About Orthogate Press

Orthogate Press operates on the model of a knowledge-based economy, to which we contribute by providing peer-reviewed publications unfettered by the desire to commodify thought or to restrict access to ideas.

We are dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge and research through open access digital journals and monographs, as well as through new electronic media.

One of our mandates is to publish innovative and experimental works that challenge established canons, subjects, and formats.

We plan to develop series that contribute to the scholarship of established and new disciplines. As we are dedicated to making Orthogate Press publications accessible to a broad readership through open access technologies, we cultivate the areas of open-, distance-, and e-learning.

Open Educational Resources…

Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. It is the leading trend in distance education/open and distance learning domain as a consequence of the openness movement.[1]

The development and promotion of open educational resources is often motivated by a desire to provide an alternate or enhanced educational paradigm.[2]

Creative Commones License…

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. A CC license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created. CC provides an author flexibility (for example, they might choose to allow only non-commercial uses of his/her own work) and protects the people who use or redistribute an author’s work from concerns of copyright infringement as long as they abide by the conditions that are specified in the license by which the author distributes the work.

The future is bright.

In October 2014 the Open Knowledge Foundation approved the Creative Commons CC BY, CC BY-SA, and CC0 licenses as conformant with the “Open Definition” for content and data.[2][3][4]

The Movement…

The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to access high-quality education. This shift in educational practice is not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed content; it’s about participation and co-creation. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.

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