OER's: Models of sustainability

By Dolors Capdet

February 2009

OER's: Models of sustainability

MIT OCW

OER's: Models of sustainability

MIT OCW

MIT OCW began with grants totaling $11 million, contributed in equal amounts by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and committed $1 million of its own funds during the first two years of the project.

Is supported through the generosity of people who believe that unlocking knowledge can empower minds.

The MIT faculty have contributed with supplemental resources.

OER's: Models of sustainability

Connexions

OER's: Models of sustainability

Connexions

Major Foundation Support

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Maxfield Foundation

Individual Sponsors

Burton McMurtry

William Sick

Michael Stewart

J. Thomas and Nancy Eubank

Research and Corporate Support

The National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation Program

National Instruments

Hewlett-Packard Corporation

George R. Brown Endowment for Undergraduate Education

The CLASS Foundation

University Support

Rice University

OER's: Models of sustainability

Stanford

Stanford and the School of Engineering (SEE) believe that technology transfer is an important part of its mission. This includes research and teaching.

SEE’s pilot program was funded by Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that helped launch Cisco, Google, Yahoo, NVidia and many other successful technology startups.

OER's: Models of sustainability

Open University of the UK

The OpenLearn story started in 2005 with the goal to open access to education for all.

The website was launched in October 2006 and offers a full range of Open University subject.

In April 2008 OpenLearn reached its target to have 5,400 learning hours of content in the LearningSpace and 8100 hours in the LabSpace.

The OpenLearn story started in 2005 with a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

OER's: Models of sustainability

Yale

Yale believes that leading universities can make an important contribution to expanding access to educational resources through the use of internet technology.

The goals of the project also align with the University's aim to increase its presence and strengthen its relationships internationally.

Open Yale Courses is supported by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, CA. Through its Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative, launched in 2001, the Hewlett Foundation seeks to use information technology to help equalize access to knowledge and educational opportunities across the world.

OER's: Models of sustainability

Curriki

Curriki's repository is an open source, offering easy access to online materials.

Users can select and modify existing content to shape their own online course (full or custom).

Has over 40,000 registered members and over 14,000 actives of learning in the repository.

Curriki have different ways of funding and accepts donations individuales.

OER's: Models of sustainability

Curriki

Content Partners The Consortium for Entrepreneurship

Education Cool School EDC Free High School Science Texts

(FHSST) LEARN Learn Without Limits Learnthings Africa Listen for Life (LFL) Merit Software Next Vista for Learning Nortel LearniT

The National Repository of Online Courses

OER Commons Road of Life: Cancer Prevention for

Kids Panwapa SMARTHINKING Millennium Project Winpossible

Sponsors Bechtel Foundation Nortel LearniT Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Sun Microsystems

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WGBH Teachers Domainlink

Open Educational Resources (OER) on Teachers’ Domain allow:

Download these resources to the own computer or compatible viewing device.

Download and share many of these with the students and colleagues in any kind of free, educational presentation.

Download, Share and Remix some of these to create your own educational media mash-ups.

OER's: Models of sustainability

WGBH Teachers Domainlink

Funders National Science Foundation Institute of Museum and Library

Services Open Society Institute Argosy Foundation WPPSEF U.S. Department of Education The Camille and Henry Dreyfus

Foundation The John D. and Catherine T.

MacArthur Foundation Education through Cultural and

Historical Organizations

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Energy Education for the 21st Century Between the Lions Early Reading Partnership for a Nation of Learners Pennsylvania Public Television Network Vulcan Productions, Inc. T3 - Teachers Teaching with

Technology Professional Development Services from Texas Instruments

NASA PA Space Grant

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Hippocampus

HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) that was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone.

Your content has been developed by some of the finest colleges and universities in the world and contributed to the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), another MITE project.

Both HippoCampus and NROC are supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

OER's: Models of sustainability

Merlot

MERLOT is a community that has a repository with eleven types of teaching materials.

It perform a selection of materials, peer review and use Creative Commons license.

The Admit subscriptions and donations.

OER's: Models of sustainability

Resources:

MIT OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm) Connexions (http://cnx.org/) Stanford (http://see.stanford.edu/) Yale (http://oyc.yale.edu/) Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php) Curriki (http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome) WGBH Teachers Domainlink (http://www.teachersdomain.org/) Hippocampus (http://www.hippocampus.org/) MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm)