La completa lista de recursos educacionales abiertos que sigue, fue recientemente publicada en el sitio de Online Education Database. La presentamos aquí en su idioma original, para permitir el seguimiento y la investigación “hypervincular” (la suya, la mía, la nuestra), sin descartar su traducción al español, mas adelante.
80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives.
Published on Tuesday 24th of April, 2007.
Online Education Database (http://oedb.org)
Many Open Education Resources (OER) that have been introduced by governments, universities, and individuals within the past few years. OERs provide teaching and learning materials that are freely available and offered online for anyone to use. Whether you're an instructor, student, or self-learner, you have access to full courses, modules, syllabi, lectures, assignments, quizzes, activities, games, simulations, and tools to create these components.
While some OERs include OpenCourseWare (OCW) or other educational materials, they may also offer the means to alter those courses through editing, adding to those courses through publication, and the ability to shape the tools that share those resources. Additionally, they may maintain forums or other platforms where individuals can collaborate on building educational tools and documentation and the reach for those materials.
To that end, the list below — arranged in alphabetical order — includes 80 online resources that you can use to learn how to build or participate in a collaborative educational effort that focuses on publication and development of those materials. Although some choices focus solely on publication, development, or tools used to accomplish either effort, some provide multifaceted venues that offer communities a space to collaborate on one or all of these efforts. Collaborators can include institutions, colleges or universities, educators, students, or the general public.
This list is not all-inclusive, as resources that offer limited collaboration were excluded. Two examples include the University of North Carolina's Open Courseware Lab and the Maricopa Learning Exchange, as both facilities make their information public but collaboration is limited to educators within those colleges. Other sites, like LydiaLearn, were nonfunctional when this article was written, so information about their offerings was unavailable for this project. Finally, resources that focus solely on K-12 education were saved for another time and place. The resources below focus solely on higher education or encompass all levels of education.
1. AEShareNet — AEShareNet is a collaborative system to streamline the licensing of intellectual property so that Australian learning materials are developed, shared and adapted efficiently. There are two ways to connect people: firstly, using Instant Licences, which are freely available, when you attach a relevant Mark; or alternatively, through Mediated licences, which are transacted online through the AEShareNet Service.
2. Apple Learning Interchange — The new Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a set of free resources for educators that provides a single access point to find media and ideas for classroom activities produced by their peers, by Apple, and by Apple content affiliates like NASA, The Smithsonian, and the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Educators can connect with each other through simple searching, messaging, iChat and collaborative publication tools, and they can submit projects as simple as classroom snapshots or as complex as multi-page abstracts for assessment, enhancement, and peer review.
3. Ariadne — 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. Software design and development expertise, accumulated by Europe's best IT/ODL academic departments and ARIADNE engineers in building educational software tools, might also be exchanged and transfered to those members that volunteer to participate in the Foundation tools' further development.
4. ATutor — ATutor is an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS) designed with accessibility and adaptability in mind. Administrators can install or update ATutor in minutes, develop custom templates to give ATutor a new look, and easily extend its functionality with feature modules. Educators can quickly assemble, package, and redistribute Web-based instructional content, easily retrieve and import prepackaged content, and conduct their courses online.
5. Center for Open and Sustainable Learning — COSL provides a mix of research, development, and teaching resources, projects, and activities for the educational community. COSL is part of the Department of Instructional Technology at Utah State University in Logan, UT.
6. Citadel — A collaboration among Hofstra University, the College of New Jersey, Pennsylvania State University, Villanova University and Virginia Tech, as part of the US National Science Foundation's National Science Digital Library Project. CITIDEL is a digital library of educational resources for the computing field, harvested from ten differerent source collections.Additionally, with professional associations and publishers such as ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, they intend to engage in a broad range of community development activities such as workshops, where they intend to expand knowledge and skills regarding the creation and use of innovative online courseware for computing and information technology education.
7. Citizendium — The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names.
8. Civicus — Based upon requests from members, CIVICUS has produced several toolkits to enable organisations to improve their capacity in a number of areas. From communications and planning skills to writing funding proposals, you'll find tips, tools, and ideas to help strengthen your organisation. Toolkits are available in English, French, Spanish and Russian in MS Word and PDF formats.
9. CLOE — The Co-operative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE) is a collaboration among Ontario universities and colleges for the development, sharing, and reuse of multimedia-rich learning resources. This occurs through the CLOE Learning Object repository.
10. Confluence — An enterprise Wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge.
11. Connexions — Rice University's Connexions project creates an open environment for collaborative development, free sharing, and publishing scholarly content through non-linear modules. Anyone may view or contribute materials, adapt them, and contribute them back to the Content Commons which is free to use and reuse under Creative Commons "attribution" license. Documents are offered in English, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai.
12. Contentbank — This site promotes the development of online content for and by low-income and underserved communities. It is a project of The Children's Partnership (TCP), a national, nonprofit child advocacy organization. Goals include the ability to make it easier for community-based organizations and the individuals they serve to create their own content and to encourage the public and private sectors to develop useable content for low-income and underserved Americans.
13. Commonwealth of Learning — This link will take you to their Curriculum and course material development and transfer, one valuable tool among many contained on this stie that will help you with your publishing efforts. COL also maintains two online databases of learning content (Learning Object Repository) that provides support to Commonwealth countries free of charge.
14. Development Gateway Communities — This site offers learning content, tools, and implementation resources for educators, students and self-learners a wide range of subjects and course materials aggregated from leading schools and OER portals. The main objective of this Web site is to make available training and capacity-building resources developed by a variety of stakeholders worldwide in a myriad subject, including literacy, computers, business, environment, community development and much more. It aims at providing trainers and learners with the resources they need and a space where they can share and use material.
15. Digital Divide Network — At DDN, you can build your own online community, publish a blog, share documents and discussions with colleagues, and post news, events and articles.
16. DSpace — DSpace is an open source digital repository software system for research institutions. Sponsored by MIT Libraries & Hewlett-Packard Company, developers can use the DSpace Wiki to keep in touch with one another and to share and contribute code fixes and enhancements.
17. EDNA The Education Network of Australia (edna) is a collaborative project between the Commonwealth, state and territory governments, across all education sectors, to establish and operate an educational electronic network. Anyone may access the edna website to use the resources, information and communication areas for education and training purposes, and contribute by suggesting websites, news and events, by providing feedback via 'contact us,' by joining an email discussion list or online group, or by becoming a member of the metadata harvesting community.
18. Educational Object Economy — EOE is an online community that explores issues in technology and learning, open and collaborative development, and sustainability. The site sustains a digital library, projects, and reports on outreach to developing countries and countries in transition, including Turkey (where the EOE site is now mirrored), Brazil,and the Republic of Kazakhstan.
19. EduCause — EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Get involved in one of their many initiatives, including ELI, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative that supports new collegiate learning environments that use IT to improve the quality of teaching and learning, contain or reduce rising costs, and provide greater access to higher education.
20. eduCommons — eduCommons is an OpenCourseWare management system designed specifically to support OpenCourseWare projects like the MIT OCW and USU OCW.
21. EduForge — 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 their community resources or start your own project space. Explore, test, and create in EduForge's Toolbox environment, create content using their eXe (eLearning XHTML Editor Project) off-line authoring environment.
22. EduTools — WCET’s EduTools provides independent reviews, side-by-side comparisons, and consulting services to assist decision-making in the e-learning community. Their Online Course Evaluation Project (OCEP) provides access and functionality to give users of this content an effective tool to search and compare course evaluations.
23. ELGG — Elgg is an open source social networking platform developed for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which encompasses weblogging, file storage, RSS aggregation, personal profiles, FOAF functionality and more. Curverider Ltd, the company behind Elgg, are looking for developers who are proficient in PHP and command a detailed knowledge of the platform. Their workload is increasing and they require some coding help.
24. ESCOT — ESCOT is a testbed for the integration of innovative technology in middle school mathematics. The project is comprised of a handful of organizations, including research institutions, software publishers, and a Web portal. The project investigates replicable practices that produce predictably high quality digital learning resources.
25. ETUDES Project — The ETUDES Consortium is a community of institutions and individuals who are supporting teaching, learning, and collaboration, and expanding educational opportunities to learners through ETUDES-NG. The ETUDES Project leads open source software development of web-based learning tools and offers centralized hosting, training, and support to its members. ETUDES-NG is the project's custom Sakai implementation.
26. The Facilitation of the Transfer of Learning Material — Part of the Eldis Gateway, this material provides practical advice to producers and users in selling, transferring, purchasing and acquiring teaching materials. It is designed to facilitate the inter-institutional negotiation processes between producers and users and to identify the roles that COL may play in specific transfer and accreditation situations.
27. Filamentality — Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Internet, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. In the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages. Take advantage of AT&T's workshops and videoconferencing capabilities that enhance educational collaboration. AT&T also maintains the Blue Web'n library where you can search for 2064 Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format.
28. Free Curricula Center — The Center helps its participants work together to create textbooks, instructor guides, and other materials for the subjects in which they have expertise. They do this by providing online tools to help educators collaborate successfully and by proving a space on the Internet where students can have free, easy access to their finished products. They also serve as a link to the resources of others, and mirror their material when permitted.
29. Global Education & Learning Community — GELC embraces open source and Java developers around the globe who share a passion and commitment to contributing to the development of useful, quality code for applications/services that meet the needs of their end users. for the development of useful tools, resources and best practices that help education world wide.
30. Globewide Network Academy — GNA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose purpose is the research and development of open source tools that promote distance learning and online communities. They are happy to share their research and code and to provide support services to other open source projects and non-profits. They are currently in the process of moving their WikiGuides to Wikiversity.
31. Google for Educators — Find a teacher’s guide to Google Tools for Your Classroom, as well as a number of additional tools. And to spark your imagination, you'll find examples of innovative ways that other educators are using these tools in the classroom. Take advantage of the Google OCW, Google's answer to a search tool for a federated search of all OCWs and various other collections.
32. Harvey Project — Founded in 1998, the Harvey Project is an international collaboration of educators, researchers, physicians, students, programmers, instructional designers and graphic artists working together to build interactive, dynamic human physiology course materials on the Web. The Harvey Project has developed over forty learning objects, mostly Java simulations and Flash(tm) animations.
33. iberry — iberry Alpha (beta) was the initial development stage of a content management system (CMS) allowing iberry.com to be upgraded with database functionality. iberry.com has no funding, no institutional support and is not-for-profit. The site offers a directory for OCW, forums, jobs list, and news.
34. IBM University Initiative — The IBM University Initiative helps faculty and researchers at higher education institutions worldwide use and implement the latest technology into curriculum and research. By joining, you will gain access to software, hardware, training, course materials, and other tools for academic research and collaboration.
35. ICT4D.ph — The general objective of this program is to examine past and current ICT projects for their transformational impacts on Philippine society; and to distill critical learning for ICT decision/policymaking, planning and programming. Students are also offered opportunities for internships, contests, and IT certification.
36. IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. — The IMS Global Learning Consortium develops and promotes the adoption of open technical specifications for interoperable learning technology. Several IMS specifications have become worldwide de facto standards for delivering learning products and services. IMS specifications and related publications are made available to the public from www.imsglobal.org.
37. infoDev — infoDev is a global partnership of international development agencies that focus on how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help to combat poverty and promote opportunity, empowerment and economic growth in developing countries. This partnership is coordinated and served by an expert Secretariat housed at the World Bank, one of infoDev's principal donors and founders. infoDev is developing an integrated curriculum of briefing sheets, handbooks, toolkits, case studies, best practice and lessons learned, and is sponsoring related training activities focusing on the appropriate use of ICTs in education
38. Isoph Institute — Isoph Institute offers high-quality online courses, affordable Web conferencing, and a variety of e-learning resources for associations, charitable organizations, and advocacy groups. They provide the ReadyGo Web Course Builder and the Articulate Presenter as two tools that allow individuals tocreate online presentations, briefings, tutorials, and courses.
39. Ithaka OOSS — Organization for Open Source Software Study Ithaka is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide. They help promising not-for-profit projects develop sustainable organizational and business models. They also work with established institutions that are rethinking the way they serve their core constituents.
40. ItrainOnline — ItrainOnline is a joint initiative of eight organizations with exceptional expertise in computer and Internet training in the South.Collaborative workspace tools such as wikis, blogs, and social bookmarking as well as increasing access to voice-over-internet protocol (VOIP) services offer organisations new options for online collaboration.
41. KEEP Toolkit — The KEEP Toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web. Collaborations
42. KM4Dev — KM for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches. International development is the specific, underlying context to their exploration of KM/KS issues and approaches as members regularly undertake specific projects linked to their own interests.
43. LAMS — LAMS is a tool for designing, managing and delivering online collaborative learning activities. It provides teachers with a highly intuitive visual authoring environment for creating sequences of learning activities. These activities can include a range of individual tasks, small group work and whole class activities based on both content and collaboration. Caters to English, Italian, and Spanish languages.
44. Learning Object Authoring Zone — Learn from others, read their development stories and share your experiences through Learning Object Authoring Templates (also referred as LearningTools, Learning Object Template). These templates provide an easy to use, web based, cheap (often free of cost) application that empowers non-technical subject matter experts to create interactive, multimedia based learning objects through step-by-step procedures and guidelines.
45. LeMill — Add and edit online content, join groups that are producing or editing learning content, and start a LeMill Web site.You can download LeMill engine, install it on your own server and put it online to become part of the global network of LeMill servers. Utilize this service in eight languages.
46. LogiCampus — LogiCampus allows a college, university, or school district to run existing classes or online learning classes via the web as well as provide the foundation for an institution to create additional integrated applications. LogiCampus provides the standard tools for faculty to create their online courses, process assignments, make tests and stay in contact with students.
47. LOLA Exchange — LOLA is also the home to a collection of Information Literacy Learning Objects that are being developed as part of a collaborative Information Literacy Project among Wesleyan, Trinity, and Connecticut Colleges. To facilitate this aspect of the project, LOLA allows for the creation of customized metadata schemes that allow the basic metadata schema to be extended to meet local needs.
48 .LRN Consortium — The .LRN Consortium is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit corporation focused on creating and supporting a freely available suite of web based educational applications to support learning communities. Their mission is to convene a global community of innovative people and organizations in educational technology to share knowledge and applications using open source principles.Membership in the Consortium is not required in order to use the .LRN software or to participate in the worldwide community dedicated to developing innovative educational software.
49. Math Forum — Drexel University offers a wealth of problems and puzzles; online mentoring; research; team problem solving; collaborations; and professional development.
50. MERLOT — MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Teaching online) maintains its currency through ongoing and continuing communication with its worldwide supporters in a variety of ways, including the annual MERLOT International Conference, the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT), member publications, and news. The Web site contains leading edge, user-centered, searchable collections of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
51. Moodle Course Management System — Moodle is a a free, Open Source software package course management system (CMS) designed using sound pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online learning communities.
52. Museum Learning Collaborative — The objective of the Museum Learning Collaborative is "to generate a research agenda — and in time, a body of research — sufficiently broad and powerful to guide the study of learning in informal contexts." The context pulls researchers and museums together to progress beyond a collection of studies of the particular factors that are important in individual places (e.g., visitor studies or evaluations of exhibits or galleries) toward a cumulative body of knowledge dealing with learning in the museum setting.
53. National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning — The main objective of the NPTEL program is to enhance quality of engineering education in India by developing curriculum based video and web courses. This project is coordinated by seven IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology), the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc Bangalore) among other institutions, and funded by the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development. You must register to access the site's contents.
54. NEEDS — NEEDS is a digital library with links to online learning materials in engineering and related areas of science and math. They currently partner with TeachEngineering in the development of the Engineering Pathway, a portal to a comprehensive collection of resources for all types of engineering education.They also offer the Premier Award annually for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware to recognize high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education.
55. OER Commons — OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors from pre-K to graduate school can access their colleagues' course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today's classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.
56. OLAT — OLAT (Online Learning And Training) is a web-based Learning Management System (LMS) / Learning Content Management System (LCMS) used in the public sector of Switzerland.
57. Open of Course — Open-Of-Course has a focus on multilingual educational information where people can benefit from in daily life. Open content courses and tutorials can be added through Moodle.
58. OpenACS — OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System) is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. OpenACS is the foundation for many products and websites, including the .LRN e-learning platform (see #48).
59. OpenCourse.org — OpenCourse.org hosts virtual communities that develop, evaluate, and use open, non-proprietary learning objects in their discipline. Collaboration among teachers, researchers and students is welcome with the common purpose of developing open, reusable learning assets (e.g. animations, simulations, models, case studies, etc.). Anyone with an interest in education, collaboration and sharing can join in.
60. OpenCourseWare Consortium — The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
61. Open Learning Initiative — The OLI project, initiated by Carnegie Mellon, offers modules based upon crucial elements of instructional design grounded in cognitive theory, formative evaluation for students and faculty, and iterative course improvement based on empirical evidence. Each module undergoes scrutiny by OLI researchers who conduct a variety of studies to examine the effectiveness and usability of various educational innovations. Some courses are open, others are accessible to students with access codes. These courses are disseminated at no cost to individual students and at low cost to institutions.
62. The Open University — The Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning. Through academic research, pedagogic innovation and collaborative partnership, the OU seeks to be a world leader in the design, content and delivery of supported open and distance learning. The latter development process is conducted through the OU's LabSpace, described as "the experimental zone for OpenLearn." LabSpace is designed as a community-led site, primarily for educators, providing a range of online tools to foster the concept of sharing and re-use of materials.
63. OSSLET — The Open Source Sharable Applet Collection allows students and others to utilize modules called "osslets" to bring the power of the open source movement from software development to curriculum development. The curriculum materials accompanying each osslet are written in generally available formats – for example, Microsoft Word – and users are encouraged to modify them. Each osslet also includes at least one interactive component that uses either Macromedia Shockwave or Macromedia Flash.
64. Plone — Plone is an out-of-the-box ready content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope Application server (see #80). It requires minimal effort to set up, is deeply flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities and intranets.
65. Qedoc — Qedoc's software is ideally suited to the creation of language learning quizzes, such as grammar and voabulary trainers. So far there are modules for Ancient and Modern Greek, Latin, Spanish, Dutch, Chichewa, Hebrew, Japanese, German and English as a Second Language. Some of the modules include audio-visual support for language learning.
66. Research Channel — In cooperation with the University of Washington, ResearchChannel is developing a laboratory as a testbed to facilitate collaborative investigations into cutting-edge technologies. Having dedicated engineering spaces and high-performance network facilities including 10Gigabit Ethernet allows ResearchChannel to more effectively carry out its work of developing, testing and demonstrating media streaming and networking innovations. Recent projects include multipoint low-latency high-definition videoconferencing and live, high-definition video from the seafloor.
67. Sakai — Sakai is an online collaboration and learning environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating Sakai are drawn from the "community" of organizations that have adopted and are using Sakai software.
68. Scholar's Box — One goal for the University of California at Berkeley project is to develop tools and environments in the Scholar's Box suite that enable university faculty, K-12 teachers, and all students and learners to gather, create and share digitized information.
69. Schooltool — SchoolTool is a Shuttleworth Foundation project designed to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence. Schooltool.org is the home for the SchoolTool community: users, administrators, developers, and others interested in the development of open source administrative applications for schools.
70. Smete Digital Library — More than a repository, this site offers collaboration with the SMETE Open Federation, where member collections and services will have free access to shared technology.
71. Sofia — The Sofia initiative was launched by Foothill-De Anza Community College District in March of 2004. The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning. Quality materials are identified and selected from the submissions through a peer review process. Materials are reviewed for quality, depth, instructional design, completeness, and use of interactivity and multimedia prior to publication.
72. SWIK — SWiK is a community driven resource for people who use open source software. Find free software or read and submit news and articles on software development and open source projects, tag projects to help organize the world of open source.
73. The Vega Science Trust — The Vega Science Trust aims to create a broadcast platform for the science, engineering and technology (SET) communities, so that they can communicate on all aspects of their fields of expertise using the exciting new TV and Internet opportunities. Vega also develops broadcasts for the Internet and are actively expanding their library of archive recordings.
74. VUE — The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project at Tufts UIT Academic Technology is focused on creating flexible tools for integrating digital resources into teaching and learning. VUE provides a visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design semantic networks of digital resources drawn from digital libraries, local and remote file systems and the Web. The resulting content maps can then be viewed and exchanged online.
75. WebJunction — WebJunction is a cooperative of library staff sharing and using online resources that enable us to identify and embrace appropriate technologies and apply them to our daily work.
76. WikiEducator — The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative planning of education projects linked with the development of free content and work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. The site also offers free eLearning content that anyone can edit and use.
77. Wikimatrix — Not only can you find, choose, compare, and talk about just about every Wiki source online, you can add your own Engine to the Matrix or share your knowledge about Wikis in WikiMatrix's Documentation Wiki.
78. Wikipedia — The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. The Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for the support and development of multilingual wiki projects in ten languages.
79. Wikiversity — Wikiversity is a community for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Wikiversity is a multidimensional social organization dedicated to learning, teaching, research and service. Available in Dutch, French, Spanish, and English.
80. Zope — Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications. Membership gives you your own home folder on Zope.org where you can create and manage your own Zope objects. The objects you create and maintain will be available to all people who visit Zope.org.
