Knowledge is there to be shared
Open-Of-Course is a multilingual community portal for free online courses and tutorials. By "free" we not only mean free as in "free beer" but also published as open content. The focus is on educational information where people can benefit of in daily life.
Most of the courses offered here at the moment are related to computers, internet and learning languages. In the future we hope to offer more content on things like getting a job, business, hobbies, earning or saving money, self improvement, etc. Open-Of-Course is based on Moodle, an open source electronic learning environment (ELO). Our portal is free for everyone to use. It is financed by advertisements and donations.
Open of Course Community
When you register at Open-Of-Course you become part of a self-supporting community. All our courses have fora, where people can communicate and help each other.
So if you join us, we hope you will become an active community member. Everyone has knowledge and skills that can help others. If there is a subject where you have good knowledge off, we would like to invite you to volunteer on helping open-of-course grow:
We are looking especially for:
Language coordinators for all languages, except for English and Dutch: your tasks will be finding open content educational material in the language of your choice and add it to our system and coaching translators for existing courses to other languages.
Translators who like to translate existing courses to other languages.
Course developers who want to share their knowlegde and add their own content to our portal.
Forum admins who want to admin one or more of our fora
If you are interested, you can contact us for more information through info@open-of-course.org.
Open Content
Human knowledge does only have value if it can be shared. That is why Open-Of-Course only publishes educational information that is published as open content. Open content makes it possible to share educational information, because the licenses explicitly allow that. Licenses you see here are mainly gpl and creative commons licenses. They give users the right to share our courses with others, print the material and spread it, etc.
