Open Education

Open Education is a key issue for SPARC - includes lots of resources and information about open education initiatives.

A global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials. Arizona State University became a member of the OEC in 2016.

The Open Education program at Creative Commons works to minimize barriers, supporting the CC mission through education, advocacy and outreach on using the right licenses and open policies to maximize the benefits of open educational resources (OER) and the return on investment in publicly funded education resources.

The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.

The Open Education Working Group is an international community of educators, researchers, students, policy makers and advocates that promotes, fosters, supports and collaborates with projects and initiatives related to the advancement of Open Education in different fields.

The tool has been created specifically for college and university governance officials, as well as individuals who have responsibility for developing institutional policy, to promote the utilization of OER and scale efforts to full OER programs.

The Rebus Foundation builds new models and technology for open book publishing and reading on the web, to encourage deeper engagement, and to enable people (and machines) to use and build on books and reading in new and meaningful ways.

Our grantmaking supports mainstream adoption and effective use of openly licensed educational resources that provide students around the world greater access to a world class education.

A growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources.

The Affordable College Textbook Act seeks to proliferate the most successful open textbook efforts to date: local programs at colleges and universities that provide support for creating and adopting open textbooks and other OERs. The bill was introduced in the 114th Congress as S. 2176/H.R. 3721 and did not advance.

The curriculum and other learning materials developed by TAACCCT grantees are being made widely available to all types of training providers on SkillsCommons.org

The OERizona Network is a professional learning community committed to providing learners across Arizona (and beyond) unimpeded and equitable access to high-quality learning materials through the promotion of open educational practices.

The Hub functions are a shared repository for Arizona educators to share and access resources and is funded by the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) through the U.S. Department of Education.

The Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona initiative is a grant project funded by the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) through the U.S. Department of Education. Led by Yavapai College, a consortium of eight Arizona rural community colleges, was formed to increase student cost savings through access to Open Educational Resources (OER). The consortium serves 44,659 students in 12 Arizona counties (83% of Arizona geographically).

Open Maricopa, formerly known as Maricopa Millions, has saved students over $36 million in textbook costs over the past 10 years. Maricopa Millions started in 2013 with a goal of saving students $5 million in 5 years, and we met that goal within the first 2 and a half years of the program’s launch.

This page is updated weekly, and tracks the latest state-by-state policy activity relevant to the SPARC community, along with policies enacted in past years. SPARC’s state policy tracking is done in conjunction with Foresight Law + Policy, and a full dataset of legislation tracked since 2015 is published in GitHub.

This website is dedicated to providing easy pathways for Washington State Community and Technical College faculty to learn, find, use and apply OER, though it is applicable to all faculty.

The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.

The OER Digest is a bi-weekly newsletter for open education updates, opportunities, and reminders. The primary audience is the OER community in the United States and Canada, although subscribers come from all around the world. New editions are published every other Thursday.

We are a global community of volunteers providing free online courses, face-to-face workshops, and innovative training programs on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age. Learn how to add a Creative Commons license to your work, find free resources for classroom use, open up your research, remix a music video, and more!

This playbook from Lumen Learning equips you with great plays, strategies, and tools to help you achieve a significant impact on teaching and learning using open educational resources (OER).

This book is intended as a guide writ large for would-be champions of OER, that anyone might serve as guides themselves. The book includes the experience of practitioners who represent a meaningful cross section of higher education institutions in North America. It is our hope that the examples and discussions presented by our authors will facilitate connections among practitioners, foster the development of best practices for OER adoption and creation, and more importantly, lay a foundation for novel, educational excellence.

This resource provides examples of how institutions, companies, organizations and state governments across North America are working to expand the use, creation and improvement of Open Educational Resources. The list is not comprehensive but seeks to showcase successful projects, diverse approaches, and library involvement.

The OER World Map collects and visualizes data on the growing number of actors and activities in the field of open education worldwide.

What libraries are doing - an ARL SPEC Kit which explores the degree to which ARL member institutions advocate, support, and develop affordable course content and open educational resources.