OER Case Studies

Started in 2002,Gleducaris a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status.[1]Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under aCC Attribution-ShareAlike license．

Started in 2012,Encipelis an educational community in which users of any gender and age, create documents to share their knowledge. These documents are then reviewed and improved by the community, offering a better quality of content. We use the license CC BY-NC 3.0.[2]．所以所有的信息都对每个人开放。我们决定使用这个许可证，因为我们希望人们增强知识和it的分布。从一开始，我们就改善了信息，网站的质量，为用户提供工具。这仍然是一个非常未知的项目，但我们希望它能发展得更多。

TheUniversity of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW)provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from itsTertiary Preparation Program．USQ is the only Australian member of theOpenCourseWare Consortium, anwallputihinternational collaborationof more than 230 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ All USQ OCW is available underCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike．

Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds firstUniversity Pressdedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under aCC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license．Athabasca University is also the base for theUNESCO OER Communitythat was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content underCC Attribution-ShareAlike．

The BCcampus initiative is a collaboration of 25 post-secondary institutions contributing and sharing open educational resources under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license or a BCcampus license for use within the system. It is an "online learning and educational technology service agency established and funded entirely by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development." BCcampus also manages anOpen Textbook Projectand recently gathered a group of librarians interested in furthering OER calledBCOER．

Cybertesisis a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors.

Edutekais a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default ofCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike．它由哥伦比亚的Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe基金会支持和运营，并曾两次被伊比利亚美洲教育技术网络授予国家教育技术奖。Eduteka还开展了试点项目，将OER纳入学校，以“[提高]学生和教师在信息通信技术方面的能力”，并“[改善]将这些技术纳入常规课程”。

TheEscuela Virtual del Deporte, or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available underCC Attribution-ShareAlike．

TheVirtual School for Latin America and the Caribbeanis an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed underCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlikeorCC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives．

TheRVP Metodicky Portalis an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed underCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlikeandCC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives．它是由捷克共和国和欧洲社会基金资助的一项政府倡议，是布拉格教育学院和国家职业教育学院的研究项目的一部分。该项目旨在“为教师在教学方法和教学、学习社区的发展以及更有效的学习方式方面提供系统的支持”。

Le Mill是一个“寻找、创作和分享”开放教育资源(OER)的在线社区。LeMill是由芬兰赫尔辛基艺术设计大学媒体实验室学习环境研究小组领导的LeMill团队开发的。截至2010年11月，Le Mill拥有来自63个国家的近15000名教师和83种语言的近24,000个学习资源。Le Mill resources are licensed underCC Attribution-ShareAlike．

Open Education Projectis a crowd sourced platform of free books and education tools that are made available online. It is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), India[3]．教育工作者可以免费下载和打印所有内容。The Project uses CC licenses, specifically [//www.familygiver.com/licenses/by/3.0/CC Attribution 3.0 Unported ] andCC Attribution-ShareAlike, to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. It especially aims to reach out to economically challenged children with education. There is already quite a large collection of books and educational materials in the project's database.

Pratham Booksis a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specificallyCC AttributionandCC Attribution-ShareAlike, to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at theirScribd channel．Pratham Books also has aFlickraccount where they publish pictures of their community underCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike．

Computer Masti (CM)is a series of books, activities, and interactive content forcomputereducationin primary schools in India. It is a research-based product created at the IIT Bombay in collaboration with InOPEN, a tech start-up that works with Free and Open Source (FOSS) technologies. The books are available online under aCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlikewith additional permissions for commercial use viaCC plus(more info to come in theirlegalsection). Site content is licensed underCC Attribution．

In the spirit of OpenCourseWare and the Khan Academy, OpenSecurityTraining.info is dedicated to sharing training material for computer security classes, on any topic, that are at least one day long. This site is always seeking new collaborators to broaden the available training, but already has training on assembly languages, reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploits, vulnerability assessment, trusted computing, android forensics, and other topics. Resources are licensed underCC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (unported)．

The groupoer at GitLabcollects OER under free and open licenses in a Git infrastructure. Most OER arereveal.jsHTML presentations generated from source documents in the lightweight markup languageOrg modewith the free/libre open source softwareemacs-reveal．轻量级标记语言的使用支持(a)使用Git机制协作维护OER， (b)内容与布局分离(可能根据不同的组织惯例)。In addition, emacs-reveal embeds license information for figures in machine-readable RDFa format (based onCC REL).

I-CLEENI-CLEEN is a collaborative project among teachers, willing to create a free database of resources (an information gateway) already tested in the classrooms, aiming to an interactive education of Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a web project by theScience Museum of Trento(原Tridentine自然科学博物馆)。The project won theeLearning award 2010．All the parts that make up the project and all their respective activities are fully dealt with using an open source web platform calledLifeRay专门为这个项目实施的。Resources are licensed underCC Attribution 3.0 (Italy)

Wikiwijsis an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform,Connexions, to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available underCC BY．

OER NZis a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with theNew Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework, which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be underCC Attributionor otherwise meet thefree cultural works definition．

Otago Polytechnicis a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt adefault CC Attribution policyand the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign theCape Town Open Education Declaration．

TheNorwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released underCC Attribution-ShareAlike．在短短几年内，该项目已经产生了大量的OER。

Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy isCC Attribution．The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools.

We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed underCC Attribution-ShareAlike．

Siyavula is working with local communities of teachers to incorporate and create educational materials under CC BY-SA.

OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY.

SNOW是一个开放的共享高等教育内容的知识平台。从人文、科学、设计到全球领导人的演讲，SNOW提供有关这些学术主题的韩语脚本和介绍，鼓励用户作为志愿者参与OER运动，通过翻译、分发和创造自己的资源。截止到2010年2月，SNOW收录了包括145个TED演讲在内的260个韩文讲座，其中95个由用户自行翻译。All SNOW content is available underCC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives．

高丽大学在2007年加入OCW财团后，于2009年首次推出了公开课件。高丽大学开放课程提供了技术、法律、教育等10个系的课程资料。高丽大学也在国内大学中开设公开课件(Korea open courseware)。包括高丽大学在内，庆熙大学、庆熙网络大学、釜庆大学、釜山大学、尚明大学、首尔工业大学、仁荷大学、东国大学等9所大学实施了公开课程政策。Korea University OCW is underCC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivativeswhile other universities, such asKyunghee University OCW, have implementedCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike．

Coding Everybody是非营利性编程教育项目;面向新手，普通人，甚至儿童和老人的开放教程，这个项目的开发者和创始人，egogo现在涵盖了web服务制作，各种编程语言，客户端服务器开发，开发工具包和其他编程知识。在这个博客和资源库中，用户可以通过go Lee自带的语音指南和截图以及其他多媒体资源访问编程知识的字典和资源库，对编程初学者来说非常容易和可观的教学。所有课程都是免费开放的;教程涵盖了许多编程部分，并且由Going Lee不断更新，并与他的用户进行了积极开放的对话。Courses and video clips of Coding Everybody are underCC Attribution

Learning Playgroundis non-progit, learning innovation project founded by Sung-Keun Lee, elementary school teacher, project lead. Learning Playground is the outbreak learning and study habit innovation project by in-office elementary school teachers, providing students to grow one’s own learning habit without private academy. Teachers make video clips on current elementary school’s curriculum with their own effort as volunteerism. Now 2,500 more video clips and DIY OER contents created by not only teachers but also students are uploaded on this repository for everyone who want to learn without high price private academy. On March 2015, now Learning Playground has 2 million users and 10 million hits so far.

TESSA is a research and development project that works to create open educational resources (OER) and course design guidance for educators across Sub-Saharan Africa under CC BY-SA.

OpenLearnis an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials underCC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike．

Washington State’sOpen Course Libraryis a large scale effort to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Faculty from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges are working together to design 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery. The goal of the Open Course Library is to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for the SBCTC system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle of our college system'sStrategic Technology Planto “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”