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Archive for the ‘open source’ Category

OER is the new milennia for online educational resources a change in paradigms can be seen slowly changing from private information and copyright to open information and copyleft. Open courses and the exchange of coursematerial between educators and the possibility for students anywhere and whomever to take courses for free online is very important for us all to be able to reach a just society where everyone has access to the same level of education. On a global scale this movement for OER is very important, as it gives people in developing countries the possibility to utilize the resources and know-how of old from developed countries. However countries in Africa for example are working very vigorously at providing e-learning resources for their citizens developing new modes of e-learning as well as implementing state-of-the-art tecniques and technology to be in the forefront of this very important field.

Check out:

(in no specific order a random selection)

• http://www.oercommons.org/
• http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
• http://worldbridges.net/
• http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page
• http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/
• http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org
• http://oer.repository.ac.nz/
• http://ocw.mit.edu (close enough)