Companies in the Open educational resources (OER) industry
Name | Description | Industry | Official Website | Location | ||
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EDX is a nonprofit and open-source enterprise providing online courses and helping universities provide online courses. | ||||||
Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing copyright-free photography under the Unsplash license. | ||||||
Coursera is an online education technology company founded in 2012 by Daphne Koller. | ||||||
Khan Academy is a nonprofit online educational organization that was founded in 2008. | ||||||
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization with the mission to help overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world's pressing challenges. | ||||||
United states government agency dedicated to civil aviation matters | ||||||
TED is a global set of conferences founded in 1984 by Richard Saul Wurman. | ||||||
Group of museums and research centers administered by the united states government | ||||||
Vimeo is a developer and provider of a video sharing platform and related solutions. | ||||||
United states government department | ||||||
Codecademy is a company providing a platform based on web and mobile that teaches digital skills to users. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator. | ||||||
Advocating, training, & certifying individuals in the professional use of Linux and Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). | ||||||
PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates interactive math and science simulations that are free for teachers. | ||||||
One Laptop per Child is an usd 100 laptop for children founded in 2005 by Seymour Papert, Nicholas Negroponte and Thomas Boonsiri. | ||||||
National Endowment for the Humanities is a company founded in 1965. | ||||||
Finatical is an educational services company based in Wales offering a free, finance-focused educational resource website for young adults. | ||||||
Electronic Information for Libraries is a company founded in 1999. | ||||||
PLOS Public Library Of Science is a nonprofit open-access publisher founded in 2001 by Harold E. Varmus, Michael Eisen and Patrick O. Brown. | ||||||
Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive books founded in 2022 by Michael S. Hart. | ||||||
Free resource library of books hosted by the wikimedia foundation and edited by volunteers | ||||||
A list of open textbooks in various subdisciplines of Mathematics approved by the AIM editorial board. | ||||||
A web-based publication of virtually all mit course content | ||||||
A community of universities, colleges, businesses, and other organizations that have partnered to build and sustain open-source administrative software for higher education, by higher education. | ||||||
OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network of open education resources. | ||||||
WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and science courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems. Problems in the NPL target most lower division undergraduate math courses and some advanced courses. Supported courses include college algebra, discrete mathematics, probability and statistics, single and multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra and complex analysis. |
