CMU's OLI

S. New Hampshire U's new Innovation Lab is focusing on becoming a leader in OER; member of OERu Bell [leader of Lab] stated, "Our alliance with the OERu is the first step towards our formal charge to develop a truly disruptive model that challenges the culture of a closed, proprietary education system,"

"Project Kaleidoscope is implementing a set of fully open general education courses across eight colleges serving predominantly at-risk students. The project will dramatically reduce textbook costs and allow collaborative improvement of course design to improve student success."

"eight colleges in California, New York and Nebraska recently founded Project Kaleidoscope, Converge reports. Under this project, faculty from the schools are collaborating on open general education courses, which will only require students to pay about $30 on textbooks per class."

Tools for creating, distributing & reusing OER, from the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education

"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."

Duke chemistry class built around OER.

Presentation by Matt Gold at MobilityShifts making the case for the commons in higher ed.

Presentation by Matt Gold at MobilityShifts making the case for the commons in higher ed.

"Open.Michigan is a University of Michigan initiative that enables faculty, students, and others to share their educational resources and research with the global learning community."

The overall aim of OPAL is to support Open Educational Practice. This will lead to improvement of the effectiveness of teaching and learning by enhancing the quantity and quality of Open Educational Resources that can be incorporated into higher education and further education provision.

"The CSU's Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and students each semester."