Volume 24, Issue 1, 2009 of Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, on "Open Educational Resources" is now available on open access as an online journal - courtesy of the Open University UK and Routledge.
Introduction
Introduction
Anne Gaskell Editor
Editorial
Open Educational Resources: reviewing initiatives and issues
Susan D’Antoni
Context and catalyst
A decade of development…
David Wiley; Seth Gurrell
The unwalled garden: growth of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, 2001–2008
Steve Carson
Institutional vision and initiatives
Challenges in the adoption and use of OpenCourseWare: experience of the United Nations University
Brendan F. D. Barrett; Velma I. Grover; Tomasz Janowski; Hanneke van Lavieren; Adegboyega Ojo; Philipp Schmidt
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OpenCourseWare
Sukon Kanchanaraksa; Ira Gooding; Brian Klaas; James D. Yager
The road to Free and Open Educational Resources at the University of the Western Cape: a personal and institutional journey
Derek Keats
Re-invigorating openness at The Open University: the role of Open Educational Resources
Brenda Gourley; Andy Lane
OpenER, a Dutch initiative in Open Educational Resources
Robert Schuwer; Fred Mulder
National initiative
Open Educational Resources in India’s national development
M.S. Vijay Kumar
International consortium
The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth
Paul West; John Daniel Pages
Key issue
Permission granted: open licensing for educational resources
Ahrash N. Bissell
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