Open Education Handbook/OER communities and interest groups

Europe

 * Open Education Europa
 * The University of Southampton - has a large OER repository
 * The University of Nottingham - has a large OER repository
 * The University of Oxford - has several OER sites, including http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk
 * The Open University has OpenLearn
 * The textbook project "L3T" (textbook for learning and teaching with technologies") is a prizewinning CC BY-SA project in German language, its second version was collaboratively developed within 7 days and more than 250 people

US and Australia

 * "Copyright for Educators" courses aimed at primary school teachers and librarians in the US and Australia. While there is a jurisdiction-specific focus, they provide a great grounding for anyone in the teaching space

Global South

 * The African Virtual University
 * OERu
 * MIT OpenCourseWare
 * Various initiatives in Utah
 * Temoa in Latin America
 * CORE
 * Siyavula Education in South Africa
 * National Repository of Open Educational Resources in India
 * OER Africa

Groups of people or individuals interested in OER

 * OER-Discuss mailing list
 * Open Knowledge Foundation Open Education Working Group
 * OER research hub
 * SCORE fellows
 * OER Asia
 * OER Advocacy mailing list
 * OER University
 * School of Open Google Group
 * UNESCO OER community
 * Educause Openness Constituent Group
 * Open Courseware Consortium
 * OER Community at Athabasca University
 * OER Forum
 * WikiEducator
 * P2PU Community
 * Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)