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 (OER) 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 (2007)
- UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration[1]
- 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
- Personal Growth
- Professional Development
- Formal Instructional Design
Tools
Access and delivery
- Open access
- OpenCourseWare
- Distance learning
- Virtual learning environment
- Open format
Learning
- Open educational resources (OER)
- Recursos educativos abiertos (OER in Spanish)
- 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 Guidelines on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education
- 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources
References
- ^ "UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration" (PDF). Retrieved 8 April 2014.