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Our Goals\n\n * Minimize legal, technical, and social barriers to the creation and reuse of OER.\n * Bring new communities and groups into the world of open learning.\n * Change the culture of education so that teachers have greater control over their pedagogy, greater freedom to experiment, and a larger community for support.\n * Empower participation and expertise in education from around the world.\n

- Primary Focus: o Making scientific research "re-useful" - We develop and promote policy and tools to help people and organizations open and mark their research and data sets for reuse. As part of this work, we released an "open data" protocol to enable the global scientific community to pool and use data created under different legal regimes. o Enabling "one-click" access to research tools - We offer a suite of standardized contracts to bring the efficiencies and economies of scale from e-commerce to the world of scientific tools, so researchers can easily replicate, verify, and extend research. o Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze, and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language.