OER - Open Educational Resources

Lehrer stehen immer mit einem Bein im Gefängnis, sagt man so schön.

Grundsätzlich, so riet der Justiziar des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, solle man sich auf seinen gesunden Menschenverstand verlassen und unterlassen, was zweifelhaft erscheint. Wer digitale Materialien, die ihren Ursprung in einem Lehrbuch haben, in einem Lernmanagementsystem einstellen und den Schülern verfügbar machen möchte, riskiert einen Verstoß gegen geltendes Recht.

Der Rat des Justiziars ist vermutlich der beste. Wer sicher gehen möchte, fertigt keine digitalen Kopien an und stellt diese, falls er sie doch anfertigt, auf gar keinen Fall in einem Lernmanagementsystem zur Verfügung.

its potential is hindered by archaic copyright laws and incompatible technologies. We at Creative Commons work to minimize these barriers, by providing licenses and tools that anyone can use to share their educational materials with the world. Our licenses make textbooks and lesson plans easy to find, easy to share, and easy to customize and combine

We work with the global Open Educational Resources movement, providing the legal framework for Open Educational Resources (OER)

commercial textbook publisher that incorporates CC licenses into its business model. Co-founded by the Director of Marketing for Prentice Hall Business Publishing, FWK makes higher education textbooks freely available via CC BY-NC-SA

Creative Commons’ role as legal and technical infrastructure supporting OER

UNESCO is taking a leading role in "making countries aware of the potential of OER."[30]

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,[16] which was the main financial supporter of open educational resources in the early years and has spent more than $110 million in the 2002 to 2010 period, of which more than $14 million went to MIT.[2] The Shuttleworth Foundation, which focuses on projects concerning collaborative content creation, has contributed as well. With the British government contributing £5.7m,[27] institutional support has also been provided by the UK funding bodies JISC[28] and HEFCE.[29]

Creative Commons, an organisation that provides ready-made licensing agreements that are less restrictive than the "all rights reserved" terms of standard international copyright, is a "critical infrastructure service for the OER movement."[26]

OER movement originated from developments in open and distance learning (ODL) and in the wider context of a culture of open knowledge, open source, free sharing and peer collaboration

MIT OpenCourseWare project is credited for having sparked a global Open Educational Resources Movement after announcing in 2001 that it was going to put MIT's entire course catalog online and launching this project in 2002

aspirations of OER proponents range from a desire to reshape the captive market of textbook publishers[8] to the aim of creating "a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge."

Unterstützt wird diese Open Content Intitative von der William und Flora Hewlett Stiftung mit 4.45 Millionen US Dollar.