OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
2.2.6 Comments on Other Projects
It is not within the scope of this report to review in depth all of the projects in the OER portfolio. We will, however, scan the landscape and provide comments on others, clustered in five topical areas, to help illustrate the scope of the portfolio and project areas besides the projects we have highlighted. We will focus on international activities in Section 2.2.7 although we will not exclude international programs from this section. These projects indicate some very good beginnings but are still largely an ad hoc collection. This is appropriate for the phase of activities to date, but a more strategic and related set of projects need to evolve.
- Incubation of High-Quality Specialized Open Resources.—Here we summarize the projects other than the few we highlighted earlier for creating and sharing high-quality open educational resources. The projects range from very specialized open knowledge sites and data sets to comprehensive collections and curricula.
- Coastline Community College is developing Chengo,[1] an online Chinese and English language learning system and to adapt for Spanish learners as well.
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is developing, evaluating, and disseminating Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online,[2] an Internet site modeled on principles of neural networking, which examines current research to discover the molecular and cellular basis of human thinking.
- Harvard University continues to develop the Open Collections Program,[3] making Harvard’s library treasures freely available on the web.
- Foothill–De Anza Community College District is developing SOFIA[4] (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets)—a collaboration of California community colleges to provide quality online.
- Johns Hopkins University is developing the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OpenCourseWare.[5]
—f.Monterey Institute for Technology and Education is developing the National Repository of Online Courses,[6] a library of high-
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