Outline of open educational resources
This outline of open educational resources provides a way of navigating concepts and topics in relation to the open educational resources movement.
Definitions
Concepts of open
- Gratis vs. libre
- Free cultural work and Free content
- Open content
- Openness
- Digital freedom
- Libre knowledge
- Open knowledge
Relationship to other educational concepts
- Open education
- Adult Education
- Self-directed Learning
- Prior Learning Assessment (PLA/PLAR)
- Distance Education
- Online Education
Goals and aims
- The Cape Town [Open Education Declaration]
- UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration
- 2009 Dakar Declaration on Open Educational Resources
- Berlin Declaration on Open [Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities]
How to design learning using OER
Tools
Access and delivery
Learning
- Open educational resources
- Recursos educativos abiertos
- OER Commons
- Connexions
- Open textbooks
- Open content
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Open access journals
- Learning objects
Licensing
Methods/Philosophy
- Open learning
- Open educational practices
- Connectivism
- Heutagogy
- Open supported learning
- Flexible learning
- E-learning theory
Types of learning experiences
- MOOCs
- Personal learning environments
- Networked learning
- Blended learning
- Virtual learning environment
- Purpose-centered learning
Programs and initiatives
- Athabasca University in Canada
- OER initiatives
- Open university
- OER Foundation
- OER Universitas
- OER Africa
- Khan Academy
- Open University in the United Kingdom
- The Saylor Foundation
- Wikibooks
- Wikiversity
- WikiEducator
- Open.Michigan
- Commonwealth of Learning
- Open Learning for Development
Governance, policies and standards
- Open [educational resources policy]
- Open-door academic policy
- United Kingdom Accreditation Service
- 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO s:Guidelines for Open [Educational Resources in Higher Education|Guidelines on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education]
- 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources