Open Educational Resources: Open Pedagogy

Open Pedagogy Notebook is an online community designed to share practices and examples of open pedagogy.

An OER Anthology of Earlier American Literature, to 1899, Edited by Robin DeRosa; created by undergraduate students of Plymouth State University.

This site hosts the assignments that participants in the open online digital storytelling course, ds106, complete as part of their work in the course. Rather than specifying assignments everyone must do, participants can choose from an array of ones included on this site- all of them have been created by course participants. Each assignment has a rated difficulty of 1 to 5 stars (participants can vote), so for a particular topic, the task might be to complete 10 stars worth of say, Design Assignments.

CommentPress is an open-source WordPress theme and plugin for “social texts in social contexts”: it allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph, line-by-line, or bloc-by-block in the margins of a text.

Genius lets you add line-by-line annotations to any page on the Internet. Once you have activated Genius on a page, just highlight a line of text, click the pop-up Genius button, and say something that adds value to the page. Annotated webpages can be shared with everyone.

Hypothes.is an open platform for discussion on the web. It leverages annotation to enable sentence-level critique or note-taking on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and more.

SocialBook is a new publishing platform based on the idea that "a book is a place" where readers can congregate. We've made it very easy to annotate a text and to follow a conversation in the margins.

Teams and Organizations can setup accounts using subdomains for free or optionally purchase domain registrations. Provides easy access to install over 100 open source applications with ease directly in the control panel. From Reclaim Hosting, which provides hosting support for individuals and institutions that want to build out spaces online for personal portfolios, digital projects, and more.

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University.

Pressbooks is easy-to-use book writing software that lets you create a book in all the formats you need to publish. Pressbooks delivers print-ready files for CreateSpace, IngramSpark and Lightning Source, as well as ebook files optimized to look great in all ebook stores: Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Nook, Kobo, Google Play and more.

PubPub is a free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals

The Wiki Education Foundation connects higher education to the publishing power of Wikipedia. Bridging Wikipedia and academia creates opportunities for any learner to contribute to, and access, open knowledge. Wiki Ed supports the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada. Since 2010, university instructors participating in the program have assigned their students to add content to course-related articles on Wikipedia. Students gain key 21st century skills like media literacy, writing and research development, and critical thinking, while content gaps on Wikipedia get filled thanks to students’ efforts.

Described as a simple web tool for storytelling. Free and paid versions available. The goal is to enable creative individuals and organizations to produce beautiful and shareable stories, attract new audiences, and build business around their work—without knowing a line of code.

You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready. Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.

David Wiley's blog

The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to access high-quality education. This shift in educational practice is not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed content; it’s about participation and co-creation. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.

Stand-alone course offered through P2PU that explores the history and impacts of openness in education. The main goal of the course is to provide a broad but shallow grounding in the primary areas of work in the field of open education. Course designed and developed by David Wiley.