A Framework for Learning and Sharing: Helping OER Projects Conduct Case Studies to Assess and Share their Achievements

by | Mar 8, 2014

The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (www.iskme.org) is working to develop ongoing mechanisms for knowledge sharing on open education initiatives worldwide, through research, field building, and innovations in web-based media. ISKME has been working with six projects over the past year to help create case studies and build capacity to track, analyze and share key developments in the creation, use and reuse of open educational resources (OER) within the projects themselves.
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Building Open Educational Resources from the Ground Up: South Africa’s Free High School Science Texts

by | Feb 17, 2011

The relatively new field of open educational resources (OER) is just now receiving more widespread attention and study. As such, there have been few opportunities thus far to share knowledge across program, organizational and national boundaries. This article presents a case study of the development of the South African project Free High School Science Texts (FHSST).
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OER Case Study Publication No.4, Mission 2007 Training Commons: Developing a Living Curriculum for Telecentre Workers in India

by | Feb 10, 2011

A large-scale initiative by the government of India to create “telecentres” in villages throughout 

the country created a need for training materials to support hundreds of thousands of future telecentre 

managers. The Mission 2007 Training Commons initiative was established to develop OERs to meet 

this need. Training Commons sought to use a collaborative, open content approach that draws on the 

expertise of existing trainers in order to develop curriculum materials that are free, accessible online, and 

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