Open Education Handbook/OER communities and interest groups

Europe

• Open Education Europa
• The University of Southampton - has a large OER repository
• The University of Nottingham - has a large OER repository
• The University of Oxford - has several OER sites, including http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk
• The Open University has OpenLearn
• The textbook project "L3T" (textbook for learning and teaching with technologies") is a prizewinning CC BY-SA project in German language, its second version was collaboratively developed within 7 days and more than 250 people

US and Australia

• "Copyright for Educators" courses aimed at primary school teachers and librarians in the US and Australia. While there is a jurisdiction-specific focus, they provide a great grounding for anyone in the teaching space

Global South

• The African Virtual University
• OERu
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Various initiatives in Utah
• Temoa in Latin America
• CORE
• Siyavula Education in South Africa
• National Repository of Open Educational Resources in India
• OER Africa

Groups of people or individuals interested in OER

• OER-Discuss mailing list
• Open Knowledge Foundation Open Education Working Group
• OER research hub
• SCORE fellows
• OER Asia
• OER Advocacy mailing list
• OER University
• School of Open Google Group
• UNESCO OER community
• Educause Openness Constituent Group
• Open Courseware Consortium
• OER Community at Athabasca University
• OER Forum
• WikiEducator
• P2PU Community
• Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)