User:Roger/Grapevine

OER Grapevine's mission is to promote discussion and cooperation among projects relating to open educational resources (OER).

The site was created on November 22, 2006 by Rob Lucas. OER Grapevine is intended to be neutral ground, and Rob is happy to bring on other administrators.

The site includes an email list and this wiki. This wiki will be used to keep a list and short descriptions of OER projects.

Email list
Talk@OERGrapevine.org discusses, among other things:
 * announce new projects
 * coordinate efforts among projects
 * identify unfilled niches and help existing projects differentiate (when possible) to bring many different types of educators into the fold
 * discuss common challenges

OER projects
Click edit at right to add a project. Welcome!

Click more... to write more about a project -- maybe it's Web strategy, technology development, lessons learned, OER Grapevine members involved, links to relevant blogs, etc.

BSSD OpenContent Project
http://wiki.bssd.org more...
 * License: cc by-nc-sa
 * Founded: October, 2005
 * Location: Unalakleet, Alaska
 * Content Type(s): Standards-based curriculum K-12, resources, texts, multimedia
 * Subjects: Career skills, cultural awareness, math, life skills, reading, science, social studies, technology, writing
 * Activity: 1,350 pages and growing

California Open Source Textbook Project
http://opensourcetext.org
 * License: per item, encourages Creative Commons
 * Founded 2001
 * Location: Palo Alto, CA

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Capital Market Wiki
http://www.capital-market-wiki.org/wiki/ more...
 * Goal: To create a free encyclopedia of world capital markets, based on open source financial research. Has templates for university level classroom projects, with formats based on Capital Market Taxonomy. Includes a job opportunity network for students on graduation.
 * License: GNU Free Documentation License (mostly); but supports a copyrighted research namespace.
 * Founded: 2006 (open to public, March 2009)
 * Location: Naples, FL

Cardionetworks
http://www.cardionetworks.org more...
 * License: cc by-nc-sa
 * Founded: 2007
 * Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 * First project: http://www.ecgpedia.org, an online electrocardiography (ECG) course

ccLearn
http://learn.creativecommons.org more...
 * License: cc by
 * Founded: 2007
 * Location: San Francisco, California (U.S.)

CK-12
http://ck-12.com/flexr/ more...
 * License: cc by nc sa, maybe someday also cc by sa?
 * Founded: 2007?
 * Location: Silicon Valley, USA

Community College Consortium for OER
http://oerconsortium.org more...
 * License: cc by
 * Content: blog, not an OER repository
 * Founded: July 2007
 * Location: USA

Community College Open Textbook Project
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org more...
 * License: Creative Commons License by Attribution
 * Founded: April 2008
 * Location: USA

Connexions
http://cnx.org more...
 * License: cc by
 * Plone based

Curriki
http://curriki.org more...
 * Launched: November 2006
 * Founded: 2004
 * License: Curriki supports all CC AT 3.0 licenses, pick from the least (AT) to most restrictive (AT ND NC).

Edplum
http://edplum.org more...
 * Currently under development
 * Goal: to let teachers share "plums" (a word we coined to refer to tips, tidbits or small resources) and build them up into larger teaching units as part of an interactive community
 * License: cc by-sa or something very similar
 * Subjects: All

Free High School Science Texts
http://www.fhsst.org more...
 * Location: South Africa to start, open to expansion if coordinators in other countries volunteer
 * Goal: Write and print royalty free textbooks to reduce costs (more than factor 10 possible)
 * License: GFDL
 * Current Subjects: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
 * Planned Subjects: Geography, Biology, Computer Literacy

Global Text Project
http://globaltext.org
 * Location: University of Georgia and University of Denver
 * Goal: Publish electronic textbooks for university students in developing economies
 * License: Creative Commons License by Attribution

Internet Archive: Education
http://www.archive.org/details/education more...
 * License: per item
 * Launched: November 2005? (beta)

K12 Open Ed Kids Open Dictionary
http://dictionary.k12opened.com
 * Goal: To build a simple, open dictionary for kids and other learners. As words are completed, they will be reviewed for quality and appropriateness and ultimately "frozen" for export into a variety of formats, including text, PDF, ebooks, wikis, web, etc., for use on a variety of devices and platforms by anyone for any purpose.
 * License: public domain
 * Founded: June, 2008
 * Location: California, US
 * Content Type(s): Words and definitions, exportable to various formats

LearnScope
http://nswlearnscope.com/wiki/ more...
 * Launched 2007
 * License: cc by-sa
 * Subjects: Elearning, Web 2.0

LeMill
http://lemill.net more...
 * Goal: to find, author and share open and free learning resources
 * Content license: cc by-sa
 * Plone based

Marco Polo
http://www.marcopolo-education.org
 * . . . ReadWriteThink http://www.readwritethink.org (non-commercial use only)
 * . . . Xpeditions http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions (non-commercial use only)
 * . . . ArtsEdge http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org (non-commercial use only)
 * . . . EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov (non-commercial use only)

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 * License: non-commercial use only

MIT Open Course Ware
http://ocw.mit.edu more...
 * Launched 1999
 * License: cc by-nc-sa

OpenCourse
http://opencourse.org more...
 * A free collaboration platform for creating and sharing open courseware. Aimed at faculty, students and other professionals, OpenCourse.org makes it easy (<15 min) to set up a discipline-specific "collaboratory" to build learning materials.  It is like SourceForge (TM) for communities of open courseware developers.
 * Plone site
 * Founder: Robert Stephenson

OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org more...
 * Location: Based in US, international use
 * Goal: to provide a centralized framework for the use and reuse of OER, through the gathering of metadata and pointers to OER worldwide, and to build a knowledge base of use through tagging, rating, reviewing, recommending, and annotating OER.
 * License: encourages Creative Commons use or alternative
 * Subjects: All (includes K-12, higher ed, and training)

OpenLearn
http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn more...
 * License: cc by-nc-sa

OER Repository New Zealand
http://oer.repository.ac.nz/ more...
 * Location: Based in New Zealand
 * Subjects:
 * ICT	2
 * NZIM Certificate in Management
 * Building and construction
 * License: cc by-sa (see)

Open-Of-Course
http://www.open-of-course.org more...
 * Location: Netherlands
 * Goal: to establish an international, self-supporting and multilingual community for open content educational material for adults. The focus is on practical information that people can benefit from in daily life.
 * License: divers, but all open content
 * Subjects: operating systems, computer applications, languages, webdesign, business

Open Planner
http://www.openplanner.org more...
 * Location: New York, NY
 * Goal: To provide a space for teachers to join curriculum teams and collaboratively build cohesive original curriculum: lessons couched in units couched in year-long course plans, with a focus on discussing pedagogy. We also hope to partner with existing PD communities, giving teachers a place to continue their discussion/collaboration once the in-person PD is over.
 * License: cc by-nc-sa
 * Subjects: all

OWL Institute
http://www.owli.org
 * Launched: 2002
 * Location: Based in Duluth, Minnesota with international membership
 * Goal: Research, develop and distribute OER; collaborative course and curriculum development and distribution.
 * License: cc
 * OWL Portal (Moodle portal, in beta release) (non-commercial use only)
 * OER Portal (Drupal portal) (non-commercial use only)

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 * Subjects: PreK to Post-secondary. For teachers, homeschoolers, and OER enthusiasts.

Qedoc
http://www.qedoc.org more...
 * Launched: March 2006; moved learning object repository to current site in February 2007.
 * Description: caters for interactive learning objects ("quizzes") with pedagogical depth.
 * Subjects: all.
 * Educational levels: primary, secondary, post-secondary.
 * Licences: educators can choose between CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-SA.

SOCKS
http://socks.tsf.org.za more...
 * Location: South Africa
 * Goal: to share free content, teacher support materials and knowledge relating to the South African school curriculum.
 * License: CC BY-SA
 * Subjects: Natural sciences, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Mathematics.

Sofia
http://sofia.fhda.edu/ more...
 * Goal: to promotes faculty and institutional sharing of online content
 * License: CC BY NC
 * Subjects: various

Siyavula
http://www.siyavula.org.za
 * Goal: create collaboratively developed and maintained open educational resources that comprehensively cover the South African curriculum
 * License: CC-BY
 * Subjects: R-12 (K-12)

Tapped In
http://tappedin.org

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Teachers Without Borders
Teachers Without Borders


 * Launched: 2000
 * Goal: Teachers Without Borders supports teacher leaders, worldwide, with professional development opportunities and tools that connect them with information and each other so that they may play a more vital role in their communities. We focus on teachers with initiative, who are passionate about their subjects and compassionate towards children.
 * Our flagship program, The Certificate of Teaching Mastery (CTM), is a free, self-paced, peer- and mentor-supported teacher professional development program. It consists of five courses designed to help teachers improve their professional knowledge, classroom practice, and to become mentors and leaders both in their communities and globally through the online Teachers Without Borders social network and international initiatives. This self-driven and mentor-supervised program leads to a certificate and an e-Portfolio, allowing graduates to further their career goals and contribute their skills and expertise to global projects managed by Teachers Without Borders.
 * License: Creative Commons 3.0
 * Subjects: All, Teacher Education, Teacher Professional Development

twidox
http://www.twidox.com more...
 * Launched: November 2008
 * Goal: To create a free, user generated online library of ‘quality’ documents that allows individuals and organisations to easily publish, share and search for them. Documents on twidox are accessible to everyone online and will allow people to share their knowledge and help others with their work, learning, teaching and research.
 * License: Creative Commons
 * Subjects: All

We The Teachers
http://www.wetheteachers.com more...
 * Launched: May 2006
 * Goal: To create a social website that allows seamless interaction and resource sharing between teachers. Also, to provide tools that "corporate-minded" websites/teachers have been charging money for...but for free!
 * License: none, controlled by submitting teachers
 * Subjects: All (prek-12)

Wikibooks
http://www.wikibooks.org more...
 * Launched July 10, 2003
 * Goal: To create a free collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit
 * License: GNU Free Documentation License
 * Subjects: All

WikiEducator
http://wikieducator.org more...
 * Launched: Officially May 2006
 * Goal: Turning the digital divide into digital dividends through free content and open networks.
 * Strategic Vision: To contribute to the development of a free version of the entire education curriculum by 2015
 * License: cc by-sa
 * Subjects: All subjects
 * Institution: Open Education Resources Foundation, Dunedin, New Zealand - previously Commonwealth of Learning
 * Brochure: For more information, download ....coming soon

Wikigogy
http://wikigogy.org more...
 * Launched: March 2006. Closed 2010. Currently recommending English teachers try http://TEFLpedia.com
 * Goal: to help teachers of English as a second or foreign languages worldwide collaborate on lesson plans and best practice simply and effectively
 * License: cc by-sa
 * Subjects: English as a foreign or second language (EFL, ESL)

WikiJET
http://www.wikijet.org more...
 * Currently hosted at Wikia http://wiki.wikia.com
 * Launched: November 2006
 * Goal: to share English teaching materials between participants of the JET Programme
 * License: GFDL
 * Subjects: TEFL materials suited for use by JET Programme participants, local information on Japanese towns and cities, information on JET events and the JET Programme itself.

Wikilectures
http://www.wikilectures.eu more...
 * License: cc-by 3.0 Czech Republic
 * Founded: November, 2008
 * Location: Prague, Czech Republic
 * Content Type(s): lectures
 * Subjects: medicine and related studies
 * Activity: 72 pages and growing
 * Languages: en, cs (wikiskripta.eu)

Wikiskripta
http://www.wikiskripta.eu more...
 * License: cc-by 3.0 Czech Republic
 * Founded: April, 2008
 * Location: Prague, Czech Republic
 * Content Type(s): lectures
 * Subjects: medicine and related studies
 * Activity: 2.250 pages and growing
 * Languages: cs, en (wikilectures.eu)

WikiTeach
http://www.wikiteach.org more...
 * License: "share-alike full copyleft license"

Wikiversity
http://www.wikiversity.org (multilingual portal). . . http://en.wikiversity.org/ (English Wikiversity) more...
 * Beta launched: August 15, 2006
 * Goal: Developing educational resources for all learner levels, and to foster active learning communities. (See Wikiversity:Welcome)
 * Subjects: All subjects (or, at least, not confined to a particular discipline or curriculum)
 * License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Wolne Podreczniki
http://www.wolnepodreczniki.pl more...
 * Beta Launched: April 2007
 * Goal: Create full set of textbooks for Polish primary and secondary schools
 * License: GFDL
 * Subjects: All subjects

Academic Library
http://acalib.org/ more...
 * Beta Launched: January 2010
 * Goal: Share Open Educational Resources with Chinese students and to the world
 * License: CC
 * Subjects: All subjects

All rights reserved projects
In contrast to above OER copyleft model, the following projects use the copyright all rights reserved commercial pay to use model. These are listed here because following their progress may be instructive. Some of the sites that give away lessons free but with all rights reserved have amassed lots of presumably volunteer written and submitted lessons.
 * Teachers Pay Teachers http://teacherspayteachers.com (micro payment)
 * Lesson Planet http://www.lessonplanet.com ($24.95/year, 7day money back guarantee "free trial")
 * TEFL Magic http://tefl-magic.com (free)
 * Internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org (free)
 * Dave's ESL Cafe Cookbook http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/index.html (free)

All rights reserved vs Copyleft
Unfortunately giving free lesson plans all rights reserved delivers a dead lesson instead of a living one. That is why copyleft is better; a copyleft lesson can be improved and republished freely, it's alive.