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Welcome to the OER Commons Wiki, a shared workspace for individuals and groups of educators to develop and share open educational resources. What are OER? Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.

This storytelling framework seeks to assist OER projects in documenting and sharing key developments in the creation, use and reuse of open educational resources. By using the template to tell your story, you can help to build capacity for inquiry and information sharing across projects worldwide, which can in turn help your own as well as other projects to: * Discover unknown potential within projects; * Learn how other OER projects have overcome similar challenges and fulfilled similar needs; * Improve networking so that relevant learnings and opportunities can be identified and leveraged; * Use unique experiences and expertise to help other OER projects and to advance the field at large

To what extent is OER part of the cultural imperialism being felt "globally"?

List of open-source tools for teaching

ccLearn is always on the look out for helpful and informative media championing the strengths of open educational resources. If you know of a good OER resource, helpful article, or interesting video, please let us know and we will examine it for inclusion. This page is constantly being updated, so be sure to come back and check out the latest information on open education.

105 MOOCs starting in Feb 2014 This is a list of 105 MOOCs starting this February (Feb 2014) and the list covers a variety of domain like Business & Management, Humanities, Medical Science, etc

Brian Lamb's new UBC Open Education wiki toolkit

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files into your own computer:

These essays by leaders in open education describe successes, challenges, and opportunities they have found in a range of open education initiatives. They approach-from both macro and micro perspectives-the central question of how open education tools, resources, and knowledge can improve the quality of education.