From Wikigogy

Open educational resources (OER) are free as in FREEDOM[1] -- you can use, remix, republish, and yes profit from open educational resources and you cannot remove these freedoms, commercial or otherwise. Some people don't understand that freedom means freedom to prosper, too. They may impose non-commercial clauses on would be open resources. That closes the resources. Open means FREEDOM to grow, change and prosper. More about this freedom is in Wikipedia's Copyleft article.

Not an English teacher?

You might find open educational resources for your subject area on one of the sites listed at the OER Grapevine.

Wikigogy.org focuses specifically on teaching English as a second or foreign language and related stuff.

References

[1] Software and Community in the Early 21st Century. (2006) Eben Moglen

Tell people it’s free as in FREEDOM. Tell them that if you don't tell them anything else. Because they need to know. --Eben Moglen

Transcript: http://www.geof.net/blog/2006/12/10/eben-moglen

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorfgQlEJv8

See also

• Wikipedia's Open educational resources article.
• Wikiversity's Open educational resources article.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's OER study
• UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning's OER wiki about OER development
• Eben Moglen explains Open -- just read it
• The Current State of Open Educational Resources (February 2006)
• Open Courseware Consortium
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - OER
• OER Grapevine - a wiki and email list bringing OER project leaders together to brainstorm on OER development issues and strategies
• OERderves - blog about the OER movement