Members

The basic idea behind X5GON is to computationally blur the lines and barriers of language, modality, culture, across all OER materials and finally solve the problems of silosed OER repositories. To achieve this we need to access as many, if not all OER repositories that we possibly can, and for this purpose we designed an Outreach Partnership between OER repositories and the X5GON project.

We think a strategic partnership would allow us to access OER stakeholders, and in return give them access to the X5GON technologies. There are 4 main benefits to OER repositories in joining our Outreach programme:

1. Understanding audiences: Use data and analytic to better understand what audiences want from OER, why and when they want it, and what impact this has on the network of OER repositories
2. Understanding content: Explore what machine learning can teach each OER repository and X5GON about large quantities of OER and institutuinal educational programmes and services, and what OER repositories stands to gain from it;
3. Curation and personalisation: Create a more personal OER experience across sites, designing tools and algorithms to help educators with content and teaching decisions
4. Content of the future: Design future audience experiences, based on X5GON R&D’s objectives, and new forms of open education.

Respondents to Commonwealth of Learning survey for Governments and stakeholders provided a number of links to various websites and repositories as examples of OER that they use. This was part of the Commonwealth of Learning six Regional Consultations towards the 2^nd World OER Congress, and integrated into the COL Open Educational Resources: Global Report 2017.

We invite the following list of OER repositories or initiatives that follow open licensing to jin us.