The document discusses various open initiatives in education including open source software, open access research publications, open educational resources, open textbooks, and open data. It provides examples of open educational resources created through provincial funding programs and describes the benefits of open licensing models like Creative Commons for promoting reuse and collaboration on educational materials.

1. The Opportunity Side of Open Paul Stacey February 3, 2011

3. Challenging Times Going Digital http://edtechfrontier.com Access Copyright’s Royalty Demands Spark Interest in OER

4. Opportunity Side of Open

5. Open Source Software Open-Source Software (OSS): Computer software that is available in source code form for which the source code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license that permits users to study, change, and improve the software.

7. Moodle http://moodle.org

8. Royal Roads University Moodle http://oer.royalroads.ca/moodle

9. Lots Of OSS in Education

10. Open Access Research Publication Open Access (OA): Free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, webwide. There are two roads to OA: 1. the "golden road" of OA journal-publishing , where journals provide OA to their articles (either by charging the author-institution for refereeing/publishing outgoing articles instead of charging the user-institution for accessing incoming articles, or by simply making their online edition free for all) 2. the "green road" of OA self-archiving, where authors provide OA to their own published articles, by making their own eprints free for all.

11. Open Access Press http://www.aupress.ca

12. Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org

13. Open Access Journals http://www.openj-gate.com

15. Open Government/Data

17. Foundation Funded OER http://cnx.org http://openlearn.open.ac.uk http://ocw.mit.edu

18. Publicly Funded OER http://solr.bccampus.ca http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english http://www.jorum.ac.uk

20. Open Textbooks http://education.newsweek.com/2011/01/25/who-needs-textbooks.print.html http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Alberta+student+textbook+fees+could+half/4010791/story.html “ Gov. Schwarzenegger Launches First-in-Nation Initiative to Develop Free Digital Textbooks for High School Students” “ Texas seeks open textbooks.”

21. Open Textbooks http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org http://oerconsortium.org

22. FlatWorld Knowledge

27. Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org

28. Creative Commons

29. BC Commons http://www.bccommons.ca

30. Open Licenses

31. Finding Open Education Resources

32. Repository http://solr.bccampus.ca

33. Repository