P2PU’s ongoing notes about content developers, tools, platforms, and organizations who contribute to our ecosystem of courses and learning resources. Live at: https://p2pu.github.io/notes-on-edtech/
Online course providers
Organizations who develop content that people have used for learning circles in the past, distinguished by license. Our baseline rule for learning circles is that participants should never have to pay anything to attend, however our long-term vision is that learning circles serve to improve open online learning resources, rather than help institutions justify paying license fees to proprietary vendors.
Open
Course developers that reliably opt for Creative Commons or equivalent open license.
- DigitalLearn
- LumenLearning
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Saylor Academy
- Scratch
- OERu
- Open Learning Initiative
- Openclassrooms
- OpenLearn
- Skills Commons
- TechBoomers
- Wisc-Online
Free
Course developers who generally retain copyright, but offer a useable portion of course materials for free.
- Alison
- Canvas network
- Codecademy
- Coursera
- EdX
- FutureLearn
- GCF Learn Free
- Khan Academy
- OpenHIP
- Plus Acumen
- Udacity
- USA Learns
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- W3 Schools
Payment
Course developers who charge for access to courses, and whose fees (in the context of learning circles) are generally covered by an institution-wide license at a public library system.
Good OER resources not structured as online courses
These organizations and initiatives develop openly licensed content that is not compiled as an online course (e.g. database, open textbook). Since learning circle facilitators are not expected to be content experts, we need to ensure that materials are presented in a format that works well for learning circles: 6-8 weeks of 2 hour meetings in small, face-to-face study groups.
Open Textbooks
- African Minds
- BC Campus Open Ed
- College of the Canyons
- LibreTexts
- Open Textbook Library
- Openstax
- Rebus Guide to publishing open textbooks
- Unglue.it
- See additional resources on content origins tab here
Databases/Curation Tools
- Aprendi
- Class Central
- Community College Consortium for OER
- Digital Public Library of America
- HippoCampus
- Humbolt State LibGuides
- Open Library
- OER Commons Also see microsite project → https://www.oercommons.org/microsites
- OER World Map
- Open Culture
- Project Gutenberg
- Robert Schuwer
- Skills Commons
- Solvonauts
- WikiHow
- Wikiversity
OER Creation
These open source tools can be used to remix and create OER.
Platforms
- Open EdX (source)
- P2PU Learnanta (source)
- P2PU Course in a Box (source)
- Moodle (source)
- Canvas (source)
- Oppia (source)
- OER Commons OpenAuthor
- Google Course Builder (source??)
- H5P (source)
- Adapt Learning (source)
- WikiEducator
- WikitoLearn (source)
- Wordpress
- More on open platforms tab here
Supplemental Tools
- Bookdown open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. See also Docker image Axel mentioned, which brings Bookdown into a potential Gitlab pipeline.
- DeepL for translation
- OpenKi (source)
- Prose.io
- Netlify CMS
- Gitbook proprietary static site generator
- Hugo static site generator
Communities of Practice
Organizations with likeminded initiatives.
- EduLabs Open source project for analyzing, developing, sharing, and filtering OER
- Open Pedagogy Repository for open pedagogy practices
- Digital Pedagogy Lab
- [Rebus]
- Iowa State University OER Research Tool
- Connected Learning Alliance
- OER Africa
- Open Virtual Mobility EU project
- Reevo (Spanish)
- ROER4D Research on open educational resources for development
- University of the People
Offline tools
Tools for bringing OER and other learning resources offline.
- eGranary
- Internet in a box (IIAB) - Tool for hosting a set of resources using a raspberry pi.
- Learning Equality (from same people as IIAB) (https://github.com/fle-internal)
- Rachel Friends - Sells devices with IIAB on it. Example of a premade content repository: http://rachelfriends.org/previews/rachelpi_64EN_4.0/
- Read the Docs Ability to pdf course materials
- Scorm Downloading courses and hosting in a LMS
- Youtube-dl Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
Uncategorized links, thoughts, etc.
- http://opensyllabusproject.org/faq/
- https://medium.freecodecamp.org/200-universities-just-launched-560-free-online-courses-heres-the-full-list-d9dd13600b04
- https://github.com/chili-epfl/FROG/wiki
- https://ebookfoundation.org/
- https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning
- https://haxtheweb.org/components/hax-body/demo/
- https://digitallearn.org/ - https://github.com/commercekitchen/cpldl
- https://github.com/hakkens
- https://davehakkens.nl/community/forums/topic/precious-plastic-version-4-%F0%9F%98%AE/
- https://preciousplastic.com/en/videos/extra/builder.html
- http://www.bridge.org.za/knowledge-hub/psam/post-school-access-map-overview/
- http://www.bie.org/about/what_pbl - Project based learning resources
- http://studycollaboration.com/ - peer learning
- https://github.com/LearningRegistry/LearningRegistry/wiki
- Precious plastic - community focussed on recycling - lots of openly licensed resources.
- https://learnxinyminutes.com/
- http://www.textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page
- https://openlearning.mit.edu/courses-programs/open-learning-library (blend of MITOCW and MITX)