This is a catalogue of instances of the Open Web covering applications and platforms that can be relevant for teaching and learning.
It also includes resources and references that can help people understand what the Open Web is.
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Tim Berners-Lee envisioned the World Wide Web as “an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries.”
OWLTEH looks at online infrastructures that somehow enable this, with a particular focus on how they can be used within educational contexts. While the concept is often associated with open source, open standards or open licences, we welcome different interpretations of the concept and understand it as a continuum that can encompass different levels of openness.
TRAVIS GO is an app for simple and collaborative annotation of video and audio material. TRAVIS GO allows to easily work with audiovisual media artifacts (e.g. film sequences,…
” MHz Curationist is an ecosystem for collecting and sharing cultural materials from the Creative Commons and public domain. We aim to build connections and deepen cultural awareness…
“WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE GLOBAL DIGITAL LIBRARY? The GDL collects existing high quality open educational reading resources, and makes them available on web, mobile and for…
What is the Wayback Machine? The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is a service that allows people to visit archived versions of Web sites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine…
“SlideWiki is an online slideshow tool that offers users the chance to create and collaborate on slides, assessments and to share content as structured open educational resources using…
“WITHCulture is a platform that provides access to digital cultural heritage items from different repositories and offers a number of added-value services for the creative reuse and intelligent…
“The Remixer Machine is a web app that aims to provide people with a visual voice, especially to those who might not consider themselves “arty” – or who…
“ZoteroBib helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software. It’s brought to you by the team behind…
“HTML5 UP makes spiffy HTML5 site templates that are: Fully Responsive Built on intelligent HTML5 + CSS3 Super Customizable 100% Free under the Creative Commons”
“Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks Have a repository full of Jupyter notebooks? With Binder, open those notebooks in an executable environment, making your…
“Laverna is a JavaScript note-taking web application with a Markdown editor and encryption support. It’s built to be an open source alternative to Evernote. The application stores all…
TimeMapper is an open-source project of Open Knowledge Foundation Labs enabling users to create timelines where events are linked to geographical location.
Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer browser with support for the dat:// protocol. “We believe the Web is at its best when it empowers creation and encourages participation. That’s…
“Editoria is the open source, browser-based books production tool developed by the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) in collaboration with University of California Press and California Digital Library. Editoria…
The Rebus Projects platform is “a custom-built project management tool for collaboration on Open Educational Resources (OER) publishing projects around the world.” During the beta stage, they are…
“Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron. Discourse received funding from…
“WikiToLearn is a portal that aims to create free collaborative and readily accessible textbooks. Our philosophy can be summarized as “Knowledge only grows if shared“. On this platform,…
“Loomio is decision-making software designed to assist groups with the collaborative decision-making process. It is a free software web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up…
Zenodo is a repository created by CERN and OpenAIRE that enables researchers in any subject area to archive and share their work. All research outputs from all fields…
“uMap let you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site.” Choose the layers of your map Add POIs: markers, lines, polygons……
“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…
“Mastodon is a distributed and federated social network, with microblogging features similar to Twitter but administered as a decentralized federation of independently operated servers running free software. Each…
“Etherpad allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player editor that runs in your browser. Write articles, press releases, to-do lists, etc. together…
As the Internet Archive (archive.org) states on its front page, the “Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more”. With the…
Annotate the web, with anyone, anywhere. Use open-source Hypothesis annotation to hold discussions, read socially, organize your research, and take personal notes on any webpage, PDF or EPUB….
Level up your programming skills Exercism is a free and open source website that allows anyone to work on programming practice problems and get feedback on their code!…
The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data…
SPLOT tools are online publishing tools aimed at making it as easy as possible to post content to the open web. One key principles underpinning the design of…