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Details of sites providing open learning communities, tuition or other types of support for online users of Open Courseware (OCW).

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Open Learning Support

Utah State University's Open Learning Support: a free and open resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OLS supports USU's mission by engaging the public, cultivating diversity of thought and culture, and supporting learning.

Open Learning Initiative

Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative (OLI) grew from collaboration among cognitive scientists, experts in human computer interaction and faculty. The project adds to online education the crucial elements of instructional design grounded in cognitive theory, formative evaluation for students and faculty, and iterative course improvement based on empirical evidence. Some online instructional components are: cognitive tutors, virtual laboratories, group experiments, simulations

WikiEducator

WikiEducator is a community project working towards a free version of the education curriculum by 2015. Focus is on building capacity in the use of free software technologies for mass-collaboration in the authoring and development of free content for use in schools, polytechnics, universities, vocational education institutions and informal education settings, facilitating the establishment of community networks and collaboration with existing free content initiatives in education, fostering new technologies that will widen access, improve quality and reduce the cost associated with providing education.

Wikiversity

English wikiversity is a communal effort to learn and facilitate others' learning. Find information or ask questions about a subject, share your knowledge and build learning materials around that knowledge, find learning materials of all types to use yourself as self-study materials. If you want to meet other people who are interested in your subject join a learning community.

ccLearn

ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.

OpenLearn

OpenLearn offers a full range of the UK's Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level specializing in content and support designed for distance and elearning including self-assessment tools, collaboration forums and a personalised learner experience. OpenLearn uses a number of learning support and social networking tools to replicate the different informal modes of communication and learning that happen on a traditional campus facilitating the creation and support of elearning communities.

Peer 2 Peer University

Peer 2 Peer University is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work and pathways to formal credit are being built.

N.B. - in the process of setting up.

Connexions

Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: authors create and collaborate, instructors rapidly build and share custom collections, learners find and explore content

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