iBerry The Academic Porthole* "Everyone has the right to education." - Article 26: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10th December 1948
"Higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education." - Article 13: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, 16th December 1966
| About iBerryiBerry provides information and resources for learners, educators, researchers and anyone else with an interest in adult education.
The focus is on connection rather than content - we see iBerry as one small part of an emerging and Open Global Education Network that one day will bring inexpensive education to any adult, anywhere in the world, regardless of their circumstances. * Porthole ? ... No, not a spelling error - it's a small but cheerful window in the side of the Higher Education ship - for
purposes of illumination and enlightenment ! Open Education DirectoryThe Open Education Directory lists publicly-available educational resources including Open Courseware (OCW) - lecture notes, videos, slides, podcasts, exam questions, software, demonstrations, images etc - selected from the universities and colleges of the world.
Only OCW covering academic topics in reasonable depth is included in the directory. OCW items are described by a combination of tags according to Subject, Media Type, and academic Level so that users can customize their searches. News AggregatorThe News Aggregator brings together numerous RSS feeds on Education topics.
News from a variety of sources is grouped in 4 categories. The content can be viewed by anyone but logged in users can also display their preferred categories as blocks of headlines. Support for Online LearnersSupport for online learners is extending beyond currently-available Open Courseware to other parts of the educational process.
Open Courseware (OCW) does not usually come with other desirable parts of the educational process such as expert tuition, interaction among learners or assessment and creditation. iBerry is helping to fill the gap between currently-available OCW and its effective use by online learners. Community
Users are free to login and contact others with similar interests. iBerry relies on the goodwill of its users and anyone else who cares to help - please contact us with your ideas and suggestions !
Most of iBerry's facilities are freely available to anyone but logged in users also have access to the profiles of other registered users. If you are interested in a particular topic it can be rewarding to contact others with similar interests or perhaps from the same country as yourself. Other users can easily be contacted and without revealing private email addresses.
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