced and supported by the Australian government. [3] In 2002, the open access movement had a substantial boost due to a programme funded by the Australian government called “ Backing Australia’s Ability ”. [4]
OER timeline from WikiEducator; WikiEducator OERu; OER Policy Registry from Creative Commons; Country-specific United Kingdom - CC-BY-SA paper on OER history specifically focused on the UK (by Amber Thomas & David Kernohan). Also many useful references. range of (UK)OER images, all cc-by-sa and generated by Martin Hawksey
The tier one, tier two and tier three article list below was developed originally for the Communicate OER Project; it reflects input from collaborators in Communicate OER, the School of Open "Writing Wikipedia Articles" (WIKISOO) class, and WikiProject Open. Suggestions for inclusion are welcome! Tier one. Open educational resources (main article)
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