• Create and distribute high quality open educational resources
• Research best practices in open education
• Perform scientifically based research of educational technologies, products and services
• Develop and support open source education tools and systems
• Support people, groups and communities in the use of advanced education technologies
• Support the development of sustainable open education centers
OWL Vision:
Post-Industrial Education
About us
The regulations that govern much of education today, from pre-kindergarten to higher education, are focused on supporting the welfare of the educational institution, not the individual learner. They were written for an earlier model, the factory model of education in which the teacher is the center of all instruction and all learners must advance at the same rate, despite their varying needs or abilities.
—Report of the Web-Based Commission to the President and the Congress of the United States, Dec. 2000, 103.
Founded in 2002 to help people find and create new ways of learning and teaching, the Open World Learning Institute is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 corporation based in Duluth, MN, USA. Dedicated to the love of learning, OWL delivers a world of free and open educational resources to everyone.