Here are some links on open education (much of which was taken from this Wikipedia article 
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* Course on Open Education
* Open Education Consortium
An example of early use of the internet in Open Education is the OpenCourseWare program. Similar to the [Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities] from the Open Access movement, are the goals and intentions from Open Education specified in the Cape Town Open Education Declaration.
MOOC is a more recent form of online course development getting more attention since the fall of 2011 which was followed by a number of non-certificate-granting programs, including edX, Coursera and Udacity. See Open Education - The Classroom, Philosophical Underpinnings, English Beginnings, The American Experience, Controversies Questions and Criticisms