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OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY.

"The Open Educational Resource (OER) university is a virtual collaboration of like-minded institutions committed to creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit."

Platform that offer free open online course. Support by MIT, Harvard, Berkeley and the University of Texas.

"La UNESCO sostiene que el acceso universal a la educación de gran calidad es esencial para la construcción de la paz, el desarrollo sostenible de la sociedad y la economía y el diálogo intercultural. Los recursos educativos de libre acceso proporcionan una oportunidad estratégica para mejorar la calidad de la educación y para facilitar el diálogo sobre políticas, el intercambio de conocimientos y el aumento de capacidades."

"This micro Open Online Course (mOOC) on open content licensing introduces the concepts of open education, copyright and Creative Commons as a contribution from the OER university collaboration and the UNESCO-COL OER Chair network in widening knowledge and capacity development in support of the global open education movement."

At the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno, students play a game that is built into Blackboard called HML-IQ to orient themselves with the available library resources and how to use them. Top scorers are awarded gift cards to the library's coffee shop upon completing each level. The games were created with open source tools including Snagit.