Revolutionize your course materials and empower student learning with LibreTexts, the leading open educational resource (OER) platform. We offer a trusted, user-friendly environment for faculty to create, customize, and share accessible and interactive educational resources. From textbooks and adaptive homework to ancillary materials, LibreTexts provides the tools you need to tailor content precisely to your curriculum and learning objectives. Partner with us to champion open education initiatives and contribute to a growing community of educators dedicated to accessible, high-quality learning experiences.
Explore the vast potential of LibreTexts’ 17 subject-specific libraries, housing over 2,000 textbooks spanning diverse disciplines. Beyond pre-existing resources, our platform’s true strength lies in its unparalleled flexibility. Remix chapters from existing texts, seamlessly integrate your own scholarly work, and create custom open textbooks, case studies, lab experiments, interactive modules, and more. This adaptability allows you to craft learning materials perfectly aligned with your unique teaching style and course content, fostering deeper student engagement.Enhance your assessments and personalize the learning journey with ADAPT, our open homework platform. Leveraging a powerful combination of pre-built, high-quality assessments and adaptive learning models, ADAPT offers endless customization to match your curriculum. Benefit from a shared question bank of over 240,000 openly licensed elements and the continuous development of new question types and activities. Furthermore, seamlessly embed Jupyter Notebooks, ADAPT homework questions, 3D visualizations, and videos directly into textbook pages, transforming static content into dynamic, interactive learning experiences that transcend traditional textbooks.
The Idaho State Board of Education makes policy for K-20 public education in the state of Idaho, USA, to create opportunities for lifelong attainment of high-quality education, research, and innovation. Over the past decade, the Board has advanced policy and promoted the use of Open Educational Resources to improve access and affordability for all students, especially at the postsecondary level.
The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) is the leading, global membership association working to bring inclusive, quality education to all.
Through its global membership, ICDE impacts millions of students, shares knowledge and best practices, facilitates intercultural collaboration, and advocates for progress and recognition of inclusive, scalable and sustainable education worldwide.
As a long-standing consultative partner to UNESCO, ICDE and its members work globally and regionally to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Together, we shape inclusive, scalable and sustainable education.
SPARC Europe is a Dutch foundation committed to delivering on the promise of open access, open science, open scholarship and open education.
Our vision is that European education and research is open by default for the Higher Education community, research, education, industry, and for society as a whole.
Our mission is to advance open knowledge by influencing policies that maximise the access and re-use of Europe’s research and educational resources. Through convening and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, we increase the evidence base, share good practices, advocate for policies and initiatives that support inclusive participation in scholarly communication, safeguard open science and adopt and promote sustainable, longer-term models.
SPARC is a non-profit advocacy organization that supports open systems for research and education that enable everyone, everywhere to access, contribute to, and benefit from the knowledge that shapes our world. As a catalyst for action, our pragmatic agenda focuses on driving policy change, supporting member action, and cultivating communities that advance our vision of knowledge as a public good. SPARC’s membership includes about 250 libraries and academic organizations across North America.
The Knowledge Equity Network (KEN)
The Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) connects Higher Education institutions, international organisations, and individual practitioners to promote and facilitate collaboration in Open Research, Open Education, and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Through the Declaration on Knowledge Equity, KEN fosters knowledge sharing and equitable access globally across the Higher Education sector.
Politecnico di Milano – METID Task Force Learning Innovation
Politecnico di Milano is Italy’s largest university for Engineering, Architecture, and Industrial Design, and it is ranked as one of the most outstanding European universities in these fields.
Politecnico di Milano has a long-established commitment to teaching and learning innovation through its specific university unit called METID, which since 1996 has been developing digital learning services and providing learning opportunities for teaching staff through design-based methodologies.Since 2014, METID has delivered the POK-Polimi Open Knowledge platform, one of the leading Italian MOOC platforms with 137 active MOOCs (many of which are also available on the global Coursera platform), and around 345,000 course subscribers. POK complements institutional curricula, supports teacher training, holds up the development of transversal, digital and advanced skills, and opens Politecnico’s specific knowledge to the citizens.
paulstacey.global
Paul Stacey works globally in higher education strategically connecting open education with other forms of open, building open communities of practice for knowledge sharing, and supporting the implementation and evaluation of open programs. Paul has deep experience in open through his 20+ years of work at BCcampus, Creative Commons and as executive director at Open Education Global. He now works independently as an open researcher and consultant at paulstacey.global.
OER Africa: Making Open Educational Resources Work for Africa!
OER Africa, an initiative by Saide in partnership with the NBA, has been promoting the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) across African education systems since 2008, with the support of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Our mission is to empower educators, academics, librarians, and policymakers to develop, share, and adapt OER to address Africa’s unique educational needs.
What We Do
We build collaborative networks to assist African institutions in effectively implementing OER, ensuring that educators and learners actively contribute to global OER movements.
Our Focus Areas
- Developing professional skills in higher education for OER adoption.
- Co-creating policies to support sustainable OER initiatives.
- Building an online collection of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) OER resources for academics, librarians, and senior managers.
- Facilitating peer learning and sharing best practices to strengthen OER implementation.
Join Us!
Access CPD content, open education tutorials, and interactive online courses.
Established in 2008, OEGlobal is an international non-profit organisation with a mission to support and advance openness in education worldwide. We advance our mission with a network of more than 400 institutional and individual members and partners in over 60 countries. We build global and regional communities of support and practice by organizing, coordinating, and supporting a diverse range of events, networks, and platforms. We support and facilitate knowledge transfer and professional development opportunities through workshops, webinars, and conferences. We foster opportunities for co-creation and mainstreaming openness in education worldwide by catalyzing collaborations with open education leaders and organizations and connecting key stakeholders.
While OEGlobal’s principal role is global, our activities also include expanding reach, representation, and engagement with different regions worldwide. We aim to highlight and support the unique and differentiated ways open education is adopted and practised in various
communities around the world. As part of these efforts, OE Global seeks to create connections within regions and with the larger global community through spaces of sharing and dialogue. Examples of such activities include: