OER Course Collaboratory/Existing resources

Professional development workshops

 * Open Textbook workshop developed by the Community College Open Textbook Collaborative to assist institutions to discover and select, adopt and use open textbooks.
 * Learning4Content, provides free training in wiki skills to build capacity among educators in the creation of open content.

Tutorials &amp; Toolkits

 * Open Education Content, developed under the OLCOS project
 * Introduction to OER, by Judy Baker
 * Introduction to OER Tutorials, by Judy Baker
 * UNESCO OER Toolkit, by Philipp Schmidt

Open textbooks on OER

 * OER Handbook for Educators, also available for purchase at Lulu.com

Open access research on OER

 * A review of the the Open Educational Resources movement: Achievements, challenges and new opportunities. Atkins, D., Seely Brown, J., Hammond, A. (2007). Online: http://www.hewlett.org/download?guid=745fe08c-54de-102c-ae2b-0002b3e9a4de.
 * IRRODL, Vol 10, No 5 (2009), Special Issue on Openness and the Future of Higher Education.
 * Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources, OECD Research project. No cost access, but sadly published under all-rights reserved copyright.
 * Open Learning, Vol, 24, No 1 (2009), Special Issue on Open Education Resources,
 * Open Educational Resources: the Way Forward. Deliberations of an international Community of Interest, Susan D' Antoni, UNESCO. No cost access, but sadly published under all-rights reserved copyright.
 * Open Educational Resources: Conversations in Cyberspace Susan D' Antoni & Catriona Savage, UNESCO.