This document provides examples of open educational resources (OER) initiatives in Asia. It lists OER organizations, repositories, projects and policies for several Asian countries including Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates. Many of these examples involve government ministries of education or universities opening up access to educational content and resources through online repositories, courses, or policies promoting O
14. Cambodia = Open Educational Resources (OER)
Cambodia blog, managed by Ministry of Education,
Youth and Sport (MoEYS), Cambodia!
http://oer.moeys.gov.kh/
16. Chinese Open Resources for
Education (CORE)
Promotes closer interaction and open sharing of educational resources between Chinese and international universities
http://www.core.org.cn/en/index.htm
17. China Education and Research
Network
• China Education and Research Network
(CERNET), the nationwide academic network, is
funded by the Chinese government, managed
by the Ministry of Education (MoE),
constructed and operated by Tsinghua
University etc, and is the largest non-profit
network in China.Currently, CERNET has 10
regional centers, 38 provincial nodes, and the
national center is located at Tsinghua
University. More than 2000 universities,
education organizations and research institutes
connect with CERNET and the number of end
users is greater than 20 million.
• CERNET has high speed connection to other
Chinese research networks including CSTNET.
CERNET also has several global connection links
to North America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific
with 11 Gbps bandwidth in total.As an
important national educational and research
infrastructure, CERNET supports many key
national network applications, including online
recruiting for universities entrance, distance
learning, digital library, grids for education and
research, etc.
18. Smart Learning Institute of Beijing
Normal University (SLIBNU)
• Smart Learning Institute (SLI) is
affiliated to Beijing Normal University
(BNU), and serves as an experimental
platform comprising scientific
research, technology development
and education. SLI is also a joint
venture between BNU and Elernity.
• SLI focuses on researching learning
patterns under ICT environments,
designing smart learning
environments and building platforms
that enable life-long learning and
support the various, personalized and
differentiated learning styles of
digital learners.
19. China: Belt and Road International
Community for Open Educational
Resource
http://sli.bnu.edu.cn/en/Belt___Road/
21. Cyberport = Member of Open
Education Consortium
• Cyberport is a creative digital community with a cluster of
technology and digital content tenants.
• It is managed by Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company
Limited which is wholly owned by the Hong Kong SAR Government.
• With a vision to establish itself as a leading information and
communications technology (ICT) hub in the Asia-Pacific region,
Cyberport is committed to facilitating the local economy by
nurturing ICT industry start-ups and entrepreneurs, driving
collaboration to pool resources and create business opportunities,
and accelerating ICT adoption through strategic initiatives and
partnerships.
• Equipped with an array of state-of-the-art ICT facilities and a
cutting-edge broadband network, the Cyberport community is
home to four grade-A intelligent office buildings, a five-star design
hotel, and a retail entertainment complex.
23. National Taiwan Ocean University
(Member of Open Education Consortium)
• National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) was established in 1953 as Provincial Taiwan Maritime
Technology College. Eleven years later, in 1964, we became a maritime college that offered
bachelor's and master's degrees in various maritime fields. During this period, the college was
supported by the Taiwan Provincial Government of the Republic of China. In 1979, we became a
national institution, and were renamed the National Taiwan College of Marine Science and
Technology. A decade later, in 1989, the college became a full-fledged university.
• At present, NTOU has six colleges - Maritime Science and Management, Life Sciences, Ocean
Science and Resource, Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as
Humanities and Social Sciences. These Colleges house a total of 28 undergraduate departments and
graduate institutes.
• As we look at the progress over the last 52 years, the University has undergone great growth and
change and is now recognized as one of the nation's most importantcenters of learning and
scholarship, especially in the marine sciences and maritime studies.
• Responding to the changing needs of society and the widening interests of our students, we are
developing into a comprehensive university with a unique maritime focus. We aim to be an
internationally known institution of higher education. Toward this end, our social sciences and
liberal arts programs are developing as a core part of education at NTOU. The University is rapidly
moving toward providing a positive learning environment and culture for intellectual and personal
growth, with ocean interests as our unique characteristic.
24. Cyprus = Eastern Mediterranean
University
https://www.emu.edu.tr/en/academics/opencourseware/1332
35. Pratham Books: a Creative Commons
case study
Pratham Books is a nonprofit children's
book publishing house in India that
uses CC licenses to further distribution,
translation and reuse of its works. Its
mission is simple, "A Book in Every
Child’s Hand," and it has two parts: one
is to create more reading matter such
that there is more material available
for children to read, and the second is
really a corollary – to be able to get
books to where children need it the
most, which means that the books
need to be culturally and linguistically
relevant and must be in forms that
foster inclusiveness.
https://prathambooks.org/
37. IT For Change - Bengaluru
https://www.itforchange.net/
All content (except where explicitly stated) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License for widescale, free reproduction and translation.
46. International University of Iran - Farabi Institute
of Higher Education Farabi Open Courseware
http://farabihe.ir/
47. Iran: Bahá’í Institute for Higher
Education
http://www.bihe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=146&Itemid=236
48. Iran: Shahid Beheshti University
• Shahid Beheshti University
was established in 1959 as
the National University of
Iran. The University offers
more than 127 programs at
Master's and more than 65
at Ph.D. levels. As an MIT
OCW Translation Affiliate it
has translated 64 courses
during 2006-2009 into
Persian that also have direct
links on the MIT OCW
homepage to the Shahid
Beheshti-translated version.
49. The Open University of Israel
https://www.openu.ac.il/
Through Pe'er portal (Pe'er is the Hebrew acronym for "Opening the Treasures
of the Mind"), the OUI provides free access to tens of academic textbooks in
electronic format, most of them in Hebrew, few in Russian, Arabic and English.
50. MEITAL- Inter-University Center for e-
Learning - Israel
MEITAL's main projects is
MAOR - Metadata and
Objects Repository. The
database is accessible to
all the Israeli educational
institutes, includes diverse
and accessible learning
objects, and provides
tools for searching and
locating objects to be
used in learning
frameworks.
https://meital.iucc.ac.il/en/home-3/
53. Center for Open Education, Hokkaido
University (HU-OEC) Japan
Center for Open Education at
Hokkaido University (HU-OEC) is
an organization to promote
open education around the
campus. This organization
develops OERs for the
improvement of education in
the university by introducing
blended- learning and online
learning.
54. Center for E-Learning and Open Educational Resources
Jordan University of Science and Technology
http://www.just.edu.jo/Centers/justlearn/Pages/Open-Educational-Resources.aspx
55. Arabic OER Platform: Jordan Open
Source Association
http://jordanopensource.org/article/arabic-oer-platform-start
56. OpenMed - Opening up Education in South-
Mediterranean countries (OpenMed)
https://openmedproject.eu/
65. One Mongolia: Building an open
network for education in Mongolia
https://oerknowledgecloud.org/content/one-mongolia-building-open-
network-education-mongolia
66. Kyung Hee Cyber University, Mongolia
KHCU was evaluated as 2007 Best Online University by the Ministry of
Education. Member of Open Education Consortium
69. Seoul National University Korea
https://www.nie.edu.sg/news-detail/oer-seminar-on-ict-innovations-sharings-from-
south-korea-and-singapore
70. Korea
• The history of OER in Korea began with the adoption of
Open Source Software (OSS) in 2004 in developing NEIS
to handle the administrative information relevant to
the affairs of students, teachers, and of primary and
secondary schools. It was reported as the largest
governmental OSS project ever taken in the world. The
collaboration for promoting OSS among the Republic of
Korea, China, and Japan has been consolidated
considerably since the Republic of Korea developed the
NEIS. Promotion of OSS further extended from merely
an adoption of the open source system software to UX,
and the My SQL data base management system, to the
applications of virtual servers.
73. Oman = Higher College of Technology
http://www.hct.edu.om/about/the-college/event-gallery/oer-
workshop
74. Omani universities can utilise open educational
resources available freely on the Internet
https://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Stories-Files/Open-Education-3wrv
75. Muscat -
Modern College of Business & Science (MCBS)
https://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Oman/MCBS-to-conduct-workshop-on-
Open-Educational-Resources-on-May-2-58n0
78. Pakistan National Commission for
UNESCO
http://www.moent.gov.pk/mopttm/userfiles1/file/2nd%20World%20Open%20E
ducational%20Resources%20(OER)_docx.pdf