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Towards more affordable education for all students worldwide

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edit    Who we are The OERu is a virtual collaboration of like-minded institutions committed to creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit. The OERu aims to provide free learning opportunities to all students worldwide using OER learning materials with pathways to gain credible qualifications from recognised education institutions. It is based on the community service and outreach mission to develop a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional delivery systems in post-secondary education. Through the community service mission of participating institutions we will open pathways for OER learners to earn formal academic credit and pay reduced fees for assessment and credit. Tell me more! edit    What we do Aims Directed by the core principles of engagement the OERu collaboration: Will design and implement a parallel learning universe to provide free learning opportunities for all students worldwide with pathways to earn credible post-secondary credentials. Offer courses and programs based solely on OER and open textbooks. Design and implement scalable pedagogies appropriate for the OER university concept. Will implement scalable systems of volunteer student support through community service learning approaches. Coordinate assessment and credentialising services on a cost recovery basis for participating education institutions to ensure credible qualifications and corresponding course articulation among anchor partners. edit    OERu partners Founding anchor partners (current) Athabasca University Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology NorthTec Otago Polytechnic Southern New Hampshire University Thompson Rivers University University of South Africa University of Southern Queensland University of Wollongong OER Foundation (non-teaching) BCcampus (non-teaching) See: Founding anchor partner statements Anchor partners (current) Excelsior College Kwantlen Polytechnic University Open University of Catalonia Thomas Edison State College Unitec Institute of Technology University of South Wales University of the South Pacific Wintec Institute of Technology Sligo S.N.D.T. Women's University Ako Aotearoa Charles Sturt University University of Tasmania eCampusAlberta North-West University Contact North  |  Contact Nord Portage College The Open University Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University The University of the Highlands and Islands Curtin University National Open University of Nigeria Sponsors Commonwealth of Learning UNESCO, Pacific States List of anchor partners and sponsors

edit    News June 2015 The National Open University of Nigeria has become the third African OERu partner. October 2014 The University of the Highlands and Islands is Scotland's first OERu partner. August 2014 Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University claims accolade of first OERu partner from the Middle East. July 2014 The Open University confirms decision to join the OERu. International media | Archive edit    OERU planning discussions Join the OERu group. Failed to load RSS feed from https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/oeru/msgs/rss_v2_0.xml: There was a problem during the HTTP request: 404 Not Found edit    Live microblog feed AGGREGATED #OERu feed