OER timeline

This page started in a Learning4Content workshop as a resource to mark significant events in the Open Educational Resources(OER) movement. As an ecosystem, OER has meaningful events that mark its growth. That's what this page is about. OER also has an endless number of people, events and things that make up the ecosystem and contribute to its health and expansion. Those are celebrated in a new OER Birthdays page.

Please share your OER milestones hereand your OER birthdays here and help track the growth of OER worldwide!

Notes for inclusion and further research


 * UWC and senate approval of the FORE IP policy
 * Version 1 of the Free Cultural Works definition
 * Date of new IP Policy at Otago Poly
 * Date of Otago Poly Council decision to establish the OERF
 * OU Nederlands OpenER first courses launch date (December 5, 2006 according to Robert Schuwer).
 * India Knowledge Commission OER Recommendations
 * Canada Virtual U - Best first year OER project
 * Australia USQ Open OER College
 * Peer2Peer University
 * Academic Earth - first OER value-added service provider?
 * NROC - Monterey Institute
 * Many country firsts among OCWC members (Japan, China, Spain, Korea, Vietnam)
 * The GlobalText Project
 * OpenBC
 * Open Learning Exchange - first OER universal basic education?http://ole.org/
 * Teachers without Borders - first OER teacher training? http://www.teacherswithoutborders.org/ (also see OU UK TESSA project for teachers)
 * First LMS to auto publish OER?