Open Educational Resources

Collective ideas regarding open pedagogy "Free learning content is somewhat inevitable. Good learning design and quality instruction, however, are not."

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.

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

Concrete examples of how open pedagogy is implemented in the real world.

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.