Open Educational Resources Overview: Other Sources for Open Educational Resources

The Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their blended learning initiatives.

This Blended Learning Toolkit is a free repository of information, tools, resources, models, examples, and research related to blended learning. Offered under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA), it is designed to assist any faculty member or institution in developing a blended course or program.

Their mission is to expand access to education by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Over 200 colleges have joined the consortium and many more participate in their activities and use resources posted here

Moodle is a free application that educators can use to create online learning sites.

The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education. They envision a world where everyone, everywhere has access to the education they need to build their futures. They seek to instill openness as a feature of education around the world, allowing greatly expanded access to education while providing a shared body of knowledge upon which innovative and effective approaches to today’s social problems can be built. The Open Education Consortium realizes change by leveraging its sources of expert opinion, its global network and its position as the principal voice of open education.

OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.

The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts

Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. They make it incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where professors/teachers and students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give professors/teachers the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time. Wikispaces Classroom works great on modern browsers, tablets, and phones.

Wikispaces Classroom is free for professors/teachers and students. They have over 10 million registered professors/teachers and students on the platform.

African Virtual University (AVU) is a Pan African Intergovernmental Organization whose aim is to significantly increase access to quality higher education and training through the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies.

Founded in 1997, AVU has graduated 43,000 students across Africa and established the largest network of Open Distance and eLearning institutions in over 30 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. AVU works across borders and languages in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa.

Fourteen African Governments - Kenya, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Tanzania, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, and South Sudan have signed a Charter establishing the AVU as an Intergovernmental Organization.

They are a borderless, largely volunteer community of more than 800 writers, analysts, online media experts and translators.

They curate, verify and translate trending news and stories you might be missing on the Internet, from blogs, independent press and social media in 167 countries.

Many of the world's most interesting and important stories aren't in just one place. Sometimes they’re scattered in bits and pieces across the Internet, in blog posts and tweets, and in multiple languages. These are the stories they accurately report on Global Voices—and translate into up to 30 languages, including Malagasy, Bangla and Aymara.

Google's open source software that is designed to let anyone create online education courses.

The Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) from European Schoolnet (EUN) is a service that enables schools to find educational content from many different countries and providers. It was developed in order to provide Ministries of Education with access to a network of learning content repositories and associated tools that allow them to more easily exchange high quality learning resources that ‘travel well’ and can be used by teachers in different countries.

LibreOffice is community-driven and developed software, and is a project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document Foundation.

This online service offers easy access to the NCERT textbooks. The service covers textbooks of all subjects published by NCERT for classes I to XII in Hindi, English and Urdu. The Entire book or individual chapters can be downloaded provided the terms of use as mentioned in the Copyright Notice is adhered to.

OpenEd describes itself as "the world's largest educational resource catalog," currently with more than 250,000 videos, games, and other resources aligned to standards.

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC believes that faster and wider sharing of the outputs of the scholarly research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments. SPARC focuses on taking action in collaboration with stakeholders – including authors, publishers, and libraries – to build on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship.

The OER Knowledge Cloud has been established to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate available documents of enduring value to researchers, industry, government, scholars, writers, historians, journalists and informal learners.

Doug Johnson is director of media and technology at Mankato Area Public Schools, Mankato, Minnesota. He is the author of Classroom Teacher's Technology Survival Guide (Jossey-Bass, 2012).

OERs, from art to special education.

Everything from books to quizzes and videos here, includes directories on open source and open educational resources.

Search, create, or organize digital information binders by age, grade, or subject.

Since early 2005 they have been dedicated to building the world's easiest to use wiki service by listening closely to the ever growing Wikispaces community.

They now host millions of wikis for over fourteen million people and have products designed for the smallest classroom and the world's largest corporations and institutions.

From the U.S. Departments of Education and Defense, an open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers who are collaborating to broadly share resources, as well as information about how those resources are used by educators in diverse learning environments across the Web.

Legal Informatics Blog is devoted to scholarly and professional discussion of legal information systems and the study of them, a field of information science that is also called “legal informatics,” and to the study of legal communication

They are a small research, engineering, and editorial group housed at the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY. Their collaborators include publishers, legal scholars, computer scientists, government agencies, and other groups and individuals that promote open access to law, worldwide.

New Media Rights is a non-profit, independently funded program of California Western School of Law that provides legal services, education, and public policy advocacy for Internet users and creators.