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.
Please consider sharing your expertise by adding an entry.
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.
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…
“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…
“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…
“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…