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"Proponents of open education agree that "education can be improved by making educational assets visible and accessible and by harnessing the collective wisdom of a community of practice and reflection."1 Educators at all levels can take advantage of a diverse set of resource repositories for a wide range of disciplines. However, to maximize the utility of these resource collections, it is crucial to incorporate into their design specific strategies to support their sustainability by ensuring both short-term and long-term value. Furthermore, by purposefully integrating learning materials with teaching expertise, the value of open educational resources for teachers can be greatly enhanced. "

"This Open Education project has two main strands: We are developing an e-book which will be a collection of university academics' narratives about their experiences of learning and teaching in their discipline. We are engaging with institutional policy surrounding OER resources as well afunding OERs."

"MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) is a collection of teaching materials, including case studies, industry notes, and management simulations, that MIT Sloan provides as a free teaching resource open and available to the world. Similar to the course syllabi and materials found on MIT's OpenCourseWare site, these materials carry a creative commons license allowing them to be downloaded, copied, and distributed. "

Collection of resources on OER

"The colleges in 15 states and one Canadian province that make up the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) will now be able to tap into the collection of open textbook resources compiled by the international group of institutions that make up the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW Consortium) and vice versa in a new partnership. "

"So now may well be the time to see how other industries have used information technologies and data-gathering techniques to improve the quality of their products while reducing costs. For them, real-time data from supply chain and production processes and interactions between fundamental research and production processes enable adaptive management. We believe that in higher education, data can be collected and current interactions between the learning sciences and instructional practice can be improved for more effective adaptive instruction."

"OER Research The body of work collected here represents the combined efforts of organizations worldwide. During the last ten years, as the Open Educational Resources movement has grown, so has the body of research being produced on the topic. "

"The Last Langauge Textbook is a campaign to build a completely free collection of language lessons that can serve as a textbook replacement, available on the web, for anyone learning introductory English. We are building this material collaboratively using our existing picture choice, podcast, and multiple choice lesson types, along with a new "story book" one and traditional text wiki pages."

Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

"The Community College Open Textbooks Collaborative is funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This collection of sixteen educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges, is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that support for authors opening their resources, and other services."

This is a collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet.