Outline of open educational resources

This outline of open educational resources provides a way of navigating concepts and topics in relation to the open educational resources (OER) movement.

Concepts of open

 * Gratis vs. libre
 * Free cultural work and Free content
 * Open content
 * Openness
 * Digital freedom
 * Libre knowledge
 * Open knowledge

Relationship to other educational concepts

 * Open education
 * Adult Education
 * Self-directed Learning
 * Prior Learning Assessment (PLA/PLAR)
 * Distance Education
 * Online Education

Goals and aims

 * The Cape Town Open Education Declaration (2007)
 * UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration
 * 2009 Dakar Declaration on Open Educational Resources
 * Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

How to design learning using OER

 * Personal Growth
 * Professional Development
 * Formal Instructional Design

Access and delivery

 * Open access
 * OpenCourseWare
 * Distance learning
 * Virtual learning environment
 * Open format

Learning

 * Open educational resources (OER)
 * Recursos educativos abiertos (OER in Spanish)
 * OER Commons
 * Connexions
 * Open textbooks
 * Open content
 * MIT OpenCourseWare
 * Open access journals
 * Learning objects

Licensing

 * Creative Commons license
 * Open Content License
 * GNU Free Documentation License
 * Copyleft

Methods/Philosophy

 * Open learning
 * Open educational practices
 * Connectivism
 * Heutagogy
 * Open supported learning
 * Flexible learning
 * E-learning theory

Types of learning experiences

 * MOOCs
 * Personal learning environments
 * Networked learning
 * Blended learning
 * Virtual learning environment
 * Purpose-centered learning

Programs and initiatives

 * Athabasca University in Canada
 * OER initiatives
 * Open university
 * OER Foundation
 * OER Universitas
 * OER Africa
 * Khan Academy
 * Open University in the United Kingdom
 * The Saylor Foundation
 * Wikibooks
 * Wikiversity
 * WikiEducator
 * Open.Michigan
 * Commonwealth of Learning
 * Open Learning for Development

Governance, policies and standards

 * Open educational resources policy
 * Open-door academic policy
 * United Kingdom Accreditation Service
 * 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO Guidelines on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education
 * 2011 Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources