African Virtual University
The African Virtual University (AVU) is an innovative educational organization established in 1997 aimed at serving the countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With a network of 54 partner institutions in 28 countries, the main objective of the AVU is to enhance capacity in ODeL methodologies and support economic development by providing world-class quality education and training programs to students and academic professionals in Africa. The AVU intends to be the leading continental and virtual education organization collaborating with, and supporting African higher education and training institutions. Through capacity enhancement the AVU will play a major role in effectively increasing access to local and global demand-driven graduate and undergraduate programs in disciplines critical for Africa's socio-economic development.
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China Open Resource for Education (CORE)
China Open Resources for Education (CORE) is a non-profit organization. Her mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education. CORE includes 10 Lead Universities.
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Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of educational and artistic works—whether owned or in the public domain. Creative Commons licences provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for educators, authors and artists that build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. It is sustained by the generous support of various organizations including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For general information, visit http://creativecommons.org.
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Fahamu
Fahamu has a vision of the world where people organise to emancipate themselves from all forms of oppression, recognise their social responsibilities, respect each other's differences, and realise their full potential.
Fahamu supports human rights and social justice in Africa by:
- Supporting social justice advocacy through the innovative use of information and communication technologies
- Stimulating debate, discussion and analysis
- Distributing news and information
- Developing training materials and running distance-learning courses.
Fahamu focuses primarily on Africa, although we work with others to support the global movement for human rights and social justice.
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Institute for Electronic Governance
Institute for Electronic Governance located at Hyderabad in India, is an autonomous society promoting Industry, Education and Government interaction and working towards producing quality human resources with industry grade skills by providing opportunities in government to apply their knowledge. It is working in the state of Andhra Pradesh of India that produces 100,000 Engineering Graduates, 350,000 science and arts graduates per year.
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Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium
The Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium (JOCW) was started as the Japan OCW Alliance with six top-rated Japanese universities, which launched their OCW site in May 2005. It was renewed as the Japan OCW Consortium with newly joined three universities on April 2006. The mission of JOCW is familiarizing OCW activity, assisting the higher educational institutions that will start OCW in Japan, and communicating with the foreign OCW-related organizations.
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National Institute of Multimedia Education
National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) is a Japanese independent administrative institution that contributes to the advancement of higher education by promoting the utilization of multimedia and ICT. NIME manages a learning information portal "NIME-glad", and develops and distributes learning content and Faculty Development programs.
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Novell
Novell® is a worldwide leading provider of enterprise-class software and services, offering flexible solutions that combine open source and commercial technologies based on open standards.
Novell recognizes that open access to our product knowledge and training is a significant part of our mission to provide innovative and customer-relevant global services and support. Participating in Open Education initiatives such as OpenCourseWare helps us ensure that all individuals (regardless of economic circumstances) who are prepared and who desire to advance their education and life circumstances are given that opportunity
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Opensource OpenCourseWare Prototype System (OOPS)
OOPS is a volunteer-based group that is making Traditional Chinese translations of MIT OpenCourseWare and other open educational course content (including JHSPH, USU, the Phase Transformations & Complex Properties Research Group Database at Cambridge University, the Japan OCW alliance, and others). OOPS is also promoting the concept of "open educational resources" or OER through a grassroots, bottom-up model. OOPS is focused on removing language barriers, guaranteeing equal access to knowledge, encouraging the output of local OER communities, and facilitating communication between developing and developed countries.
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Thailand Cyber University
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Universia
Universia is a Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese network that promotes and facilitates the integration and development of university members in the knowledge and information society, as well as in the telecommunications sector. Universia's mission is to offer the Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese university community the optimum mix of content and services so as to facilitate the creation of a common forum for higher learning through training, culture, research, and collaboration with the business world. Universia's membership includes 792 universities and institutions of higher learning, which represent 7.7 million students (approximately 84% of the university sectors of participating countries).
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Vietnam OpenCourseware
VOCW - Vietnam OpenCourseWare - is a joint project among the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) of Vietnam, the Vietnam Software and Media Company (VASC) and the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) to make opencourseware (OCW) materials easily and freely to the Vietnamese including university faculty members, students and self-learners.The objective of VOCW is to promote the OCW usage in Vietnam and widen the linkages between Vietnamese universities and leading universities around the world. Strategically, OCW will be an important tool to advance education of Vietnam toward the international level.
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The WiderNet Project eGranary Digital Library
The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE our partner institutions in developing countries, we deliver millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost.
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