Eliademy Starts the Crowdsourcing of Open Online Courses

Helsinki, April 14, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Eliademy announces the crowdsourcing of OER (Open Educational Resources) courses under CC licenses BY-NC-SA.

Eliademy is an e-learning platform which allows instructors to create, share and manage courses online easily. From now on, Eliademy gives the opportunity to instructors to make their courses’ material available to all worldwide so that other instructors can copy, modify, improve, adapt and reuse it with their own audience, for non-commercial purposes only. The 10 000s educators using Eliademy already have access to the OER online courses available in the catalog and anyone can create an account on Eliademy in few minutes and immediately start using the OER.

"We want to create the largest OER courses database on the planet and we invite all teachers to co create those materials on Eliademy"

Sotiris Makrygiannis, CEO and Founder of Eliademy

"We want to create the largest OER courses database on the planet and we invite all teachers to co create those materials on Eliademy", says Sotiris Makrygiannis, founder and CEO of Eliademy.

This initiative is based on Eliademy’s team belief that education should be available to all anywhere, anytime. Within the next decade, tablets will be used in most of the classes, which will contribute to the democratization of education as schools and pupils won’t rely on copyrighted expensive school books anymore. It will also represent a huge environmental progress. Eliademy’s team consider that the world needs to get prepared and provide as many open educational resources as possible so that everyone can have access to education freely.

With more than 4000 users daily on Eliademy, this initiative will rapidly grow and provide more and more open educational resources to teachers all around the world. For Eliademy’s CEO, Sotiris Makrygiannis, by the end of the year 2015 the catalog of OERs will have around 5.000 courses to be taken into use by the global audience.