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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]
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 ...
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."
Open educational practices fall under the broader movement of openness in education, which is an evolving concept shaped by the shifting needs and available resources of societies, cultures, geographies, and economies. [5] Developing a precise definition, thus, is a challenge. OEP are sometimes used interchangeably with the term open ...
Communicate OER offered instructions and advice for those just getting to know Wikipedia. It was founded in a deep respect for, and knowledge of, Wikipedia's values and policies; it was conducted in a transparent way; all participants were trained in distinguishing between advocacy and neutral, verifiable information, and advised to leave any ...
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)
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection ( DEP) is the department of the government of New York City [ 2] that manages the city's water supply and works to reduce air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution. Under a 1.3 billion dollar budget, it provides more than 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m 3) of water each day to ...