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.
” 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…
“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…
“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……
“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…
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…
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!…