The Network of Open Orgs is an alliance of diverse organizations and leaders dedicated to expanding global access to knowledge. Established in 2019, the Network aims to support open education efforts across the globe. Inspired by the 2019 UNESCO OER Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER), The Network of Open Orgs seeks to support practitioners and their national governments to enable more effective implementations of OER by catalyzing collaboration on local, regional and global Open Education[1] initiatives that require concerted, coordinated efforts among a broad range of stakeholders.
The Network of Open Orgs encompasses representatives from a spectrum of organizations, including educational institutions, international non-governmental organizations, inter-governmental organizations, and government entities.
While the Network of Open Orgs places paramount emphasis on advancing OER and Open Education Practices, its constituents also engage in diverse facets of the open ecosystem, encompassing Open Access, Open Science, Open Source Software, Open Data, and Open Culture.
Collectively, the organizations within the Network of Open Orgs have a local, regional, and global focus in their Open Education efforts. This diversity and reach, combined with the knowledge and expertise among the Network of Open Orgs members, represents a key strength of the Network. The Network of Open Orgs advances Open Education efforts by leveraging their member networks and practitioner communities to support new and existing initiatives. The Network of Open Orgs’ Open Education initiatives cover a broad range of activities from facilitating knowledge creation and exchange to fostering collaboration, providing research, training, and technical support.
Activities the Network of Open Orgs’ members are engaged in:
- Open education orientation, advocacy, and awareness-raising;
- coordination and facilitation of local, regional, and international meetings and conferences;
- facilitation and support of diverse practitioner communities within different geographical spheres and online;
- facilitation of connections and collaborations between disparate practitioner communities, as well as connections between practitioners and policy-makers;
- participation in and contribution to research activities aimed at generating field evidence;
- providing capacity-building and professional development opportunities;
- expertise in the development and implementation of open policies and licensing.
The Network of Open Orgs organizations support each other and help facilitate coordinated efforts across a broad range of stakeholders to expand global access to knowledge.
Participating Organizations
For more information, please send an email to info@networkofopenorgs.org.
- Open Education Global
- Community College Consortium for OER-Open Education Global
- OER Africa
- Open Education Policy Hub-Lab
- Creative Commons
- Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
- European Network for Catalysing Open Resources in Education (ENCORE+)
- International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
- ICDE OER Advocacy Committee
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
- SPARC Europe
- European Institute for Learning, Innovation and Cooperation and the International Community for Open Research and Education
- Centrum Cyfrowe
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)-SkillsCommons
- The University of Barcelona
- The University of Bonn
- Politecnico di Milano-METID
- Commonwealth of Learning
- UNESCO
- University of Leeds (Knowledge Equity Network)
- LibreTexts
- Idaho State Board of Education
1 Open Education, a movement to enable free, universal access to education, encompasses open content (OER), licenses, practices, pedagogies, and policy, in service to making teaching and learning more equitable and inclusive for everyone. ↵