What is Open Education? 

Open Education describes the people, places, and resources making learning opportunities available for anyone, anytime.

What is the Open Education Portal?

The Open Education Portal is a gateway to the best Open Educational Resources (OER) and services from around the world.

What are Open Educational Resources?

OER are digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

What is the OWL Institute?

The Open Education Portal is underwritten by the Open World Learning Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the research and development of open education.  

What does the OWL Institute do?

• Support communities' use and development of open education • Establish self-sustaining, community-based open education centers • Provide digital literacy programming and community outreach • Research best practices in open education • Perform scientifically-based research of learning technologies, products and services • Develop open source educational tools • Produce standards-compliant open education courses and resources • Conduct research and advocacy in the area of digital and educational law and regulation