Over the last three years or so, Open Education Programs (OEPs) have exploded in popularity. At the present time, OEPs take many different forms. Some universities are implementing OEPs that provide open access to educational content such as courses generated by their faculty, scholars, and students. MIT’s OpenCourseWare is perhaps the prototypical example of this type of OEP. Others such as the Sakai project, are concerned with providing an open software platform to facilitate collaborative and learning environments for higher education. Still others such as the SEP (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) provide open access to content that is contributed by faculty from many universities but within a single discipline. Finally some like the Connexions project at Rice University (cnx.rice.edu), provide broad-based content commons of free, interconnected educational materials in a modular format along with an open software platform, that can be made available by anyone globally, and reused and re-contextualized by others.
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