Everything in this video is free, open, and sharable content. We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are.

Everything in this video is free, open, and sharable content.

“We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use.”

- The Cape Town Open Education Declaration


“Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia


“[E]ducators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.”



Wikibooks is creating a free collection of open content textbooks, including a collection for young children.


“Creative Commons is working to … use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian.”

- Creative Commons


In the commons, whatever you give away, you still have for yourself.

“At the heart of the movement toward Open Educational Resources is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology … provide[s] an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and re-use knowledge.”

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation



We’re turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. We hope you will join us.

- WikiEducator

WikiEducator’s mission is to produce a free version of the educational curriculum by 2015.


Wikimedia Commons has 2,169,849 freely usable media files (probably more by the time you read this).


You can be a part of this exciting movement by licensing your content with a Creative Commons license or by uploading to an OER site.

Sharing is good!


Flickr gives you an easy option to make your photos open and sharable under a Creative Commons license.


The content from more than 1700 courses from MIT are freely available on the web.

These courses are accessed by lifelong learners all around the world.


Education should be free for everyone.


“These resources … contribute to making education more accessible, especially where money for learning materials is scarce. They also nourish the kind of participatory culture of learning, creating, sharing and cooperation that rapidly changing knowledge societies need.”



There are 53,298,095 photos that are open and usable to you in Flickr (probably more by the time you read this).

Yes, that’s over 53 million.



Sharing is good!





FreeReading is an open collection of research-based tools for early literacy teachers.

The Florida Instructional Materials Adoption Committee for K-3 Supplemental Reading Programs has officially adopted this resource.


Wikibooks is creating a free collection of open content textbooks, including a collection for young children.


“We believe that access to knowledge and learning tools is a basic right for every child. Our goal is to make curricula and learning resources available to everyone.”

- The Global Education & Learning Community



“OER are the parts of that knowledge that comprise the fundamental components of education – content and tools for teaching, learning and research.”

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation



“These strategies represent more than just the right thing to do. They constitute a wise investment in teaching and learning for the 21st century. They will make it possible to redirect funds from expensive textbooks towards better learning.”



We’re turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. We hope you will join us.

- WikiEducator

WikiEducator’s mission is to produce a free version of the educational curriculum by 2015.


Wikimedia Commons has 2,169,849 freely usable media files (probably more by the time you read this).



Sharing is good!












“Creative Commons work[s] to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare ‘some rights reserved.’”

- Creative Commons


Curriki is a site for K-12 Open Source Curriculum to which anyone can contribute.







OER Commons is a large collection of open educational resources.

It uses tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.


ccMixter lets you download, sample, cut-up, and share thousands of pieces of open-licensed music.



Sharing is good!


“This emerging open education movement combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint.”








OER Commons is a large collection of open educational resources.

It uses tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.









FreeReading is an open collection of instructional resources to teach early reading.

It has been adopted by the state of Florida.



Sharing is good!


Curriki is a site for K-12 Open Source Curriculum to which anyone can contribute.


“We are on the cusp of a global revolution in teaching and learning. Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use.”



You can be a part of this exciting movement by licensing your content with a Creative Commons license or by uploading to one of these sites.

Sharing is good!