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The Public Knowledge Project is a research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments.

Knowledge Hub (KHUB) is a public, multilingual hub that allows you to discover selected Open Educational Resources (OERs) using metadata built by experts, faceted searching and social networking tools to help teachers and students find the best resources for their educational needs.

We preserve the best of the old - books by leading experts that are rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards. Then we flip it all on its head. Our books are free online. We offer convenient, low-cost choices for students - print, audio, by-the-chapter, and more. Our books are open for instructors to mix, mash, and make their own. Our books are the hub of a social learning network where students learn from the book and each other.

initiative that will launch in 2009

LearnHub is for people who love learning and sharing knowledge with others. It is a set of tools that make learning online fun and engaging, and teaching online easy and effective.

great website... all you need for creating or joining a thriving learning community..

We are moving from a supply to a demand side view of learning. "Learnscapes are the platforms where knowledge workers collaborate, solve problems, converse, share ideas, brainstorm, learn, explain, communicate, conceptualise, tell stories, help one another, teach, serve customers, keep up to date, forge partnerships, build communities, and distribute information. Learnscapes define where and how modern work is performed. Training programs are events; learnscapes are longterm processes."

The Mine! project is about equipping people with tools and functionality to enable them: * take charge of their data (content, relationships, transactions, knowledge) * arrange (analyse, manipulate, combine, mash-up) it according to their needs and preferences and * share it on their own terms * whilst connected and networked on the web.

Friends is an attempt to build up a community network around the concept of Equal Opportunity Research Publishing also based on the Open Access Initiative movement : The Budapest Open Access Initiative , the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.

In this article, George Siemens suggests that the developments of technology and social learning theory are creating a sequence of change pressures that will alter traditional education. In particular, he tries to depict education in the future..

another initiative to create free (open access) textbooks