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• Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007) - unlocking the promise of open educational resources: Read, Sign, View Signatures, Translations, FAQ, Press. Related Initiatives, Comments
• Center for Applied Further Education Research (DE) - 'Open Educational Resources – anonymity vs. specificity', Cost models, Open networks, Communication/publication, Individual motivation, Let it flow
• Cloudworks (UK) - share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences: events, popular, cloudstreams, active clouds
• Commonwealth of Learning (COL) - intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth heads of govt. to encourage development & sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources & technologies, helping developing nations improve access to quality education & training: news, programmes & services, resources, blog
• Creative Commons (US), OER - educational institutions, teachers, learners actively participate in global exchange of knowledge: What is OER?, Finding OER, Creative Commons & OER, Education Project Database, Contribute
• Digital Scholarship (US) - Open Access Publishing, Digital/Print Books, Digital Bibliographies, Weblogs, Other Works
• Foothill-De Anza Community College District, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) (US) - primary goal to identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty: Information, Featured Sites, Resources
• FunnyMonkey (US) - dedicated to creating a world in which quality educational tools, processes, and instructional materials are freely available.
• Hewlett Foundation(US) - Education Program continues to work toward establishing a self-sustaining and adaptive global OER ecosystem and demonstrating its potential to improve teaching and learning
• International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning - Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education: OpenCourseWare, distance education, access, new technologies
• Merlot (US) - free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services
• MIT Press (US), Opening Up Education - essays by leaders in open education, collective advancement of education through open technology, open content and open knowledge
• Monterey 2009, OER Meeting (US - Descriptions of OER projects around the world
• North Carolina University (US) - repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities: collections
• Nottinham University (UK), Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) - directory of academic open access repositories, does not rely on automated analysis, gives quality-controlled list: Search, List, Statistics, tools, FAQ
• OER Blogs (US) - attempting to unite the world of Open Educational Resources: OER, OCW, Open Access Movement, Intellectual Property
• OER Commons - Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the World: Open Textbooks, Career and Technical Education, Classroom Management, Science as Inquiry, Art as Inquiry, Leadership in Education, Create OER
• Online Education Database (OEDb) (US), Top 100 Open Courseware Projects - Agriculture, Arts, Architecture, Archaeology, Audio & Video, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Economics, Electronic Engineering, General Engineering, Earth Sciences, Geography, Geology, History, Languages & Linguistics, Law, Literature, Mechanical Engineering, Paleontology, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Sciences
• Open Access Directory (OAD) - wiki where the open access (OA) community can create and support simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship: OA directory, community portal, events
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) (US) - develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content: Community, Specifications, Projects
• Open Content Alliance (OCA) - collaborative effort of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations building permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material, encourages access to and reuse of collections: FAQ, participate, press
• Open Knowledge Foundation (UK), Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age - not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms, activities organized around individual working groups and projects, united by a common set of concerns: blog, projects, events
• Open Learning Content Observatory Services (OLCOS) project - aims at building an (online) information and observation centre for promoting the concept, production and usage of OER, in particular, open digital educational content (ODEC) in Europe
• Open University (UK), Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) - supports individuals, projects, institutions and programmes across HE sector in England, creating, sharing & using OER: latest, fellowships, resources, about OER
• Open World Learning Institute (OWL), Open Educational Resources - finds and creates new ways of learning and teaching, delivers world of free and open educational resources: news, portal, center, services
• OpenContent (US) - evangelizing idea of opening access to educational resources: blog, definition, game, ocwfinder, opl, wiki, ertg
• OpenCourseWare Consortium - worldwide community of hundreds of universities and associated organizations committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education: courses, community, members
• RECAP Limited (UK), Podcast Directory for Educators, Schools and Colleges - freely access variety of educational content from over 5000 podcasts from different podcast channels, including range of audio, enhanced and video channels, to support effective teaching and learning
• Seneca College (CA), Learning Objects Portal - gateway to resources about learning objects and repositories: Information, Resources, Repositories, Tools, Best Practices, Issues, Activities, Who's Who
• UNESCO OER Community - wiki where members can work together on questions, issues and documents: Access to OER, OER Toolkit, Findings from OECD study, FOSS solutions for OER, links, resources, glossary
• Wikibooks, Collection of Open-Content Textbooks - project for collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone can edit: Cookbook, Wikijunior, Featured Books, Recent changes, Random book, Bulletin Board, Community portal, Toolbox, in other languages
• WikiEducator, Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Repositories - Portals & Gateways, Institutional repositories, Subject portals/collections (General, Science, Social Sciences, Humanities), Stand alone digital media resources, Community developed content

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