Browse: OER Community Type: Organizations and Associations

Access Excellence

• Abstract: Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides health, biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. The program was originally developed and launched by Genentech Inc., and in 1999 joined the National Health Museum, a non-profit organization founded by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop as a national center for health education. Access Excellence will form the core of the educational component of the National Health Museum Website that is currently under development. .

• Subject: Science and Technology
• Grade Level: Secondary

Advanced Distributed Learning

• Abstract: The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD P&R) was tasked with leading a collaborative effort to harness the power of information technologies to modernize structured learning. Through the sponsorship of the OUSD P&R, the creation of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative was formed as a developer and implementer of learning technologies across the Department of Defense (DoD). ADL employs a structured, adaptive, collaborative effort between the public and private sectors to develop the standards, tools and learning content for the learning environment of the future. The vision of the ADL Initiative is to provide access to the highest-quality learning and performance aiding that can be tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively, anytime and anywhere.

• Subject: Science and Technology

Ariadne (European Union)

• Abstract: The ARIADNE Foundation was created to exploit and further develop the results of the ARIADNE and ARIADNE II European Projects, which created tools and methodologies for producing, managing and reusing computer-based pedagogical elements and telematics supported training curricula.

Association of Internet Researchers

• Abstract: The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a resource and support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope.

• Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences

BC Campus (Canada)

• Abstract: BCcampus was established in 2002, with a mandate to provide British Columbia learners with a web-based access point to online learning programs and services.

Berkman Center for Internet & Society

• Abstract: The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.
  
  We investigate the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of code, of commerce, of governance, and of education, and the relationship of law to each. We do this through active rather than passive research, believing that the best way to understand cyberspace is to actually build out into it.

• Subject: Science and Technology

CALIBRATE (Calibrating eLearning in Schools)

• Abstract: The CALIBRATE (Calibrating eLearning in Schools) project (October 2005 – March 2008) brings together eight Ministries of Education, (including six MoEs from new member states), to carry out a multi-level project designed to support the collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.

• Subject: Science and Technology

The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning

• Abstract: The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning is housed in the Instructional Technology Department at Utah State University in Logan, UT.The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning helps people access high quality learning opportunities. By evangelizing open education, developing open source software, fostering strategic partnerships, and providing related services, COSL strives to create a worldwide environment in which individuals are able to gain access to the learning opportunities they want and need, and in which open education is a respected part of the larger educational ecosystem.

CETIS Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards

• Abstract: CETIS provides a national research and development service to UK Higher and Post-16 Education sectors, funded by the JISC (the Joint Information Systems Committee). This includes providing strategic advice to JISC, supporting its development programmes, representing it on international standardisation initiatives, and working with the wider educational community to facilitate the use of standards-based eLearning, especially through Special Interest Groups. We also provide direct support for the JISC eLearning Programme, especially the eFramework and Design for Learning strands.

• Grade Level: Post-secondary

Chinese Open Resources for Education

• Abstract: CORE—China Open Resource for Education--- is a non-profit organization. Its mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education.
  
  CORE is committed to providing Chinese universities with free and easy access to global open educational resources.

Colorado Teaching Learning and Technology

• Abstract: Welcome to the Colorado Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) web site. CTLT was established over four years ago to move innovations in technology and data-driven decision-making into the practice of educators (Pre-K-20) across Colorado. CTLT is now a project of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver. We continue to serve educators at all levels through a variety of grant-funded and fee-for service initiatives. This website provides a window to the varied offerings of CTLT as well as links to additional information about the projects that CTLT either leads or in which CTLT participates.

• Grade Level: Primary, Secondary, Post-secondary

CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Website

• Abstract: Welcome to the website for the new CoSN K-12 Open Technologies Leadership Initiative.
  
  The goal of this Web site is to help educators and technologists with the planning, evaluation, decision-making, and implementation processes associated with adopting Open Technologies in K-12.

• Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
• Grade Level: Primary, Secondary

Creative Commons

• Abstract: Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
  
  We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them to declare "some rights reserved."
  
  Thus, a single goal unites Creative Commons' current and future projects: to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules.

Digital Learning Commons

• Abstract: The Digital Learning Commons is a nonprofit organization working to improve access to educational opportunities and learning resources by providing high-quality educational materials, online courses, and technology tools to all students and teachers in Washington State.

Digital Library Federation

• Abstract: The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic information technologies to extend collections and services.
  
  The DLF documents and promotes strategies for developing sustainable, scaleable, digital collections, and encourages the development of new collections and collection services.
  
  The DLF identifies, documents, endorses, and promotes adoption of standards and best practices that support the effective acquisition, interchange, persistence, and assessment of digital library collections and services.

Digital Media Project

• Abstract: A not-for-profit organisation with the mission to "promote continuing successful development, deployment and use of Digital Media that respect the rights of creators and rights holders to exploit their works, the wish of end users to fully enjoy the benefits of Digital Media and the interests of various value-chain players to provide products and services.

• Subject: Science and Technology

Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER)

• Abstract: An international partnership that will build a large-scale public infrastructure for research information across Europe. The "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" (DRIVER) project responds to the vision that any form of scientific-content resource, including scientific/technical reports, research articles, experimental or observational data, rich media and other digital objects should be freely accessible through simple Internet-based infrastructures.

• Subject: Science and Technology, Social Sciences
• Grade Level: Post-secondary

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)

• Abstract: The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.

• Subject: Science and Technology

EduForge

• Abstract: Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. You are welcome to use our community resources or start your own project space.
  Registration is free.

EduResources Portal

• Abstract: The EduResources Portal--a Gateway to Higher Education Instructional Resources . . . including Tufts University, Development Gateway, and a host of other sites.