Collaboration across disciplines and even institutions to create OER can support partnerships, scaffold knowledge exchange, provide cost savings, and improve the quality of teaching materials.
OER and Collaborative Content Development
This report from INACOL describes the benefits of OER, provides a framework for planning, and offers strategies for successfully collaborating on OER development.
“Creating, Licensing and Publishing OER”by SUNY OER Services, CC BY: 4.0
Join the Open Community
What is it?
The Creative Commons Open Education Platform is a space for open education advocates and practitioners to identify, plan and coordinate multi-national open education content, practices and policy activities to foster better sharing of knowledge.
This platform is open to all interested people working in open education, in a transparent, professional, ethical and public manner on the following goals:
1. Build and Sustain Community
2. Increase Educational Access and Equity
3. Use Policy to Open Education Opportunities for All
Who They Are
A group of around 1,000 members from 90+ countries. Most members are open education advocates, working in open education. Anyone interested in open education is welcome to join.
Their Work
- Goal driven open-educational
- Sharing opportunities and updates via our email listserv and Slack channel.
- Learning opportunities: join the Open Education Lightning Talks.
- Networking opportunities in our platform meetings.
Why Join?
- Stay connected to global actions in open education resources, practice, and policy.
- Identify, plan and coordinate multi-national open education content, practices and policy projects to collaboratively solve education challenges with an amazing group of open education leaders from around the world.
- Contribute to global perspectives on open education to strengthen advocacy worldwide.
- Connect your country / region to global open education initiatives.
- Be on the forefront in implementing Creative Commons’ global network strategy.
- Meet at the Creative Commons Summit with members of the CC Open Education Platform to celebrate successes, share best practices, and plan for the next year.
- Explore, practice, and share innovative methods for inclusive and open engagement with educators, learners and governments around the world.
Ways to Join
(“CC Open Education Platform” by Creative Commons, CC BY 4.0)
