ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, is a leader in the field of Open Educational Resources and manages OER Commons, the world’s leading OER repository.
The partnership between ISKME and CISL has produced some exciting new developments in the space of accessible OER.
"H5P is a free and open-source content collaboration framework based on JavaScript. H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package, and aims to make it easy for everyone to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content."
Hypothesis is a web annotation tool. "Using annotation, we enable sentence-level note taking or critique on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and more. Everything we build is guided by our principles. In particular that it be free, open, non-profit, neutral and lasting to name a few."
"Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its five-minute setup makes launching an online archive or exhibition as easy as launching a blog."
"Design your book from start to finish in just a few easy steps, and create beautiful print books, ebooks, and webbooks for any genre. Easy-to-use software that lets you design and produce your book with just a few clicks. Create ebooks and PDFs to submit to Kindle, iBooks, IngramSpark, Kobo, Nook, and more."
"A free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of non-linear ways."
A Wordpress theme that makes collaborative curation easy. "Visitors to the site can upload any image, and provide a name for credit, select categories to organize them, add tags, and provide information to credit the source of the found images." Developed by Alan Levine.
Explore an emerging collection of techtools for education and consider adding to the collection. This resources uses a SPLOT to enable collaborative sharing of tools and concepts.