African Virtual University
The African Virtual University (AVU) is a Pan African Intergovernmental Organization. The greatest asset of the AVU is its ability to work across borders and language barriers in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa. As the leading Pan African eLearning Network, the AVU has acquired the largest eLearning network in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa with more than 53 Partner Institutions in 27 countries.
China Open Resources for Education
China Open Resources for Education (CORE) is a non-profit organization. Her mission is to promote closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities, which CORE envisions as the future of world education. CORE includes 10 Lead Universities.
Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV Online
The flexibility of time and place is one of the most important advantages of the online courses offered by FGV, neutralizing barriers such as time and distance. But there are other advantages, such as the development of self established timing compatible with each student's needs, the employment of a case method system, focused in the Brazilian reality, as well as the easy access to the knowledge resources schools and other units at FGV and the reductions of costs and efficiency gains.
Japan OCW Consortium
April 20, 2006 Japan Opencourseware Consortium(JOCW) has been established.
Aim of the consortium : To assist and disseminate the OCW activity, which is an open and a free publication of formal course materials of higher educational organizations, through mainly exchanging information among consortium members. They will do their effort to encourage interchanging know-hows and opinions among not only Japanese’s organizations related to the OCW, but also foreign organizations by participating the OCW Consortium as an Affiliate member.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the oldest and largest school of public health in the world. Every day the School works to keep millions around the world safe from illness and injury by pioneering new research, deploying its knowledge and expertise in the field, and educating tomorrow's scientists and practitioners in the global defense of human life.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a world-class teaching and research institution, committed to the advancement of knowledge and education of students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. MIT is independent, coeducational, and privately endowed. Its five schools and one college encompass 33 academic departments, as well as numerous interdisciplinary centers and programs whose work cuts across traditional departmental boundaries.
Netease Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
NETEASE'S MISSION: To deliver "Power to the People" by using the latest Internet technologies to enhance meaningful information sharing and exchange. COMPANY OVERVIEW: Through our subsidiaries and contracts with our affiliates, NetEase operates a leading interactive online and wireless community in China and is a major provider of Chinese language content and services through our online games, wireless value-added services and Internet portal businesses.
Open University Netherlands
Open Universiteit Nederland, which welcomed its first students in September 1984, is an independent government-funded institute for distance learning at university level. The mission of the Open Universiteit Nederland is to make higher education accessible to anyone with the necessary aptitudes and interests, regardless of formal qualifications.
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Through technology-based distance programs, Tecnologico de Monterrey is a pioneer in distance education with more than 19 years of experience through its Virtual University, reaching 29 countries. TEMOA is a knowledge hub that eases a public and multilingual catalog of Open Educational Resources (OER) to improve its discoverability over the internet and to ease the task to educators to adopt them in educational practices.
TU Delft
Delft University of Technology is the largest and most comprehensive university of engineering sciences in the Netherlands. TU Delft develops technologies for future generations, focusing on sustainability, safety and economic vitality.
Tufts University
Founded in 1852, Tufts University is recognized among the premier universities in the United States. Tufts enjoys a global reputation for academic excellence and for the preparation of socially engaged students as leaders for a changing world. Recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a "RU/VH: Research University (very high research activity)" in basic and clinical sciences, Tufts provides programs that foster interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration in liberal arts, environmental and life sciences, engineering, and international affairs.
Universia is a Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese network that promotes and facilitates the integration and development of university members in the knowledge and information society, as well as in the telecommunications sector. Universia's mission is to offer the Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese university community the optimum mix of content and services so as to facilitate the creation of a common forum for higher learning through training, culture, research, and collaboration with the business world.
Universidad Politécnica Madrid
The Technical University of Madrid (UPM) was founded en 1971 integrating the Architectural and the Engineering Schools in existence in Madrid at that time. The Technical University of Madrid is well known for his leadership in different technological researching fields and for its wide and open relations with the business and productive world.
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine is a top-ranked university dedicated to research, scholarship and community service. Founded in 1965, UCI is among the fastest-growing University of California campuses, with more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 1,400 faculty members. The second-largest employer in dynamic Orange County, UCI contributes an annual economic impact of $3.3 billion.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is one of the world's leading public research universities. The University of Michigan is home to 19 schools and colleges offering top-ranked academic programs and diverse cultural and social opportunities in a stimulating intellectual environment. The University is well known for its commitment to public engagement and has a myriad of community-based research projects that are national models.
University of the Western Cape
UWC considers free and open educational resources the buildling blocks of a higher education environment in the global knowledge society and is the first African university to adopt a free/open content and courseware strategy. UWC is a key member of the African university network AVOIR, which develops free/open source software solutions, including tools to support open courseware based learning.
