Open Learning Network

The OER Course Collaboratory is an international collaboration among individuals and education institutions to create, reuse, revise and remix OERs specifically for courses on open education which you can teach at your own institution without restrictions. Our aim is to widen access to knowledge and capacity building in the open education field. 

The OER Course Collaboratory is a resource sharing initiative without institutional barriers. We encourage all formal education institutions to consider teaching and accrediting courses on OER within existing programmes and where appropriate implementing new electives.

We've just commenced planning (http://wikieducator.org/OER_Course_Collaboratory/Planning ) and need your help with three things:

1) Identifying project participants
If you are interested in your personal and/or institutional capacity, please sign up as a OER Collaboratory participant here:
http://wikieducator.org/OER_Course_Collaboratory/Participants

2) Compiling an inventory of existing courses and materials which could be reused, revised and/or remixed (Note these must be licensed under an open content license.) :
http://wikieducator.org/OER_Course_Collaboratory/Existing_resources

3) Brainstorming a sylabus outline -- That is, in your view, what should the course outline / syllabi of a postgraduate elective for an OER course(s) cover?
http://wikieducator.org/OER_Course_Collaboratory/Course_syllabi

The OER Foundation believes that working together we can achieve more than working alone -- so let's make these futures happen for open education.

Information from email from Wayne Mackintosh Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.