Open education
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Not to be confused with Open educational resources
Open educational resources
Open educational resources are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available for free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone...



Open education is a collective term that refers to educational organizations that seek to eliminate barriers to entry
Barriers to entry
In theories of competition in economics, barriers to entry are obstacles that make it difficult to enter a given market. The term can refer to hindrances a firm faces in trying to enter a market or industry - such as government regulation, or a large, established firm taking advantage of economies...

. Such institutions, for example, would not have academic admission requirements. Such universities include Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...

 in Britain and Athabasca University
Athabasca University
Athabasca University is a Canadian university in Athabasca, Alberta. It is an accredited research institution which also offers distance education courses and programs. Courses are offered primarily in English with some French offerings. Each year, 32,000 students attend the university. It offers...

 in Canada. Such programs are commonly distance learning programs, but not necessarily.

See also

  • Cape Town Open Education Declaration
    Cape Town Open Education Declaration
    The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is a major international statement on open access, open education and open educational resources. It emerged from a conference on open education hosted in Cape Town on 14 and 15 September 2007 by the Shuttleworth Foundation and the Open Society Institute...

  • Free education
    Free education
    Free education refers to education that is funded through taxation, or charitable organizations rather than tuition fees. Although primary school and other comprehensive or compulsory education is free in many countries, for example, all education is mostly free including...

  • Open educational resources
    Open educational resources
    Open educational resources are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available for free through open licenses, which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone...

  • Open source curriculum
    Open source curriculum
    An open source curriculum is an online instructional resource that can be freely used, distributed and modified. OSC is based on the open source practice of creating products or software that opens up access to source materials or codes...

  • Openness
    Openness
    Openness is the quality of being open. It sometimes refers to a very general philosophical position from which some individuals and organizations operate, often highlighted by a decision-making process recognizing communal management by distributed stakeholders rather than a centralized authority...

  • Open textbook
    Open textbook
    An open textbook is an openly-licensed textbook offered online by its author or through a non-profit or commercial open-licensed publisher. The open license sets open textbooks apart from traditional textbooks by allowing users to read online, download, or sometimes print the book at no additional...

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  • Virginia Open Education Foundation
    Virginia Open Education Foundation
    Virginia Open Education Foundation is a not-for-profit 501 corporation dedicated to bringing curriculum and educational content resources to the K-12 students of the Commonwealth of Virginia through open education...

  • SLOOP Project
    SLOOP Project
    SLOOP - Sharing Learning Objects in an Open Perspective - is an eLearning and open content project started in 2005 thanks to a European project co-funded within the Leonardo da Vinci programe...

  • Gleducar
    Gleducar
    Gleducar is a free educational project emerged in Argentina in 2002. It is also an important NGO from Argentina in the field of education and technology....


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