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Maintained going forward at Wikipedia:WikiProject Open/OER/Resources.

Reference information about OER

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Do you know of general knowledge resources, online or offline, that would help support the improvement of Wikipedia content about openness in education? Please include them here, along with any notes - citation and references are critical to the quality of Wikipedia articles. Open Access items are particularly useful.

General

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  • The "See also" list from OER article
  • OER Knowledge Cloud, a UNESCO/COL project established to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate available documents of enduring value to researchers, industry, government, scholars, writers, historians, journalists and informal learners

Books

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Journal articles

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  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals
  • Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources, 2007. ISBN 9789264032125
  • Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: An Asian Perspective
  • Research Library Issues, no. 280 (Sept. 2012): Pre-pub of "Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries"; this has a potentially useful reference list also

Blogs and blog posts

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  • Posts like this one document a variety of open educational practices. We should consider the best way to capture the knowledge expressed in such posts, while keeping in mind that blogs run by individuals are not particularly high quality sources (per WP:RS).
  • Iterating Toward Openness from David Wiley
  • Creative Commons blog
  • OER Blog by Cable Green

Reports from advocacy and other organizations

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Miscellaneous resources

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Country-specific OER resources

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United Kingdom

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  • [1] - CC-BY-SA paper on OER history specifically focused on the UK (by Amber Thomas & David Kernohan). Also many useful references.
  • [2] range of (UK)OER images, all cc-by-sa and generated by Martin Hawksey
  • [3] JISC OER impact report - UK-focused qualitative view of the impact of OER on academic staff

Korea

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Indonesia

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Information about Wikipedia editing

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Citing sources:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Education may have useful suggestions.